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February 7, 2008
We meant it as a joke when we said that former Romney aide Jay Garrity was the only one on the team having a good week. But it might be true. WBZ is reporting that Romney is "suspending" his campaign. Leave it to Romney to use the euphemism "suspend" instead of "drop out." WBZ explains that he can keep his delegates "if something happened to front-runner John McCain's campaign." The language makes the situation sound......
Continue Reading "Breaking MittWatch: Romney "Suspends" Campaign"February 7, 2008
Well, at least somebody within the Romney campaign got some good news after Super Tuesday. DA Dan Conley announced that he won't press charges against former Romney aide Jay Garrity. No, Garrity wasn't the Romney aide who put a picture of himself in a hot tub on mySpace. He was the guy who allegedly pretended to be a police officer and hassled a reporter. According to the AP, Garrity was cleared of pretending to be......
Continue Reading "MittWatch: Romney Aide Is Super Trooper No More"July 26, 2007
We thought Jay Garrity, Mitt Romney's former pretend police officer and factotum, was creepy. But Garrity loses to another Mitt Minion - Will Ritter. Casey Ross at the Herald had the best journalism job ever when he got to write about Ritter's self-described shenanigans. On MySpace, Ritter claimed he was in "special ops" yet he still had time to party it up in a hot tub. If he's so important, why does he have so......
Continue Reading "Mitt's Minions on MySpace?"July 22, 2007
Jay Garrity, the Romney aide who allegedly impersonated police officers and who allegedly hassled a New York Times reporter, has resigned from the Romney campaign. The Herald reported that the overenthusiastic Garrity made fake badges and liked to use them. According to the Herald, Garrity and other members of Team Romney may have used the badge to avoid paying a toll. Meanwhile, the Romney campaign is putting as much distance between itself and Garrity as......
Continue Reading "Creepy, Cop-Impersonating Romney Aide Quits"June 24, 2007
--Forbes announced that former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney placed fourth in their "creepiest candidate" poll. We can understand why – and it has nothing to do with Mormonism or big sticks. It's simply the fact that the man has not aged for several decades. Of course he's creepy – he's hiding a portrait in the attic! --Romney's new "crazy eyes" ad certainly won't help him get off the creepy list. Earlier in......
Continue Reading "MittWatch: You So Crazy! Edition"June 22, 2007
It's been such a big week for Mitt Romney that we can't wrap everything up in the regular Mitt Watch - especially the following incident. A New York Times reporter wrote that Mitt Romney's security got a little too heavy on him in New Hampshire. Mark Leibovich was driving behind the Romney Caravan. An aide stopped him, said he ran Liebovich's plates and told the reporter to - these are the reporter's words - "veer......
Continue Reading "Ask Mitt Anything, but Don't Get Too Close"