Romney’s on-going auto bailout dance now pissing off Tea Partiers too.
High-profile hardline ‘border’ Sheriff Paul Babeu has been the toast of the national anti-immigration movement and he’s running for Congress this year on the Republican ticket. (You may remember him as the guy in John McCain’s ‘danged fence’ commercial in 2010.)
But now he’s been accused of threatening to deport his undocumented male lover. No word yet on whether he’s remaining in the congressional race or as Mitt Romney’s state co-chair.
Only days ago, right-wing rising star Sheriff Paul Babeu appeared at CPAC. Video after the jump … Read More
Romney campaign says Sheriff has stepped down from his position as the Romney campaign’s Arizona state co-chair.
Sheriff Babeu to hold 2:30 PM news conference. Watch live here.
Paul Babeu in a press conference just now: “I am gay,” but charges against me “completely false.”
In a press conference just now, in which it seemed he was surrounded by the entire staff of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Paul Babeu forcefully denied the charges made against him that he, or an associate, threatened the deportation of an ex-boyfriend.
“I am gay,” Babeu said, but the charges against me are “completely false.” Read More
Santorum attacks Obama’s agenda as not “based on the bible“.