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Phil Hare comment on Constitution, health bill stirs controversy on Web By Anthony Watt

Gov. Mitt Romney flirted with abolishing a state advisory commission on gay youth for promoting a parade featuring a crossdressing master of ceremonies and embracing transgender teens, a spokesman said Friday. Initially, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said the governor, who signed a proclamation hailing a similar parade in 2003, considering killing the Gov.'s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth because the parade press release was issued without the administration's blessing. On Friday, Fehrnstrom expanded on that explanation. "This year what was brought to our attention was a press release that was not authorized by this office but which went out...

The Set UP: Earlier this week, Boston area talk show host Michael Graham was interviewed by Imus on several issues, for example, Tony Snow, Bush and McCain. When asked about the "right wing" efforts to paint McCain as "crazy," Graham said that most of the time McCain sounds reasonable, but there is a fear that some mornings he wakes up and says to himself: "I think I'll limit the First Amendment today." Well, Imus asked him about that this morning, and McCain said that yeah, they're talking about the Campaign Finance Reform Law, and that given the choice between (paraphrasing...