2007: Aide to Gov. Romney accused of impersonating police

[alp227]

Peeked over to That Other Forum to see their reaction to Robin Madden's story about Mitt Romney impersonating police as a high school prank. They've got nothing so far, but I found this Boston Globe article from July 22, 2007 "Romney aide is the focus of probe; Allegedly acted as State Police trooper":

(Yes, the link goes to the wayback machine, since the Globe put many old articles behind a paywall in 2011.)

State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe.

Jay Garrity, who is director of operations on Romney's presidential campaign and a constant presence at his side, became the primary target of the investigation, according to one of the sources, after authorities traced the cellphone used to make the call back to him. The investigation comes three years after Garrity, while working for Romney in the State House, was cited for having flashing lights and other police equipment in his car without proper permits.

The New Hampshire attorney general, according to the Associated Press, has also opened an investigation into a report that a Romney aide, later identified as Garrity, pulled over a New York Times reporter in New Hampshire and said he had run his license plate.

New Hampshire law prohibits private citizens from accessing license plate databases or pulling over fellow citizens.

He might lose a bunch of police officers' votes.

[flamingdem]

1. Now he wants to impersonate being a viable presidential candidate

nein

nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Romney' campaign have been busy with their costumes!

Have they Nazi uniforms too? They probably have Hitler evenings where they all march around doing Hitler salutes?

It all seems rather suspicious.

[freshwest]

5. Turns out the surname, Romney is a mistranslation from the Spanish for Rommel. Who knew?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. I knew it Mitt Rommel

what's his ancestory

[Politicalboi]

3. It was probably the uniform

Rmoney had.

[sabrina 1]

4. Maybe he has his own secret police force. First him, now his aides?

Weird to say the least. But definitely a power issue.