It peaked media interest when the Connie Mack IV senatorial campaign put out an endorsement of the candidate by Puerto Rican Gov. Luis Fortuño. In a press release to reporters, the Mack campaign quoted Fortuño as saying Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson, along with President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, were “lockstep liberals,” a favored Mack phrase.
But that’s not what Fortuño actually said and the campaign later put out a corrected, updated version sans any “liberal” reference. It called the previous release an “erroneous working draft.”
Nice try. But since when is the question of what to actually attribute to someone–via quotation marks–a function of a “draft”?