WASHINGTON — A lefty trainer’s marketing campaign to knock off longtime Rep. Richard Neal in western Massachusetts is gaining nationwide consideration as left-wing insurgents take scalps across the nation in main contests — but police data obtained by The Post reveal he has a colourful rap sheet.

Jeromie Whalen, a 39-year-old highschool journalism trainer, was arrested at least twice in confrontations with authorities — accused of a drunk assault in a hospital emergency room and then almost driving his pickup truck into a home at 4 a.m. while also under the affect.

“I’m not going to say that I haven’t made mistakes in my life, but I’ve learned from mistakes that I had in my younger years,” the candidate informed The Post forward of the Sept. 1 main election — saying the earlier incidents left him realizing it was “time to shape up. It’s time to grow up.”

Jeromie Whalen, a candidate for Congress, is pictured on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. Whalen, a left-wing Democrat operating for the House, has a file including a drunken emergency room struggle and a 4 a.m. automobile crash. Jeromie Whalen for Congress

While Whalen admitted “several … run-ins with the law” — blaming it on “newfound independence and alcohol” when he got to school — he raged at the embarrassing leak, while accusing Neal of being “s–t-scared” about dropping the Sept. 1 Democratic main after 18 phrases in workplace.

“What you’ve been given is probably illegal,” Whalen informed The Post. “It’s been so long, [the records] have been sealed, and so you were given illegal documents. And that’s going to be something that’s really important moving forward.”

Whalen’s admitted run-ins, however, “raise significant questions about Whalen’s conduct, judgment and temperament,” said a supply who offered the data.

In 2006, a college-aged Whalen was arrested for misdemeanor battery in Osceola County, Fla., for allegedly drunkenly assaulting a safety guard after resisting nurses’ makes an attempt to insert an IV.

A mug shot reveals him grinning at the police station.

A mugshot of Jeromie Whalen from the Osceola County Jail. Osceola County Jail

The candidate informed The Post there were “two sides” to the story, and that he was just “refusing services.”

“They said, ‘If you go try to get by me and leave the hospital right now, we’re going to take you to jail,’” he claimed, of the case that prosecutors did not pursue.

In 2009, Whalen was arrested for a noise violation at a home celebration in Amherst, Mass., this time with out a smile in his mugshot.

A mugshot of Jeromie Whalen. Whalen, a Democratic candidate poised to be the next House incumbent slayer, has a rap sheet including a drunken ER struggle and a 4 a.m. automobile crash. Amherst Police Department

Officers were met with “uncooperative and rude” backtalk about needing a warrant to enter the premises as friends were noticed taking part in beer pong, according to a police report.

Whalen obtained a $100 noise quotation.

“The police wanted to come into the house, [but] I did not want them to come into the house,” Whalen informed The Post. “When I actually had to appear in court, the judge was just like, ‘You know, keep it down,’ and sent me on my way.”

A 12 months later, Whalen, then 23, crashed his Mazda pickup truck into the bushes 10 ft from an Amherst dwelling at 4:07 a.m., police recordsdata point out.

A diagram included in the incident report confirmed how the car swerved off a highway, narrowly lacking a phone pole and breaking its entrance axle as it careened toward the home.

Jeromie Whalen is a Democratic candidate poised to be the next House incumbent slayer. Amherst Police Department

Whalen initially declined to say whether he was drunk or under the affect of medicine at the time of the crash, saying in a Friday interview, “I can’t remember all of the things that happened.”

In a subsequent Facebook put up on Saturday night time, however, he confirmed he was busted for driving under the affect, for which he lost his driver’s license and was required to take lessons.

“After those instances, I said, ‘You know, it’s time to shape up. It’s time to grow up,’” he informed The Post.

“How do you make up for your mistakes? … You improve yourself and you improve the lives around you. And I think that if you actually look at my track record from that age of 23 to 39, I’ve done a lot of good in the community.”

Jeromie Whalen, a Democratic candidate poised to be the next House incumbent slayer, has a rap sheet that consists of a drunken ER struggle and a 4 a.m. automobile crash. Jeromie Whalen/Facebook

Whalen is locked in an more and more nasty struggle with Neal, 77, and the two will sq. off in a native TV debate this coming Wednesday.

The challenger says he doesn’t label himself as a socialist and has had registered Republicans switching events to support him.

His core points embody pushing single-payer “Medicare for All,” climbing taxes on high-income earners, adopting a $15 federal minimal wage and ending army assist to Israel.

But he informed The Post he also needs to enhance veterans care, limit Flock digital camera license-plate scanners due to privateness issues and cut back “outrageous congressional spending” to curb the nationwide debt — saying, “I’m very much in favor of working together to get the job done.”

Seven House Democrats lost primaries to challengers this 12 months and insiders believe the zeitgeist favors candidates like Whalen, who has been the topic of growing nationwide consideration — including latest profiles in NOTUS and Politico.

The trainer was endorsed Thursday by Our Revolution, the group fashioned to proceed the mission of socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 marketing campaign.

Jeromie Whalen picks up nomination papers for the United States Congress. Jeromie Whalen/Instagram

“You can’t fight for lower utility rates when you’re taking money from Eversource. You can’t advocate for affordable housing when Blackstone, the world’s largest landlord, is one of your biggest donors. You can’t fight for actual health of individuals with lower drug prescriptions when you have money rolling in from Pfizer,” Whalen informed The Post.

“The congressman waited too long. He didn’t take any of our challenge seriously.”

Neal has represented western Massachusetts since 1989 and has constructed a fame as a centrist institutionalist in coverage and fashion.

Neal has most well-liked a more gradual strategy to medical health insurance reform and caught out visually as the least-dutiful House Democrat sporting COVID-19 masks during the pandemic — typically noticed with one around his neck as colleagues scolded Republicans for flouting federal well being steerage.

The face-off follows a string of left-wing triumphs in congressional races.

Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), John Larson (D-Conn.), Al Green (D-Texas), Julie Johnson (D-Texas) and Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) are among the incumbents to lose primaries this 12 months — most to overtly progressive or self-described socialist challengers.

In a shock to nationwide Democrats, the more centrist Trump impeachment witness Alex Vindman lost the Florida Senate main Tuesday to Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won by more than 12 factors despite possessing far less marketing campaign money.

Neal’s marketing campaign did not reply to a request for remark.