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2007-03-23
Christian
Coalition officer backs Romney
A Christian
Coalition of America officer who ran a successful campaign
to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina said
Thursd
A Christian
Coalition of America officer who ran a successful campaign
to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina said
Thursday he is endorsing Republican Mitt Romney's
presidential bid and will work for the campaign.
Drew McKissick,
the national coalition's secretary and board member, will
be a paid ''South Carolina grassroots adviser'' for the
campaign, Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said
Thursday.
McKissick, who
also is cochairman of the South Carolina GOP's rules
committee, said his endorsement of the former Massachusetts
governor has nothing to do with his own role with the
Christian Coalition.
Gitcho and
McKissick said there was no link between the endorsement and
the paid campaign job.
''I started to go
through this process a year ago,'' McKissick said of
the endorsement. ''It became obvious to me who was likely be
the consensus conservative choice.''
The campaign
declined to say how much McKissick would be paid.
Last year
Romney's political action committee donated $5,000 to
McKissick's SC for Marriage group, which pushed a state
constitutional amendment that prevents any type of
legal recognition of same-sex unions. While the group
solicited cash from other presidential hopefuls, Romney
was the only one to write a check, McKissick said. (AP)
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