WASHINGTON - Beth Myers, who lives in Brookline and graduated from Tufts University, is a longtime Republican. Her start in politics can be traced to Jack’s, a bar between Harvard and Central squares where she waited tables in the 1970s.
Tending bar was future state Treasurer Joe Malone, who in 1979 was preparing to help run the presidential campaign of John Connally, a former Texas governor and Cabinet secretary. Malone enlisted Myers; Charlie Baker, who would run for governor in 2010; and Steve Roche, a former Romney aide who now helps run Restore Our Future, the independent super PAC supporting Romney.
Myers ran the phone banks and was so proficient that she was later hired by a firm to move to Texas and help run part of the operation for Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign in 1980. It was there that she met a Republican strategist named Karl Rove.
“We were great friends then and we’re great friends now,’’ Rove, who went on to become President George W. Bush’s top strategist, said in an interview. “She’s really smart, incredibly meticulous. Very well organized, a lot of integrity. Great internal compass. Works well with other people, and incredibly discreet - all of which are traits that will serve her well in this job.’’
Just wondering what Rove would know about integrity.
After spending about a decade in Texas - where she met her husband, Mark, had two children, and got a law degree at Southern Methodist University - Myers returned to Massachusetts and began working as chief of staff in Malone’s state treasurer’s office....
Treasury officials were convicted of stealing millions during Malone’s tenure, but neither Malone nor Myers was implicated....
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Update: Rubio leaves the door open to VP role
A Romney-Rubio ticket, and Florida goes red again.
