Elizabeth Hogan, who served as the executive director for the Coalition to Advance Health Care Reform, emails to confirm what I reported yesterday: Ed Gillespie, a new adviser to Gov. Romney, never lobbied for a federal individual mandate.

Tim Carney, the author of the initial Washington Examiner story that claimed otherwise, now admits that his headline and lede were “imprecise.”

Update: On twitter, Sean Davis takes me to task for not disclosing that Gillespie has been a speaker on several NR cruises and will be again. Davis seems rather unpleasant, but on this point he is also right.