Former Mitt Romney Intern Took Credit For 2002 Gay Rights Flier

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — In an October 2007 article in a gay newspaper, a former volunteer for Mitt Romney’s 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign claimed credit for writing a pro-gay rights flier that a top aide to the Republican candidate now asserts was never authorized.

Aaron Maloy, a former Cape Cod political activist and blogger, told Bay Windows that he put together the now-infamous pink leaflet that was distributed, ostensibly, by the Romney campaign during a 2002 gay pride event. The leaflet proclaimed that “all citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference,” a statement of gay rights that has since proved difficult to explain for Romney and his aides.

After Sunday morning’s Republican presidential debate, Romney’s top spokesman, Eric Ferhnstrom, told The Huffington Post that he had no idea “where those pink fliers came from.”

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