Worcester County Sheriff Guy W. Glodis’s penchant for offensive jokes has him in hot water again, this time for a display at a bachelor party for the Milford Police chief, where he made fun of 79-year-old retired state Rep. Marie J. Parente of Milford.
According to sources familiar with the incident, the sheriff held up a poster-sized photo of a well-endowed young woman in a bikini with Mrs. Parente’s face superimposed on it, then joked that Police Chief Thomas O’Loughlin had a secret admirer.
The sheriff, who was banned from the podium at the annual St. Patrick’s Day political breakfast in South Boston after several appearances in which he told crude jokes, said yesterday he found nothing inappropriate about the gag.
“Obviously, she was not there and it was in the context of a bachelor party, which was also a roast for the police chief,” Mr. Glodis said. “I thought it was an appropriate joke.”
He added, “It did get a round of roaring laughter. I thought it was very funny.”
But Mrs. Parente, who said she heard about the joke from friends and family, said many in town were talking about it for days, noting that there were more than 300 men at the party, held Sept. 28 at a Portuguese club in Milford.
Mrs. Parente said she thought it was demeaning to the police chief as well are herself. “It was the wrong thing to do about a woman,” she said of the joke. “I am a great-grandmother, a grandmother, and a mother. This is in the community I live in. It was so degrading.”
“Absolutely it was insulting,” she added. “I ask any man out there if he would want to see his wife, mother, sister or daughter portrayed as a wild woman in that manner at a stag party.”
In an interview yesterday, Mr. Glodis said the joke was intended to play on what he understood was a longstanding rivalry between the police chief and the retired legislator.
But Mrs. Parente said she has had no rivalry with the chief and is fond of him. “The police chief is an absolute gentleman,” she said.
Mrs. Parente said she believes Mr. Glodis ridiculed her in retaliation for her support for former Worcester County Sheriff John M. “Mike” Flynn when he was challenged in a primary election by Mr. Glodis. “I signed a letter of support for Sheriff Flynn that was in the newspaper,” she said. “Glodis is well known for getting even with his enemies. This was payback.”
“He should be barred from any head tables” in the future she said. “Someone has to stop him.”
The sheriff, however, said it was all for laughs.
“It would not have been appropriate at a town meeting or a debate,” he said. “But it was in a hall, in the context of a bachelor party. It was a lighthearted jab at the rivalry between the police chief and her. It was done in good faith and in good humor.”
“If anyone makes any more of it than that, it’s just media hype,” Mr. Glodis said. “I’ve made a career about not being the blow-dried, stuffed-shirt politician that many people in the electorate are used to. I’ve always been a little rough around the edges.”
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