Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee in the Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election, pushed back sharply against a tough new web video, calling Democratic opponent Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) “pond scum.”
Gomez denounced the video, in which the Republican’s picture is placed next to one of Osama bin Laden, while highlighting his own career at a Navy SEAL.
“I don’t think there’s anything more offensive,” Gomez told a local news reporter. “You know I’ve got four young kids, and they gotta sit there and gotta see an ad with their dad — who served honorably, talk to anybody I served with — whether as a pilot or as a SEAL, anybody I worked with. And for him to be as dirty and low, pond scum, like to put me up next to bin Laden, he’s just gotta be called what he is. It’s that simple.”
Update: Markey’s campaign responds, fires back at Gomez’s “desperate attack.”
