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Hayes: Mitt Fires Back

7:07 AM, Dec 20, 2007 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES
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Des Moines, Iowa
Kevin Madden, spokesman for Mitt Romney's campaign, has responded to this post on Fred Thompson and campaign finance reform. Thompson accused Romney of flip-flopping on campaign finance reform. "Governor Romney supported McCain-Feingold," Thompson said at a press availability after a town hall in Cedar Rapids. "He's changed his position on that just as he has so many other things. He supported public financing in Massachusetts, which no one who supported McCain-Feingold even goes that far. So, I think we need to have him answer a few questions about what he really believes."

Says Madden: "Governor Romney has supported transparency and accountability, but he wholeheartedly agrees with conservative activists across the country that the McCain-Feingold-Thompson campaign finance legislation authored by Fred Thompson was an abomination that restricted the First Amendment rights of conservative advocacy groups who wanted their voice heard in the political process.

"Governor Romney will not relent in his disagreement with Fred Thompson's legislation that hindered the conservative movement's role in the political process."

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