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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

TAKE THAT: Obama Campaign Hits Romney for Gay Rights Flip-Flop!


Earlier this week, Mitt Romney's spokesperson disavowed a 2002 flyer allegedly distributed during Boston's Gay Pride festivities, saying the flyer was not created by the campaign during Romney's run for governor.

Romney_flyerNow, Buzzfeed has spoken with a former Romney aide says 'Gay Pride' flyer was campaign literature: "...a former Romney campaign volunteer who is now a fiscal policy scholar at a conservative think tank told BuzzFeed the flyer calling for 'equal rights' were in fact campaign literature. The Manhattan Institute's Josh Barro told BuzzFeed he was a college intern for Romney's campaign at the wage of $150 per month and the task of answering mail to Romney's running mate, Kerry Healey."
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is hitting Romney for this flip-flop in an email from its LGBT coordinator Jamie Citron.

Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt is responding in a similar fashion: “After Mitt Romney claimed he’d be a stronger advocate for gay rights than Senator Kennedy when he was running for office in Massachusetts, and one day after saying that gays should have ‘full rights,’ Romney’s campaign today disavowed a flier that simply said ‘all citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference,” LaBolt said. “What on that flier does Mitt Romney disagree with?  Does he not believe all Americans should have equal rights? Who is he trying to pander to now? This is why Americans will have trouble trusting Mitt Romney — he doesn’t keep his word.”

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