Romney seen boasting DC ties, federal dollars in 2002 video
{mosads}”Mitt Romney lobbied for earmarks, boasted that he got more earmarks than anyone in history, but then attacks others for earmarks,” said Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley. “Mitt Romney bragged about using his great Washington-Insider establishment connections to get record-setting amounts of earmarks — but then attacks others for being insiders.”
Democrats dispatched the head of the state party in Pennsylvania, where Santorum served as a senator, to hit Romney as someone who will say anything to get elected. And the Democratic National Committee quickly clipped together a Web video contrasting Romney denouncing earmarks, spending and “Washington insiders” with the recently uncovered video.
Romney’s campaign said Romney had done what all governors do, pointing out that he supports permanently banning earmarks and calling them “a symbol of what’s wrong with Washington.”
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“Every state budget in the country is dependent on federal funding, and every governor in the country makes requests for funding, but governors do not get to decide how Congress appropriates money,” said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul.
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