Bank robber wears Mitt Romney mask

Stranger still: The same branch was robbed by someone in a Hillary Clinton mask two years ago

By David Daley

Contributing Writer

Published December 14, 2012 4:02PM (EST)

Since losing the election to President Obama, Mitt Romney has been spotted at gas stations, "Twilight" screenings and theme parks.

But the guy who robbed a bank in Virginia yesterday wasn't really Mitt -- it was just a man in a Mitt Romney mask.

A man wearing a Mitt Romney mask -- and a Florida State sweatshirt -- held up a Wells Fargo in Sterling, Va., on Thursday morning and got away with an unreported amount of cash, the Washington Post reports.

Even weirder: The same branch was robbed in 2010 by someone wearing a Hillary Clinton mask.

 


By David Daley

David Daley is the author of the new book "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections" and the national bestseller "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count." He is the former editor-in-chief of Salon.

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