Campaign 2010

Oct 05, 2010

NRCC Sends Disturbing Message to American Families by Propping Up Scandal Plagued Jeff Perry (MA-10)

The NRCC’s decision to promote Jeff Perry (MA-10) speaks volumes about the reckless leadership they’re offering voters this November. National Republicans have repeatedly rallied around Jeff Perry, who has come under fire for his role in illegal strip searches of two teenage girls, most recently by funding attack ads to prop up his campaign, and their endorsement of his past is nothing short of disturbing. 

“The NRCC’s decision to support a scandal plagued Republican like Jeff Perry is nothing short of disturbing,” said Shripal Shah, Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  “Just like Jeff Perry stood idly by while his subordinate officer strip searched two teenage girls, Republicans in Washington are silently standing on the sidelines and doing nothing to show that they think his actions were wrong.  Their decision to prop up Jeff Perry’s campaign sends a clear message to voters about the kind of dangerous leadership they’re offering voters, and that message should worry, if not frighten, American families.”

BACKGROUND:

  • The NRCC has repeatedly propped up scandal plagued Jeff Perry’s campaign.  The NRCC has long supported Jeff Perry by touting his candidacy as a member of their “Young Guns” program and today launched television ads on his behalf. [NRCC YouTube Page, accessed 10/5/10; Cape Cod Times, 9/23/10] 
  • As a Wareham police sergeant in the early 1990’s, Jeff Perry had a role in two disturbing strip search scandals that involved teenage girls. According to the Boston Globe, “In one case, Perry was the supervisor at the scene when the officer stuck his hand in a 14-year-old girl’s underwear, ostensibly searching for drugs. In the other, Perry accompanied the same officer to the house of a 16-year-old girl to tell her parents that she had voluntarily pulled down her pants to show she did not have any drugs.” [Boston Globe, 5/15/10]

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