Mitt Romney had been telling the story of how he met Glen Doherty at a Christmas party. Slain SEAL's mom no Romney fan

The mother of an ex-Navy SEAL killed in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Libya told a local television station Wednesday that she thought GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was using her son’s death for political advantage.

“I don’t trust Romney,” Barbara Doherty told NBC’s Boston affiliate. “He shouldn’t make my son’s death part of his political agenda. It’s wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama.”


In recent days, Romney had told the story of how he met Glen Doherty at a Christmas party in California as part of his stump speech, and used the story of Doherty’s death — he rushed toward the facility to defend it when he heard about the attack — to illustrate American bravery.

Doherty, a Massachusetts native, died in the Benghazi attack along with three other Americans.

The Romney campaign told BuzzFeed the candidate would stop mentioning Doherty on the stump.

Meanwhile, a friend of Doherty’s told a Seattle radio station Doherty remembered Romney repeatedly introducing himself at the Christmas party.

“He said it was pathetic and comical to have the same person come up to you within only a half hour, have this person reintroduce himself to you, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that he just did this 20 minutes ago, and did not even recognize Glen’s face,” Elf Ellefsen told the Ron & Don Show.

“Honestly, it does make me sick,” Ellefsen added. “Glen would definitely not approve of it. He probably wouldn’t do much about it. He probably wouldn’t say a whole lot about it. I think Glen would feel, more than anything, almost embarrassed for Romney. I think he would feel pity for him.”