From ABC News, 12/18/07:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/romney-attended.html
Romney Attended Planned Parenthood Fundraiser in 1994
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports:
Mitt Romney attended a fund-raising reception for Planned Parenthood
in 1994 in conjunction with a $150 donation his wife made to the
organization -- notwithstanding Romney's contention that he had "no
recollection" of the circumstances under which his wife gave money to
the abortion-rights group.
In the photograph obtained by ABC News, Romney and his wife, Ann, are
shown in a yellow-and-white tent chatting with local political
activists, including Nicki Nichols Gamble, who was then president and
CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
Nichols Gamble -- whose back is the camera in the photograph -- told
ABC that the event was a Planned Parenthood fundraising "house party"
in Cohasset, Mass., in June 1994.
At the time, Romney, R-Mass., was locked in a tight Senate campaign
with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and was touting his support for
abortion rights.
That event, Nichols Gamble said, was the occasion where Ann Romney
wrote her $150 check -- drafted on a joint checking account she had
with her husband -- to Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts.
"They were both there, and I remember very well chatting with both of
them, and talking about his support for the pro-choice agenda," she
said.
"We talked about the fact that he was taking a pro-choice position on
the issues, and we were very pleased about that."
When asked by reporters earlier this year whether the former governor
had ever donated money to Planned Parenthood, the Romney campaign said
no.
Aides subsequently conceded that Romney's wife, Ann, wrote a $150
check to the group in 1994.
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Hmmmmmmmmmm ain't that interesting
Harry
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