CASCO, Maine — There are nine walks for MS in Maine this weekend. Each participant has a motivating factor that drives them to participate in the walk. One of those people is Melissa Wilkinson of Casco.

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This Saturday, April 28, she will join her Burns & McDonnell co-workers and friends who have rallied around her in support of finding a cure for Walk MS, a 6 mile walk in Scarborough, ME., part of an overall effort to create a world free of MS. Last night Melissa was asked to be the Ambassador for the walk, so she will proudly give a speech prior to the day’s event. This race is one of nine simultaneous walks occurring across Maine. Her team, which has raised almost $3,000 to date Microsoft Windows 7 Key, has 26 walkers including 10 co-workers from Burns & McDonnell working on Central Maine Power’s Maine Power Reliability Program. Melissa is very motivated for this walk McAfee Product Key, with all the money going directly toward research, providing education, and also alleviating the financial burden that MS bring upon individuals each day.

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NEW YORK – It’s been a whirlwind, New York City kind of day for Mitt Romney,  including a celebrity funeral, slices of pizza and a curse-word screaming -protester.

The presumptive GOP nominee cris-crossed the island of Manhattan, holding a private meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the Upper East Side, attending TV legend Mike Wallace’s memorial service on the West Side, and then scooting downtown to pick up a few pizzas with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, later delivering them to a SoHo firehouse.

The purpose of the New York visit was to mark the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s killing, and Romney and Giuliani delivered remarks outside Engine 24/Ladder 5, where 11 firemen died during the 9/11 terrorist attacks and where the former mayor held his first press conference following the attacks, setting up a temporary command center at the firehouse.

The two were at first shouted down by a protester, who screamed the F word at Romney and called him a “racist.”

But the press conference was marked more by Romney’s appearance with Giuliani.

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Romney, who recalled visiting Manhattan in December after the attacks, bringing the Olympic torch to burn in the city on Christmas Day, didn’t resist repeating his criticism of President Obama’s campaign for suggesting in a video that Romney himself may not have ordered the attack on bin Laden.

“I think it’s totally appropriate for the President to express to the American people the view that he has, that he had an important role in taking out Osama Bin Laden. I think politicizing it was…and trying to draw a distinction between himself and myself was an inappropriate use of the very important event that brought America together, which was the elimination of Osama Bin Laden,” said Romney, who took a few questions from the press before leaving the firehouse.

While staying on message at the solemn firehouse stop, not all of Romney’s day in the Big Apple was quite so serious.

After meeting with Bloomberg – a meeting Romney said included a “very nice chat” that came without an endorsement – the candidate and Giuliani dropped by Joe’s Pizza parlor in the West Village, ordering six pizzas, a variation of cheese, sausage and pepperoni slices, to go.

“Joe, what do we owe you for this?” Mr. Romney asked the restaurant’s owner, Pino Pozzuoli, who insisted that the pizza was on him.

Giuliani quickly chimed in, “If you don’t charge him, it’ll cause trouble.”

Romney forked over the cash — $136 worth, to be sure, plus a tip – and went on his way, balancing a stack of pizza pies out to his waiting motorcade.

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After taking a few questions, Romney was off again – en route to Philadelphia to attend an evening fundraiser.

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Mitt Romney won primaries in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York tonight, the Associated Press reported.

Romney was expected to sweep all five states, where a total of 231 delegates are at stake. Turnout was low in all five states, according to local media reports.

Earlier today Newt Gingrich suggested he might reassess his campaign depending on the results in Delaware, where both Gingrich and wife Callista have spent a great deal of time campaigning. Tonight, after placing a very distant second — taking 27 percent of the vote to Romney’s 56.6 percent, Gingrich echoed that message.

“Callista and I got into this for our grandchildren,” he said. “I want you to know over the next few days we’re going to look realistically at where we are at. We’re going to be in North Carolina all week. I also want to do that as somebody who is a unifier and somebody who is realistic.”

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Romney’s attention has turned to the general election. In his speech tonight in New Hampshire, which will be a swing state in the fall but was not voting today, Romney focused his attacks on President Obama, as he has done in the past several weeks, since Rick Santorum dropped out of the race.

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Goodwin Liu is out. Nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals more than a year ago, Liu was filibustered by Senate Republicans. This week, he asked President Obama to withdraw his judicial nomination. Critics in progressive circles have charged Republicans with hypocrisy over use of the filibuster. But Liu’s nomination was always vulnerable to obstruction, and not only because of his political or judicial outlook. His age was a crucial factor. Had Liu been 59 years old, instead of 39, he would not have been filibustered.

Consider that Liu was the President’s youngest judicial nominee—younger than the next oldest nominee by nearly four years. And given his relative youth, he would have been an obvious candidate for elevation to the Supreme Court. Even if he weren’t elevated, he might well have spent the next 30 to 40 years serving on the 9th Circuit.

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Aside from Liu, none of President Obama’s nominees to the federal appellate courts are under 40. Only two are under 45. On average, Obama’s nominees are more than 54 years old, which is four years older than the nominees under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. But the averages tell only part of the story. Consider these statistics: Of the 50 youngest appellate judges nominated since the Reagan administration, 41 were tapped by Republicans. Of the 30 youngest judges, 28 are Republican nominees; and the 18 youngest are all Republican nominees. By contrast, if you take the 50 oldest judges nominated since Reagan, nearly half of them were nominated by Democrats. For decades now, and as a matter of strategy, Republicans have been nominating younger judges. The real question is why Democrats have been doing just the opposite.

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