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Newton - Brian Camenker of Auburndale was a major force behind the derailing of Mitt Romney’s massively expensive and impeccably organized presidential campaign. One recent national press release called Camenker the “lynchpin” of Romney’s demise. Political insiders have to acknowledge that he was the unforeseen nemesis the Romney machine couldn’t stop. It’s evident that since stepping down from leading the Newton Taxpayers Association in 2004, Camenker’s been getting a lot more traction outside of Newton than in it. For years Newton liberals had made an industry of publicly berating him, largely due to his relentless challenges to their political sacred...

For this news cycle anyway, Brian Camenker has emerged as a thorn in Mitt Romney’s side. A long time fixture on the fringe of Massachusetts politics, Camenker and his organization, MassResistance, have steadily expressed their disappointment with Mitt Romney as well as virtually every other Massachusetts Republican. One important note – Camenker’s MassResistance verges on being a hate group. Its disappointment with Romney and his Republican predecessors in the Massachusetts’ gubernatorial office is that they haven’t been sufficiently hostile to homosexuals. None of this is easy for me to write. As strange as it may seem, Brian Camenker and...

Group wages battle against Massachusetts gay culture BOSTON — The minute they spotted the mannequins in Macy's department store window celebrating the city's Gay Pride week, Brian Camenker and the watchdog activists at MassResistance jumped into action. The group quickly posted a photo of the window on their Web log under the caption: "Male mannequins with (apparently) enlarged breasts, one wearing a rainbow skirt." Within days, Macy had removed the mannequins but left up a list of pride week events. It was the latest victory for a group dedicated to battling what it characterizes as the aggressive gay and lesbian...