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Romney Spokesperson Demoted for Blocking Questions about Abortion; Helped Scott Walker in the Recall
A communications director for Mitt Romney's campaign, Ciara Matthews, has been demoted after prohibiting reporters from asking the GOP presidential candidate questions about Todd Akin or abortion. Matthews was recently communications director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's recall campaign and has long been an anti-abortion advocate -- and even wrote last year that Republicans should be speaking more about abortion.
Last week, at the height of controversy over Missouri GOP U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin's comments about "legitimate rape" and abortion, Matthews instructed a Denver TV reporter that she could only interview Romney if there were no questions about the issue. The journalist was reportedly told, "Well he’s said all he’s going to say about it. He doesn’t have anything more to say, you won’t be getting any new information so we don’t want to talk about that." On Friday, the Romney campaign announced Matthews would be demoted and no longer be allowed to speak with the media.
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