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Undeleted secret-e-mails of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during his tenure as Massachusetts Governor have exposed his double standards on healthcare, a provision in President Barack Obama's law that has strongly been criticized by the Republicans. According to ABC News, Romney's emails' reveal his defence of also defended the so-called individual mandate to buy health insurance. When Romney left the governor's office 7in Massachusetts , his staff erased all the e-mails from a computer server and bought the hard drives used to store data, so that their correspondence would stay hidden. According to ABC News, Tom Trimarco, Romney's administration and finance secretary, never deleted his e-mails. In an interview with ABC News, Trimarco said that he did not know he was supposed to delete the e-mails. "No memo ever came around advising that was an option," he said, stifling a big laugh. "So when I left, I just left, and one of my colleagues said, 'What's the matter - did yours not have a delete button?' " One of the emails revealed is a warm note from Romney to Trimarco the night the governor signed the health bill into law. "You have made a huge difference, for me and for hundreds of thousands of people who will have healthier and happier lives," Romney wrote at 10:56 p.m. on April 12, 2006. Trimarco, who voted for Obama in 2008 but supports Romney now, said the e-mails prove that Romney cared deeply about giving health care to Massachusetts residents, because "his fingerprints are all over this thing." Romney has defended the deletion the e-mails by arguing that they would be fodder for his political opponents.

Undeleted secret e-mails expose Romney's double standards on healthcare bill