Tom House, the Legion's head of pensions, says this is not just about the war pensioners in Harrow and is unsympathetic over the council's financial dilemma.

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Perhaps the more significant, and less noted, event that forced Romney to switch his protective coloring was the resignation in September 2004 of House Speaker Tom Finneran, a staunch social conservative who ruled the Massachusetts House with an iron hand.

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Tom DeLay was House Majority Leader when, you know, Democrats criticized Bush for appearing alongside him while he was under investigation.

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