Caught: Well-Publicized Romney Photo-Op Was With Staffer's Mom
A well-publicized weekend photo-op for Mitt Romney turns out to have been missing a piece of information that might have undermined its credibility: the unemployed single mom at the center of the event was the mother of a Romney staffer.
Local and national media outlets, including Politico.com, reported that Romney was the picture of empathy as he sat at the Marshall, Mich. kitchen table of 51-year-old Elizabeth Sachs, a single mother of two who lost her job as a retail manager - as well as her health insurance - and is running out of money as she tries to sell her house to move to Florida.
What wasn't reported - and what the Romney campaign did not reveal at the time - was that one of Sachs' sons, Steve Sachs, is a paid employee of Romney's campaign, organizing five counties in Michigan.
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Politico | January 14, 2008 10:34 PM