Jeff Perry gives Mitt Romney grand helping hand

[Ian David]

Jeff Perry gives Mitt Romney grand helping hand

Former Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign hauled in a whopping $18 million in the first three months of his campaign, including a $1,000 gift from ex-state Rep. Jeff Perry, records show.

Perry, a Sandwich Republican, lost last year to U.S. Rep. William Keating in a nasty race marked by controversy over Perry’s role in a strip search scandal in Wareham in the early 1990s. Perry, a former Wareham officer, was at the scene of an illegal strip search of a teenage girl that landed another cop in jail. Perry denied ever witnessing the crime.

Despite the controversies, Romney, along with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, stuck by Perry. After losing to Keating, Perry was hired to a $110,000-a-year job at the Barnstable Sheriff’s Department, a patronage move that led Gov. Deval Patrick to veto $100,000 in funding for the sheriff.

A Romney spokeswoman declined to comment on Perry’s recent campaign contribution.



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PatronagePerry determined to stay in #MaPoli game http://t.co/tMuOkCK will he play active role in @ScottBrownMA or Mitt campaign? #MaGOP
http://twitter.com/#!/perrypatriot/status/95499923134492672

[JAnthony]

1. So did I read that right? Perry got a $110K a year job after he

lost his Congressional race?

Is he still in that job?