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Mike Connolly, Massachusetts Legislative Candidate, Denies Rosa Parks 'Gimmick' Comment

Mike Connolly, an independent candidate for Massachusetts state legislature, said he didn't call the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks "a gimmick" during a debate on Tuesday. Connolly's two opponents, Democratic state Rep. Tim Toomey and Republican Thomas Vasconcelos, attacked his refusal to accept campaign contributions as "a gimmick." Connolly then launched into a comparison of his in-kind contributions and his opponents' cash donations, calling Parks' 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger "a gimmick," according to BostInno.com.

 

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