Hoping to downplay news that he would not appoint a Muslim cabinet member, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney argued on Tuesday that having such a high-ranking official would not help address issues stemming from radical Islam. Appointments based on demographics, he suggested, were ineffective in tackling the problems that group faced.
Just four years earlier, however, Romney issued an executive order in Massachusetts that stressed the opposite.
In June 2003, then-Gov. Romney signed the Diversity and Equal Opportunity Act, which pushed...
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