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TexasTowelie

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Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:31 AM Jan 2017

Lieutenant governor's vehicle parks in spot for disabled

BARNSTABLE, Mass. — The Massachusetts State Police driver who chauffeured the lieutenant governor to Cape Cod is apologizing for parking in a spot reserved for the disabled.

A reporter for the Cape Cod Times (http://bit.ly/2jLZat9 ) photographed the black Ford Explorer in the space outside an office building in Hyannis on Thursday. There was no disabled parking placard or license plate visible on the vehicle.

Republican Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito was on the Cape to attend several events.

State police spokesman David Procopio tells the newspaper the trooper made an honest mistake and has apologized for unknowingly violating a "cardinal rule."

Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2017/01/lieutenant_governors_vehicle_parks_in_spot_for_disabled

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