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To: bentway who wrote (654389)	5/10/2012 12:38:38 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1578938

Romney says sorry for ‘hijinks’ after high school bullying story May 10, 2012, 12:28 PM Mitt Romney said on Thursday that he’s sorry for some “hijinks and pranks” he took part in during his high school years after a newspaper story said he bullied a student who later came out as gay. The Washington Post story cited classmates of Romney’s who recalled Romney repeatedly clipping the bleached-blond hair of a student they’d tackled and pinned to the ground at their Michigan high school. The student, who was presumed by some to be gay, screamed for help. A Romney spokeswoman quoted in the story said Romney had no memory of participating in the incident described. On Thursday, Romney expanded on his high school years in a radio interview. The presumptive Republican nominee maintained he didn’t remember the incident, but said: “I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s, so that was not the case.” The story appeared a day after President Barack Obama endorsed same-sex marriage. Romney backs a constitutional amendment prohibiting it. John Lauber, the student whose hair Romney allegedly cut, died in 2004, according to the Post story. In the radio interview, Romney said: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.”