In an earlier post, I made a snide remark about the expectation of Romney spending a lot of his own money in his battle with the McCain-Huckabee show (at least it sounds like Huck would be Veep if McCain gets the nod).
Perhaps McCain isn’t quite so squeaky clean on the ethical campaign front. From CNN’s Political Ticker:
The day before polls close in Tuesday’s critical Florida primary, some voters in the Miami area received automated phone calls in Spanish falsely accusing Mitt Romney of supporting an opening of relations with Cuban President Fidel Castro.
A key member of Romney’s Latin American policy team, Ambassador Roger Noriega, had been on local radio on Monday morning talking about Romney’s anti-Castro stance. “It was obviously a dirty tactic and strategy to rebut the efforts we made to let the [Hispanic] community know our position,” said Al Cardenas, Romney’s Florida state chairman.
Asked if he suspected rival John McCain, Cardenas responded, “Obviously it’s a camp of one of our opponents,” later adding “I can’t specifically state with certainty it is John McCain’s campaign, all I know is there are two campaigns making these calls, ours and his and these calls started immediately after our programming on that issue.”