Romney's Deputy Campaign Manager Resigns(Feeney's former Chief of Staff)

[maddezmom]

Source: The Hotline

Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney's deputy campaign manager has resigned, a Romney aide confirmed to the Hotline Tuesday.

Jason Roe, who functioned as the campaign's top daily operating officer, told campaign officials today that he planned to leave.

"Jason informed the campaign on Tuesday that he decided to resign, citing familial obligations," said Matt Rhoades, Romney's communications director, in a prepared statement. "We understood and accepted what must have been a hard decision."

Roe, like several top Romney aides, commutes between Boston and Washington. Roe's wife lives in the D.C. area.

Roe was hired by the campaign after serving as chief of staff to Rep. Tom Feeney since 2003. He has also managed several congressional races. On Monday, the St. Petersburg Times reported that FBI agents had asked Feeney about a 2003 golfing trip with convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The Times also reported that the FBI asked the newspaper to turn over an e-mail Roe sent to the paper. The e-mail's contents, according to the paper, included the sentence: "Any assertion that this office knew Abramoff paid for the Scotland trip is a g--d----- lie."



Read more: http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/04/romneys_deputy.html

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Cost hidden for Feeney trip

WASHINGTON - Lobbyist Jack Abramoff treated Rep. Tom Feeney and others to a Scotland trip in 2003 that began with a trans-Atlantic flight on a private jet and featured twice-daily golf at world-famous locales.

New court documents released Tuesday show Abramoff's expenses for the luxury trip averaged about $20,000 per person for each of the eight people who went, not the $5,000 Feeney estimated in the travel report he filed in Congress.

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On Tuesday, his spokeswoman, Pepper Pennington, said he would not comment further except to say, "Rep. Feeney is anxious to discuss this matter at the appropriate time."

The documents filed in U.S. District Court in Washington refer to Feeney, the only current member of Congress to have gone on the four-day trip, as "Representative #3."

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The document the FBI has requested from the Times is an e-mail from Feeney's former chief of staff, Jason Roe, who was answering questions about the Scotland trip last year.

Roe resigned abruptly Tuesday from his new job as deputy campaign manager for presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

more:http://www.sptimes.com/2007/04/25/State/Cost_hidden_for_Feene.shtml

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Want to spend more time with the family." - Typical republicon lameass excuse

TRANSLATION: "There is some deep, deep, deep republicon perversion & corruption here and I need to get out of Dodge before the people find out what this campaign is really all about."

Typical propaganda image of ostensibly "honest, pious, noble, patriotic" republicons



The REALITY:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. His family must be in jail...

...since that's where he's going,;)