Would Romney and his friends from Exxon throw us over the climate cliff?
Mitt Romney was too busy hauling cases of bottled water for various post-Sandy photo ops to answer reporters who wanted to know if he still wants to cut FEMA, as he suggested earlier in the campaign. Romney refused to answer the question not just once -- but 14 times!
Then, after getting pounded by the media, the Romney camp finally assured voters that he believes FEMA has a "really important role." Oh yeah, so important you almost expected him to add that Obama was doing a "heckuva job."
But until then, it was a pretty disciplined silence, quite disciplined for a guy who has reversed himself so often. One wonders if that discipline followed the advice he received from his communications coordinator Andrea Saul, who has had a lot of experience disciplining post-hurricane messages. As David Halperin reminds us, Saul used to work for a PR that was hired by Exxon after Katrina to keep reporters from linking that earlier disaster to climate change.
On Huffington: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-cray/mitt-romney-climate-change_b_2053897.html
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