Mitt Romney has already picked the man who will run his transition team if he wins in November. Mark Leavitt, a former Health and Human Services secretary for President George W. Bush, will head what the campaign has dubbed “Project Ready.”
This isn’t the first time Romney and Leavitt have teamed up. From USA Today:
Before he joined the Bush administration, Leavitt was governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003. Leavitt tapped Romney to turn around the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which was having trouble attracting corporate sponsors and raising money for the Games.
Romney is starting this phase of the campaign quite early. Obama began to prepare in August 2008. “Romney aides note that the Presidential Transitions Act was amended in 2010 to encourage earlier and more robust planning for a possible changeover,” the Washington Post reported.
