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Thu May 2, 2013, 07:54 PM May 2013

Markey tags Gomez as 'just another Republican' [View all]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/297485-markey-tags-gomez-as-just-another-republican

Rep. Edward Markey, a Democratic nominee for Senate in Massachusetts, is hammering his Republican opponent Gabriel Gomez as "just another Republican" in a new Web video.

The video highlights Gomez's ties to a nonprofit that criticized President Obama's handling of the Osama bin Laden killing, and notes that the group, the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, has ties to the Tea Party.

The group released a video last year that accused the president of jeopardizing national security by leaking information related to the killing.

It features news clips covering the controversial group, for which Gomez acted as spokesman, and closes with Gomez himself on the campaign trail.

"I'm a new kind of Republican," he says. The video follows with the words "not really."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/297485-markey-tags-gomez-as-just-another-republican#ixzz2SBNi2Nyy
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