CNN Reports: Newt Gingrich denied any knowledge of a robocall put out by his campaign Tuesday claiming rival Mitt Romney refused to fund kosher food for Holocaust survivors during his time as Massachusetts governor.
Gingrich’s campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed the calls were going out statewide in Florida Tuesday. The call’s claim that Romney vetoed a bill providing kosher meals to nursing home residents during his time as governor first arose Monday, when Gingrich cited a report from the New York Post.
At a campaign stop in Plant City, Florida, Gingrich denied any knowledge of the robocall, despite his campaign claiming responsibility for it.
When asked if the call was “over the top,” Gingrich said, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
When pressed, Gingrich said he wouldn’t comment about the call since it was “something I don’t know about.”
Gingrich first made the claim about Romney’s kosher food veto Monday, telling an audience in Jacksonville he read about the veto over the weekend.
The New York Post reported Friday on a veto Romney cast in 2003 that rejected “$600,000 in additional funds for poor Jewish nursing-home residents to get kosher meals.”
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