American Thinker believes this incident humanizes Romney:
Still, this incident humanizes Romney like few other things he's done. What we need are a few more vignettes of real life that would give flesh and bone to a candidate too often seen as stiff and robotic.
I could see if he was arrested for disorderly conduct because he was fighting for civil rights, equal pay or rights of the poor. No, he just wanted to put a boat in the water. Typical Romney arrogance:
According to what Romney told the Boston Globe in 1994, he had taken his family off to Wayland, Mass.'s Lake Cochituate, about an hour outside Boston, for a summer excursion. As Romney prepared to put his family boat into the water, a park officer told Romney not to launch because his license appeared to have been painted over. The officer told Romney if he put his boat into the water he would face a $50 fine.
Romney felt that his license was still visible and decided to ignore the order from the officer and pay the fine.
"I figured I was at the state park with my kids. My five kids were in the car wondering why we weren't going out in the boat, so I said I'd launch and pay the fine," Romney said in 1994. Read the rest at "American Thinker"
