Today’s Globe (front page, below the fold) shows that MA-10 congressional candidate Jeff Perry’s record at the Wareham Police Department wasn’t so great after all. The testimony, taken during the trial arising out of his subordinate’s illegal strip-searches of teenaged girls, is pretty devastating. And this is based only on a partial transcript – there is almost certainly more to come.
Congressional candidate Jeffrey D. Perry, a former officer in the Wareham Police Department, was reprimanded by supervisors for being untruthful and was passed over for promotion because of it, according to sworn testimony of the police chief at the time.
The chief, Thomas A. Joyce, testified in civil lawsuits that he gave Perry a written reprimand after Perry broke a radar gun and failed to tell the “whole truth” about how it happened. Joyce also said that Perry played what was called “the old red light game,” in which Perry purposely tripped a red light to catch drivers going through it, “creating motor vehicle violations,” according to the testimony, which was obtained by the Globe.
When Perry was in line to be promoted from patrol officer to sergeant in 1989 or 1990, Joyce chose someone lower on the list who had more experience and whom Joyce said he trusted more. “Perry had not been 100 percent truthful to me in the past,” Joyce testified.
In addition, during a background check before Perry was hired by Wareham police, his former boss said Perry told “a lot of bull tales” and should not be trusted with a gun, Joyce testified.
This, despite Perry’s repeated assertions that he “left the department in good standing.” That may be technically true. But that he received a written reprimand for dishonesty; that he was passed over for a promotion for that same reason; that he apparently has a history of toying with the truth; oddly, Perry hadn’t mentioned any of that before.
Of course, this is not the first time that Perry’s increasingly unreliable memory has been at variance with reality. And this story isn’t over, folks – not by a long shot. The Globe today reports that it “obtained a partial transcript” of Chief Joyce’s deposition. Sooner or later, though, all the transcripts will come out. For the sake of the Mass. GOP, I hope it’s sooner, so that they can toss Perry under the bus and line up behind Joe Malone, who, though not without his problems, has been vetted more thoroughly than Perry apparently had.
Clearly, Chief Joyce is a flaming liberal communist Nazi. Either that or Perry is the victim of the infamous “liberal courtroom transcript bias”.< /snark>
liberal media bias (which includes liberal court reporter bias) is the greatest threat facing America today, according to prominent Perry-backer Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).
That former chief Joyce’s testimony is credible in any way?
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p>See:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com…
how that has any bearing on the Chief’s testimony, many years earlier, about incidents that are totally unrelated to the subject of that story, which by the way does not appear to call Joyce’s credibility on anything into question. But feel free to point out the connections.
…consequently, I wouldn’t trust anything he testified about (in particular, matters relating to management of the police department or individuals under his command).
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p>Further, I think his judgement in suing a journalist while a public official casts further doubt upon his character:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/war…
The case was subsequently SLAPPed out of court:
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/…
Please stop these awful stories about Jeff Perry! No more stories! No more negatives!
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p>UNTIL after Jeff Perry wins the primary – then let the fun begin!
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Burlington Maul is suggesting that he’d much rather have the Democratic candidate run against a mortally-wounded Jeff Perry in the November election (after the primary) than against any other (and potentially better) Republican candidate.
He should resign his candidacy now. Any answers he might come up with will only make him look stupider. (Love that word.) And although I am the last person to worry about such things, he is a growing embarrassment to the Republican Party’s effort to put good candidates forward.