Romney’s Team Grows: Key 2008 Advisor Returns

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A key adviser to Mitt Romney during his unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid is back on board, his PAC announced Monday. Lanhee Chen will serve as the policy director of Romney’s PAC, Free and Strong America.

Chen tweeted early Monday morning: “It’s good to be back with Team Romney.”

Chen was Romney’s domestic policy director in 2008. Prior to that, Chen served as a health policy adviser to former President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, and went on to work as a senior policy aide at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

More recently, he was deputy campaign manager for Steve Poizner’s bid for the Republican nomination in California’s 2010 gubernatorial election. Poizner was defeated in the primary by Meg Whitman.

Romney has been on the road lately, setting out his plan to win the Republican nomination.

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