Andrew Romanoff, a Democratic challenger to Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), was caught by the Denver Post altering a banner photo on his web site to include a black woman standing by his side.
The Photoshop job takes a photo of Romanoff speaking with supporters at a kickoff rally last September and adds a photo of one Andrea Mosby, an African-American woman who was also at the rally, to Romanoff’s side. The campaign also added several more supporters to fill out the crowd.
Both original photos can be found on Romanoff’s Flickr account (here and here), and one of them is on his site’s intro page.
The campaign said it did nothing wrong.
“We’re not putting in someone who wasn’t at the rally. We do nothing that suggests the rally is bigger than it was,” campaign spokesman Roy Teicher told the Post.
“The practice of using Photoshop is absolutely accepted under these circumstances,” he said.
As for the woman who was added in, she said she doesn’t mind.
“It’s quite all right with me. I was there. I talked to Andrew. I am definitely supporting him,” Mosby said.
Romanoff’s campaign also suggested his opponent, Bennet, is ginning up stories for political gain.
“Who’s paying this close attention?” Teicher asked.
