Barack Obama campaign dispatching Massachusetts lawmakers to criticize Mitt Romney in swing states
WASHINGTON – President Obama’s campaign is dispatching several Massachusetts lawmakers to key swing states next week, in a further attempt to draw negative attention to the state’s former governor – and presumptive Republican presidential nominee – Mitt Romney.
The campaign is sending several local lawmakers — Cory Atkins, of Concord; Jeffrey Sanchez, of Boston; and David Linsky, of Natick — to host events on Monday in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Ohio. It marks a national debut of sorts for some creatures of Beacon Hill who are not widely known outside their districts.
The move comes a day after top Obama adviser David Axelrod staged a press conference on the steps of the Massachusetts State House, where a group of Romney supporters and campaign staffers chanted, booed, and blew bubbles.
Obama’s campaign has not announced full details of the Monday events involving the Massachusetts lawmakers, and Romney’s campaign has not said whether they intend to try to send surrogates to disrupt them.
The Obama campaign on Friday is also planning several conference calls involving Massachusetts officials. Those officials – Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone, Melrose Mayor Rob Dolan, and state Representative Bill Straus, of Mattapoisett – are going to participate in conference calls with reporters in Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, and Colorado.
The Obama campaign also released a new web video on Friday morning that showed some of Romney’s former Republican rivals – both from this year, as well as Senator John McCain in 2008 – disparaging the former governor’s record in Massachusetts. Those Republicans have since endorsed Romney, but provided the Democrats with ample footage of their critiques over a seemingly endless number of feisty debates.
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