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June 10, 2012 09:00 AM
Romney's Creepy Fake Cop Act Extends To Staffers
By karoli
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romneys-creepy-fake-cop-act-extends-staffer
Unlike so much of the conservative manufactured fauxtrage, Romney's penchant for impersonating cops has implications that shouldn't be ignored, because they point to an authoritarian world view that would permeate how he approaches the office of President.
Lest you think otherwise, here is a story of some other cop impersonators who just happened to be Romney staffers. Joe Conason:
If Mitt Romney had a penchant in his youth for masquerading as a state police officer and there is reason to believe he did then he seems to have attracted staffers with that same peculiar fantasy over the years. During the summer of 2007, months before the general public paid much attention to the Republican presidential candidates, Romneys 2008 campaign stumbled into a scandal that led to the resignation of a top staffer accused of impersonating a state trooper, and allegations of similar misconduct by at least two others.
A former gubernatorial aide to Romney at the Massachusetts state house who served as his body man in the early stages of the 2008 primary campaign, Jay Garrity provoked several reporters with thuggish behavior that led to investigations of his conduct in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich accused Garrity of waving his car over and ordering him to veer off from a campaign motorcade, claiming that he had run the license plate of Leibovichs car.
Romney's Creepy Fake Cop Act Extends To Staffers
By karoli
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romneys-creepy-fake-cop-act-extends-staffer
Unlike so much of the conservative manufactured fauxtrage, Romney's penchant for impersonating cops has implications that shouldn't be ignored, because they point to an authoritarian world view that would permeate how he approaches the office of President.
Lest you think otherwise, here is a story of some other cop impersonators who just happened to be Romney staffers. Joe Conason:
If Mitt Romney had a penchant in his youth for masquerading as a state police officer and there is reason to believe he did then he seems to have attracted staffers with that same peculiar fantasy over the years. During the summer of 2007, months before the general public paid much attention to the Republican presidential candidates, Romneys 2008 campaign stumbled into a scandal that led to the resignation of a top staffer accused of impersonating a state trooper, and allegations of similar misconduct by at least two others.
A former gubernatorial aide to Romney at the Massachusetts state house who served as his body man in the early stages of the 2008 primary campaign, Jay Garrity provoked several reporters with thuggish behavior that led to investigations of his conduct in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich accused Garrity of waving his car over and ordering him to veer off from a campaign motorcade, claiming that he had run the license plate of Leibovichs car.
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Romney's Creepy Fake Cop Act Extends To Staffers (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Jun 2012
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Hopefully, one of Weird Willard's Kreepy Krew will wave over another REAL officer sometime soon.
Buns_of_Fire
Jun 2012
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Buns_of_Fire
(17,218 posts)1. Hopefully, one of Weird Willard's Kreepy Krew will wave over another REAL officer sometime soon.
Preferably, one like Frank Serpico.
FindTheTruth1x
(1 post)2. Fact checker needed
Karoli - We need to get facts right if we're going after Mitt or we become as sloppy as they are. I looked up the staffer-as-cop. There were three separate investigations, two requested by the Romney campaign, and his guy was cleared in all three with conclusive proof he was not involved. If we stoop to their level of bringing up the petty and inaccurate we are going to lose in November.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)3. "We"??
cwydro
(51,308 posts)4. Erm yes...
methinks I smell something odd hereabouts..
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)5. I think it smells like pizza.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)7. Pepperoni?
Nah, more like sausage.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)6. How wonderful for you to catch that Democrat gaffe and
show such incredible concern!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)8. And to provide such compelling fact-checking, sources and links!
Oh, wait. Make that zero evidence, zero sources, zero links.
MADem
(135,425 posts)9. You looked it up? You didn't look very hard.
Read and be edified.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/romneys-creepy-fake-cop-act-extends-staffer