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sarcasmo

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Sun Feb 19, 2012, 10:30 AM Feb 2012

Arizona sheriff quits Romney campaign amid accusations




Snip< PHOENIX (Reuters) - A local sheriff resigned as a co-chair of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's campaign in Arizona on Saturday after he was accused of threatening a former male lover with deportation to Mexico if he talked about their relationship.




Snip < Babeu acknowledged at a press conference on Saturday that he is gay and that he had a personal relationship with the man making the allegations, whom he identified only as "Jose."






http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sheriff-quits-romney-campaign-amid-accusations-021441912.html
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