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How Eva Longoria Turned A Teen's Tweet Into A Scandal Oct 19th 2012, 15:47 The actress retweeted a young follower's anti-Romney message, and then deleted it. Now critics are attacking the teenager. Longoria speaking at the Democratic National Convention on September 6. Image by Alex Wong / Getty Images On Wednesday, Eva Longoria, a co-chair of the Obama campaign, retweeted a follower's tweet about Mitt Romney. The tweet called Romney voters stupid, and Romney a "racist/mysoginistic twat." Critics immediately began to attack Longoria, calling it a classless thing for someone associated with the Obama campaign to endorse. Longoria quickly deleted the tweet, and spent many hours filling her Twitter feed with apologies. But who wrote that tweet in the first place? An 18-year-old Florida voter named Yuri. In an email to BuzzFeed, she wrote that she found Longoria's behavior "shady and annoying." First, a quick taste of Longoria's apology and explanation: View Entire List › Media files: enhanced-buzz-17729-1350595443-21.jpg (image/jpeg)

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