The FAMiLY Leader’s Bob Vander Plaats insisted that the Rick Santorum campaign did not know about his endorsement of the former Pennsylvania senator ahead of time, despite the presence of national political director Michael Biundo at yesterday’s announcement. Well, now the candidate himself has confirmed Vander Plaats’ claim, telling a reporter in Iowa that he first heard about the endorsement from a blind man:
SANTORUM: I was standing here and someone like you, person in front of me said, oh I just heard Rick Perry is the guy [the FAMiLY Leader] is going to endorse…another person said, I just heard. I said, what do you mean you just heard? You don’t’ have an ear piece. This guy said, ‘I’m blind’. I have very good hearing and and I herd somebody in the kitchen say that they didn’t endorse anybody. I said, okay, they didn’t endorse anybody….And then just as they were breaking up, somebody came in and said ‘no they endorsed you.‘
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