Mitt Romney

Citizen complaint of the day: Mitt Romney's giant shredder truck

adamg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:49:30 +0000

Looks like Mitt Romney's campaign has found a new way to keep little kids out of the parking lot of his North End campaign headquarters. A disgusted citizen reports:

Mitt Romney's giant Shredder Truck illegally parked outside his office on Commercial Street. This giant shredder truck often parked in tow zone in front of Romney National HQ, yet never towed or ticketed. Maybe he's shredding the parking tickets too?

H/t to the one person who scans Citizens Connect even more obsessively than I do!

Another e-mail deletion scandal as nobody in the State House can find any e-mail from Romney's administration

Kaz — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:06:33 +0000

As Mitt Romney has taken to the national public stage as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, Deval Patrick's administration has been asked many times to provide e-mails from Romney's time as governor. The catch: they can't find any to hand out.

Romney's staff paid the state to take their hard drives with them in a move Romney's campaign is calling "a longtime executive branch practice". The server was wiped completely and the computers in the State House were even replaced. As a result the State House now has no electronic mail archive from anyone between 2002-2006.

Mitt Romney has a problem with little kids in the North End

adamg — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:43:39 +0000

Romney's enforcers took no guff this morning.

Tenacity runs a summer tennis and literacy program for North End kids at the park at the corner of Commercial and North Washington streets. Parents who dropped their kids off on the way to work would pull into the parking lot next to the tennis court to let them off.

Until recently, that is. The Romney presidential campaign, based at 585 Commercial St., next to the lot, is now blocking it off to everybody but campaign workers, forcing parents to stop in a turning lane for the Charlestown Bridge and get their kids out. This morning, a couple of glowering guys enforced the no-lot policy. They told one irate parent there'd been a "hit and run" in the lot. Hit and run? Why, yes, somebody scratched a car and then left without taking responsibility. A parent? Well, nobody'd seen the "hit and run."

Another parent writes:

Damning with strong praise

adamg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:51:15 +0000

Patrick pwns Romney.

Police Sgt Jeff Perry protected felon "officer strip-search" not the teenage girls

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:06:00 +0000

Then a 14 year old teenager, Lisa Allen came forward Wednesday to tell her side of the story when Republican candidate for US Congress former police officer Sgt Jeff Perry, failed to protect Ms. Allen from Officer Scott Flanagan who performed an illegal strip-search of her. Police officers are entrusted to, and take an oath to, serve and protect. Ms. Allen said Officer Perry protected Officer Flanagan but not her. Ms Allen went further and said Perry "should not be in a position of power."

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And now the rest of the story: Mitt vs. the rapper

adamg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:02:57 +0000

Guy who's supposedly a rap star (Ed. note: What the hell do I know?) reveals he was the guy in the tete-a-Mitt on that plane, and says Romney grabbed him first.

Romney nearly pummeled by air rager

adamg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:16:43 +0000

Guy objected to Mitt telling him to put his seat upright for takeoff. In economy. No, it wasn't Kevin Smith.

Out-of-state Republican decides not to run for Kennedy's seat

adamg — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:48:24 +0000

No, not Bill Weld, silly. Mitt Romney, who, you may recall, sold his Belmont house awhile back.

Blame Mitt Romney for the idea of grabbing taxes from New Hampshire

adamg — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:31:19 +0000

That darn tax-and-spender! Lance explains how the court case that started it all was launched in 2003 by the Romney administration's Revenue Department - not by Deval Patrick:

... [T]he next time Mitt Romney runs for president, he should be asked over and over again from Keene to Laconia why he wanted to impose a Massachusetts sales tax on New Hampshire businesses.

Romneys 'downsizing and simplifying'

adamg — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:57:44 +0000

Please, try not to snort too loudly.

Our own Gregor Samsa

adamg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:29:46 +0000

Aw, our own Mittster is already running for president again.

The Outraged Liberal ponders Romney taking a different tack in 2012 to outflank hard righters like Palin and Huckabee:

... Could we be witnessing yet another metamorphosis, with Romney blooming as new (pretty) face and voice of the "pragmatic" wing that is expected to emerge? ...

Jay Fitzgerald doesn't doubt it for a second:

... Of course there'll be another metamorphosis -- and another and another. When Mitt finally develops a consistent message, we'll know he's not running anymore.

Doth Mitt protest too much?

adamg — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:15:18 +0000

Oh, no, Romneyoids couldn't possibly be behind all those nasty Palin stories. Romney and his minions would NEVER stoop so low. Just ask Jane Swift.

But maybe it doesn't matter. Seth Gitell quotes a top Romney aide as saying he doubts Romney will run in 2012. And we know Romney's word about not running is his bond. Just ask Jane Swift.

Oh, and Steve Garfield fact-checks Romney mouthpiece Eric Fehrnstrom, who feels compelled to mouth off about the evil that bloggers do without understanding what a hyperlink is.

Mitt winks and says 2012 run 'unlikely'

GarrettQuinn — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:37:23 +0000

Does anyone really think Mitt Romney won't run in 2012?

Mitt's spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, says Mitt isn't thinking about 2012 and he is giving 110% to McCain/Palin.

One election-at-a-time.

GOP veep tryouts: Romney or Pawlenty?

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:02:28 +0000

In addition to attack dog, a purpose Romney is filling as we speak, the top contender must also be uncertain about how many houses he owns.

Republicans have governed the country with a willful disregard for the issues facing the middle class. There is nothing about the Republican ticket in 2008 that would make one believe they have any intention of changing.

Mitt Romney has not yet foresaken us

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:30:16 +0000

Michael Prager reports:

... [T]his morning, for the second time in a couple of months, I ran into him in the market. The other time, I was with Georgie but he was alone, cruising the produce section of the Shaw's Market in Belmont. This time, I was alone but he was with his wife, Ann, when we met up at adjacent cash registers at Wilson Farms. ...

Hmm, I wonder if Mike Dukakis still shops at the Harvard Street Stop & Shop when he's in Brookline? A former co-worker once reported Dukakis started arguing with him about his choice of cereal - Dukakis tried to convince him the store brand was just as good and would save him money.