The campaign of an apparent birther running for U.S. House from Massachusetts today apologized for announcing the endorsement of Sen-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) without Brown’s permission.
Bill Hudak, an attorney who campaigned for Brown, released a statement today apologizing for issuing a press release, which had fake quotes from Brown, announcing his endorsement.
“Scott and I had several conversations where he pledged to provide support for me after the election. However, as a person new to politics, I took those conversations as permission to move and jumped the gun in the heat of the moment,” Hudak said in the statement.
In the days before the 2008 presidential election, Hudak had put up large signs on his property showing Barack Obama as Osama bin Laden, surrounded by the words “lazy,” “socialist” and “Marxist.”
After he took down the signs in response to police complaints, he told his local paper that he believed Obama was born in Kenya.
But in his statement released today, Hudak accused “left wing bloggers” of “smear tactics” for calling him a birther.
Those bloggers “falsely denigrate and accuse Senator-elect Brown of being of that belief,” Hudak said. “I believe [Obama] was born in the United States, and accusations that he was not are unsupported nonsense and non-issues to the business of our country,”
The two newspapers who reported his comments about Obama’s birthplace told Dan Kennedy of Media Nation that Hudak never asked for a correction.
Although he apologized, Hudak used the statement to remind Brown of his promise to help his challenge of Rep. John Tierney (D-MA).
“I look forward to taking Scott up on his pledge to help me, but will let him dictate when that support should be communicated,” he said.
(H/T The Hill)
