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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRmoney Spokesperson (former Hooters girl?) who told media NO Abortion questions, has been demoted...
sorry for posting something so tacky/TMZ-ish... but it kinda shines a light on it all...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/romney-colorado-spox-offduty-for-prohibiting-akin-133120.html
(pic from April 2012 Scott Walker article)
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/04/16/family-values-scott-walker-and-his-hooters-campaign/
"Ciara Matthews, the Romney campaign's Colorado communications director, has been asked not to speak to the media after her decision to prohibit a reporter from asking Mitt Romney questions about abortion, sources tell POLITICO.
The restriction was made public yesterday when Shaun Boyd, a reporter for Denver's CBS affiliate, told viewers that the campaign had prohibited her from asking questions about abortion or Rep. Todd Akin during her interview with the candidate. The Obama campaign immediately blasted a video of Boyd's remarks, creating a small firestorm over campaign efforts to restrict the press and side-step discussion of Romney's stance on abortion.
A spokesperson with the Romney campaign told POLITICO yesterday that the campaign did not prohbit questions, and other networks said that their questions were not influenced by the campaign. "This is not how we operate," the spokesperson said. "The matter is being addressed."
The campaign has followed through on that promise: Matthews, a former spokesperson to both Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and one-time Senate candidate Sharron Angle, as well as a former Hooters girl, will remain on staff with the campaign but will no longer deal directly with reporters."
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Somehow I am unsurprised.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Not a whole lot of questions being asked and answered in Mittland.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Blame the communications director. So who did ask about abortion and Akin? And where is that tape?
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)Abortion is so yesterday...
TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)Time to get the orange shorts and cocktail tray ready again.
"Hi guys, what can I get you to drink?"
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)...and demoted to what? Chicken wing server?
randome
(34,845 posts)I'm surprised because otherwise they seem so stupid.
FSogol
(45,524 posts)The revolving door of Romney campaign staff.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)The fantasyland known as the GOP, anyway. Their communications director was a former Hooter's Girl? Nothing against Hooter Girls, but I think there are a lot of highly-qualified people with communications degrees & political experience looking for a job. And they took her? Following the Fox "news" mode, where all you need for talent is a willingness to take your clothes off to become important (i.e, Megyn Kelly stripping in GQ magazine)
BTW, when I say "people with communications degrees & political experience", I'm excluding a certain ex-governor who is currently having problems running her ongoing Big Con...