Romney: Police Commissioner Should Resign After ‘Vile’ Comment On Obama

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Mitt Romney slammed the Wolfeboro, N.H. police commissioner for calling President Obama the n-word and refusing to apologize.

“The vile epithet used and confirmed by the commissioner has no place in our community,” Romney, who owns a vacation home in Wolfeboro, said in a statement to the Boston Herald published on Saturday. “He should apologize and resign.”

After a town resident complained that she heard Police Commissioner Bob Copeland use the n-word when referring to Obama, Copeland confirmed that he did use the word.

“I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse (sic),” he wrote in an email to the resident, obtained by Manchester TV station WMUR. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”

Wolfeboro residents are also demanding that Copeland resign. Town Manager David Owen told WMUR that although he believes the police commissioner’s comments were “reprehensible,” he doesn’t have the authority to remove Copeland.

Correction: The headline of this post initially referred to Copeland as a cop. He is not a police officer, but sits on the town’s police commission, which oversees the police force’s budget and salaries.

[H/t Huffington Post]

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  1. So Romney is working on his image. First supporting a minimum wage, and now this. Anybody fooled?

  2. I’m going to cut Mitt some slack here. He might still be a massive tool, but he did the right thing in this instance.

    Look at it this way: how many other nationally prominent GOPers have done this?

  3. Get me smelling salts! A Republican stands up to the vile racist crap being spewed about Obama.

    Also, I’m sure this has nothing NOTHING to do with Mitt makin’ a comeback. Nope.

  4. lol Ole mitt, did you get the same testosterone rush when you did the mittens slam to obama during the debate which you failed miserably at? As far as copeland goes, remove and replace, give him the school crossing job for the rest of his term if he will take it.

  5. Yes, listen to the guy whose church didn’t let in blacks until the 1970’s.

    If anyone knows racism…

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