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@dood111 saidMarion Barry was caught smoking crack while mayor of D.C. He, of course, was re-elected after he got out of prison.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/jailed-murderer-wins-public-office-in-d-c-election-with-five-inmate-candidates-from-same-prison/?fbclid=IwAR3gXHNc-HeDST82i_8R-e5kt65F-KSUbLWiWqBKNF5oGfDBkxiO0prpInA
Democrats will elect anything I guess.
So yeah, the Dems will elect pretty much anything.
@liljo saidNot to mention being incredibly corrupt and raking in millions of dollars over the years, he didn't even try to hide it.
Marion Barry was caught smoking crack while mayor of D.C. He, of course, was re-elected after he got out of prison.
So yeah, the Dems will elect pretty much anything.
@mott-the-hoople saidThat was the all time cringiest presidential speech ever. Worse than when Obama kept referring to a Navy Corpse-Man.
kewpie just felt compelled to say something. that is the kind of person biden is trying to reach when he leans up into the microphone and whispers
@mott-the-hoople saidNo, actually, it's the stupid people in the room he's trying to reach. You know, conservatives.
kewpie just felt compelled to say something. that is the kind of person biden is trying to reach when he leans up into the microphone and whispers
@dood111 saidWas it worse than when Trump was talking about injecting bleach, or shining light in, to fight the coronavirus?
That was the all time cringiest presidential speech ever. Worse than when Obama kept referring to a Navy Corpse-Man.
From Wiki
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served four terms as Mayor of Boston. He also served a single term as Governor of Massachusetts, characterized by one biographer as "a disaster mitigated only by moments of farce" for its free spending and corruption.[10] He also served two terms, separated by 30 years, in the United States Congress and was a frequent candidate for other state and national offices. He was twice convicted of criminal behavior and notably served time in prison during his last term as mayor. He is remembered as one of the most colorful figures in Massachusetts politics.
Curley was immensely popular with his fellow working-class Roman Catholic Irish Americans. During the Great Depression, he enlarged Boston City Hospital, expanded the city's public transit system, funded projects to improve roads and bridges, and improved the neighborhoods with beaches and bathhouses, playgrounds and parks, public schools and libraries, all the while collecting graft and raising taxes. He was a leading and at times divisive force in the Massachusetts Democratic Party, challenging Boston's ward bosses and the party's White Anglo-Saxon Protestant leadership at the local and state level.
His political tactics, which tended to drive businesses and economically successful people from the city, damaging the local economy, have become a source of study for economists and political scientists.
Corrupt as the day is long and oh, so loved. People talk about him to this day.
Raised taxes, twice convicted of crimes, drove businesses out of the city.
Yes! this is a true Democrat. Four terms as Mayor and people rewarded him with electing him Governor of Massachusetts.
Yes! Democrats are wonderful caring people.