Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, will speak at Mississippi State University on Wednesday and all tickets to the events have been claimed.
The tickets were available on a first-come, first-serve basis, according to Allison Matthews with the MSU public affairs office. A limited number are still available for a simulcast that will take place in Colvard Student’s Union Foster Ballroom. To obtain overflow tickets, visit the MSU Center for Student Activities in the union or call 662-325-2930.
The free event will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium on the MSU campus. It is sponsored by the MSU Student Association, which in the past has hosted former U.S. secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Gen. Colin Powell.
Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, is expected to give his perspective on global issues and key challenges facing America and the world today. A brief question-and-answer will follow, according to Matthews.
Earlier this month, a news report on Yahoo News quoted an unnamed Republican who said if Romney is going to announce his candidacy for president this year, “he needs to pull the trigger in the next couple of weeks.”
“One GOP operative pegged Romney’s speech at Mississippi State University on Jan. 28 as a deadline of sorts,” the report states.
Romney, in addition to 2012, was a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
From 1978 to 1984, Romney was a vice president at Bain & Company Inc. In 1984, he founded Bain Capital, one of the nation’s most successful venture capital and investment companies.
Matthews, in a press release, said that after 5 p.m. Wednesday, the public can park in any legal space on MSU’s campus, as long as it is not reserved or handicapped. No recording devices are permitted, including cell phone cameras, personal cameras or personal video or voice recorders, according to the university.
William Browning was managing editor for The Dispatch until June 2016.
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