Story from The National Memo:
Madden, a native Texan who graduated from Stanford in 1970 and went on to become a successful television producer and writer, has never forgotten that strange moment, which he has recounted to friends over the years as he observed his former classmate’s political ascent. The National Memo learned of the incident from a longtime Madden friend to whom he had mentioned it years ago.
Said Madden in a recent interview, “He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler.”
In Madden’s recollection, confirmed by his wife Susan, who also attended Stanford during those years, “we thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him,” although both Madden and Romney were prep school boys living in the same dorm, called Rinconada.
Other eyewitnesses have previously recalled Romney’s alleged use of a police or trooper uniform in pranks during his high school years at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. Other former classmates described Mitt as a “happy-go-lucky guy known less for his achievements and more for his pranks.”
In The Real Romney, a biography published by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman this year, another former friend recalled how Romney had “put a siren on top of his car and chased two of his friends who were driving around with their dates.” The two friends were in on the scheme, but the girls were not. There was beer in the car trunk, according to a prearranged plan. Mitt told his two counterparts to get out of their vehicle and into his car. Then they drove off, leaving the girls behind.
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Hundreds of thousands of men Mitt Romney ’s age got uniforms in those days the old fashioned way, by being drafted into military service. Mitt Romney avoided that with four consecutive draft deferments that he obtained that allowed him to, like his father before him and his sons after him, avoid combat in the war of his era, the Vietnam War.
~ From Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC:
Impersonating a police officer was bad enough. He is now hoping to get the chance to impersonate a president. He should learn to do more than just impersonate a human first.
~ comment by Phal4875 on Huff Post
I'm betting ($10K) that it comes out and they dismiss it as a Halloween costume he had laying around.
comment by eXtina on Daily Kos
I've had doubts about Mitt Romney's mental health 4 a while. State Trooper Uniform story seals the deal. All about the power, power, power
— Sharon E (@Xaron4) June 7, 2012
Are the stories about Romney impersonating a state trooper true? One of the last things the USA needs is a cop wanna-be in the White House.
— AspenDew (@aspendew) June 7, 2012
BREAKING: Mitt Romney now claims his police uniform was from his tryout for "The Village People". #p2 #YMCA #fb
— Joseph J. Santorsa (@Marnus3) June 7, 2012
Mitt Romney is the first robot to dress as a police officer and not try to kill John Connor. on.cc.com/LB5199
— Indecision (@indecision) June 7, 2012
Police On My Back fdl.me/JQnsFr from @firedoglake Mitt Romney is not the Zodiac Killer no matter what you may have heard
— TBogg (@tbogg) June 7, 2012
Romney impersonating a police officer; this is spooky and disturbing! Not normal! thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/msnbc-romney-l… #WomenForObama #Obama2012
— Susie Que (@TheSusieQue) June 7, 2012
Here’s the problem. Romney impersonated a uniform police officer. That’s a crime.
— TheGreeper (@33Greeper) June 7, 2012
If Romney really drove around Detroit in a police uniform, pulling cars over in his Rambler, he belongs in da Big House, not the White House
— Memphis Foto (@sommarnatten) June 7, 2012
I guess what shocks me as much as anything is that Officer Romney drove a Ramblerbit.ly/Lfty54#Mitt2012 #p2 #tcot
— Blue DuPage (@BlueDuPage) June 7, 2012
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