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SB500

Stephen, NOM Misinformation Campaign Unravels

by: Pamela Walsh

Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 10:20:25 AM EDT

Father Featured in Cornerstone Ad Writes Letter
Apologizing for Inadvertently Spreading Misinformation, Calling SB 500 "Good Policy"


Lynch Campaign Calls on Stephen Campaign and Friends to Pull False Ads, Apologize and Stop Deceptive Attacks

MANCHESTER - Michael Gilmore, the father featured in a recent National Organization for Marriage/Cornerstone ad attacking New Hampshire's bipartisan correction reforms, has written a letter to the Conway Daily Sun apologizing for inadvertently spreading misinformation and calling the law "good policy."

In his letter, Gilmore wrote, "Admit it, fix it, get on your life. It is how we were raised, how to handle our mistakes. Well, this is what I am doing here. It is in reference to some of my statements and 'facts' I posted about SB500.

"First, everything I (we) have said has been true to the best of our knowledge. As we continue to dig deeper, reach farther, and look everywhere, the details, more important details, are slowly coming out. There are enough 'sound bytes' floating around to confuse everyone. I apologize for my part in that and can only say that in our haste to get information out we were unable to get all the scattered details correct and verified," Gilmore wrote.

At the end of his letter, Gilmore wrote: "Conclusion: It is good policy."

The Lynch Campaign applauded Mr. Gilmore's courage in coming forward to correct the record, and called on John Stephen and his allies to do the same.

"Unlike Mr. Gilmore, John Stephen knows the facts. But John Stephen has chosen to mislead people and play politics with public safety," said Pamela Walsh, campaign manager for New Hampshire for John Lynch. "John Stephen's misinformation campaign is rapidly unraveling.

"John Stephen should apologize to the people of New Hampshire for deliberately trying to mislead them and call on his friends to stop their misleading attacks and pull their ads," Walsh said.

The National Organization for Marriage and Cornerstone, groups supportive of John Stephen's agenda, have been running misleading ads on this issue.

The Portsmouth Herald has called the misleading statements against the reform law a "cheap political trick."

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