{"id":199492,"date":"2007-07-23T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/23\/and-the-winner-in-the-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-category\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T02:01:00","slug":"and-the-winner-in-the-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/23\/and-the-winner-in-the-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-category\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Winner in the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Category&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just whack.  These guys are impersonating an officer because it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">convenient<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Your Republican morality at a glance:  Laws for the but nor for me.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=1012402\">Romney aide\u2019s bogus badges: Sources detail \u2018illegal\u2019 security tactic<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Casey Ross\/ Exclusive<br \/>Boston Herald Reporter<br \/>Friday, July 20, 2007 &#8211; Updated: 12:21 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent violation of the law, a controversial aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls and trick security guards into giving them immediate access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald.<br \/>   The bogus badges were part of the bizarre security tactics allegedly employed by Jay Garrity, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">the director of operations for Romney who is under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer in two states<\/span><\/span>. Garrity is on a leave of absence from the campaign while the probe is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign source said Garrity directed underlings on Romney\u2019s presidential staff to use the badges at events nationwide to create an image of security and to ensure that the governor\u2019s events went smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just whack. These guys are impersonating an officer because it&#8217;s convenient. Your Republican morality at a glance: Laws for the but nor for me. Romney aide\u2019s bogus badges: Sources detail \u2018illegal\u2019 security tacticBy Casey Ross\/ ExclusiveBoston Herald ReporterFriday, July 20, 2007 &#8211; Updated: 12:21 PM EST In an apparent violation of the law, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}