In other, funnier Romney news, Mitt has been denying accusations that his aide Jay Garrity “pulled over a New York Times reporter trailing the former governor’s caravan in New Hampshire, checked his license plates and told him to leave.” (As the article helpfully notes, “New Hampshire law does not allow private staffers access to license plate databases, nor does it allow campaign staffers to pull over fellow citizens.”)

Now the Boston Globe reports (h/t Politico) that Massachusetts State Police are investigating Garrity for other fake cop antics, including his phone call to a company whose driver he threatened to cite for moving violations:

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.

In the phone call to the Wilmington company, which was recorded by an answering service and obtained by the Globe, a man who identifies himself as “Trooper Garrity with the Massachusetts State Police” complains about the driving of a van owned by Wayne’s Drains Middlesex Sewers of Wilmington. The caller repeatedly says he is a trooper and questions when the driver will return to the office.

“I’m going to get the address of your company,” the caller says during the May 13 call. “I’m going to come down to your company. I’m going to personally issue this driver a citation for both speeding, driving erratic, cutting across.”

Is there anything about Mitt Romney that isn’t phony?

Posted by Paul Curtis
Friday, June 22, 2007 at 8:31 am

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