Adviser to Romney and Brown Mocks It Gets Better on Twitter

[William769]

A campaign adviser to presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Scott Brown authored a Twitter feed that mocked the It Gets Better campaign after the U.S. senator from Massachusetts was criticized for not contributing a video to the series against antigay bullying.

The Boston Globe reports on the unmasking of Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior campaign adviser to Brown and Romney, as the person behind the “CrazyKhazei” Twitter account. The sarcastic account pretended to represent the thoughts of Alan Khazei, a Democrat who plans to challenge Brown next year.

Following recent criticism toward Brown, the only Republican member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, for not making an It Gets Better video, the "CrazyKhazei" feed said, “I promise to devote all my time in office to making gay videos. Shame on Scott Brown for focusing on jobs!”

Another tweet from July 31 read, “Just got back from sunny California. Thanks to all the elitists there for donating to my campaign."


http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/08/25/Adviser_to_Romney_and_Brown_Mocks_It_Gets_Better_on_Twitter/

[qb]

1. May these idiots continue to believe they can hide behind a user name.

It's so sweet when their bigotry is exposed for all to see.

[William769]

2. A comment posted on the Advocate pretty much sums it up.

"Typical cowardly bully behavior- hide behind a fake name and cast insults. I have a deep disrespect for a man who will not stand behind his own words."

[chemp]

3. Brown is focusing on jobs?

how?

[krispos42]

4. “I promise to devote all my time in office to making gay videos..."

“I promise to devote all my time in office to making gay videos. Shame on Scott Brown for focusing on jobs!”

If this is Scott Brown focusing exclusively on jobs, then there's nothing more that needs to be said, then.

[Iggo]

5. Damn. I'm gonna miss my New Balance shoes. (n/t)

[yellowcanine]

6. 'Fehrnstrom...told the Globe the account was his “way of lightening things up”...'

Alrighty then! Just a joke! Never mind the making fun of trying to stop anti-gay bullying and pretending I was somebody else while doing it - an opposing candidate no less - It is just a joke! Hopefully this dirtbag gets fired by both Romney and Brown.


Whole quote:

Fehrnstrom admitted to being responsible, where he told the Globe the account was his “way of lightening things up” in a world where some people “take our politics too seriously.”



Sorry Alan - you can't get by with anti-gay bigotry anymore and put it down to a "joke". No one is laughing.