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Can we get a straw poll here of our media colleagues on the political trail? Please, raise your hand if you have NOT been pulled over by Jay Garrity?

He's the Mitt Romney aide whose penchant for protecting his boss may have gone a bit overboard. Indeed, the complaints just keep surfacing. There was this, an allegation from a Fortune magazine writer. And today, still another, supposedly occurring in Tallahassee.

The Florida Democratic Party couldn't resist joining the brouhaha, sending out a release Tuesday, coinciding with a stop in the state by the Republican presidential candidate. It warned political reporters "to be on the look out for paid campaign staff impersonating law enforcement officials who may try to inhibit your ability to cover Romney's frequent flip-flops."

The release added earnestly: "This is no joke."

Well, we may beg to differ on that point, at least in terms of what it might say, depending on how matters hash out with Garrity, about Romney's personnel choices.

-- Scott Martelle

Photo: Mitt Romney; Credit:Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

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