GRAPEVINE, Texas – In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the country’s leading youthBOSTON – A coalition of Massachusetts women’s groups says GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney did, in fact, receive binders with the names of potential female candidates for high-level positions when he was governor.
Romney’s remark at Tuesday’s debate with President Barack Obama that he was sent “binders full of women” has touched off a wave of social media parodies. He said in the debate that he reached out to women’s organizations after being dissatisfied with the mostly male applicants for senior level positions in his administration.
But representatives of the Massachusetts Government Appointments Project note the effort, which did increase the number of women in top positions, started before Romney was elected in 2002. He took office in 2003.
MassGAP describes itself as a non-partisan coalition of women’s groups.
