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stlouie_lipp wrote:Can't make this [expletive] up. Reads like an Onion article.

Despite his arrest on a felony bribery charge earlier this year, state Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago) was re-elected in Tuesday's election.

Smith was expelled by his colleagues in the state House of Representatives in August in the first such vote in over a century. The Chicago Democrat was arrested in March after he allegedly accepted a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a fictional daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. According to the criminal complaint, the informant working with the FBI delivered an envelope filled with the cash to Smith, which he accepted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 79236.html

lukethedrifter wrote:

stlouie_lipp wrote:Can't make this [expletive] up. Reads like an Onion article.

Despite his arrest on a felony bribery charge earlier this year, state Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago) was re-elected in Tuesday's election.

Smith was expelled by his colleagues in the state House of Representatives in August in the first such vote in over a century. The Chicago Democrat was arrested in March after he allegedly accepted a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a fictional daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. According to the criminal complaint, the informant working with the FBI delivered an envelope filled with the cash to Smith, which he accepted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 79236.html

Jesse Jackson Jr got re elected, right? Howzabout that a-hole MD from Tennessee that banged his patients then coerced one into getting an abortion yet sells himself as a pro lifer? He won.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11 ... ly-winning

stlouie_lipp wrote:Can't make this [expletive] up. Reads like an Onion article.

Despite his arrest on a felony bribery charge earlier this year, state Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago) was re-elected in Tuesday's election.

Smith was expelled by his colleagues in the state House of Representatives in August in the first such vote in over a century. The Chicago Democrat was arrested in March after he allegedly accepted a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a fictional daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. According to the criminal complaint, the informant working with the FBI delivered an envelope filled with the cash to Smith, which he accepted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 79236.html

Molly wrote:

stlouie_lipp wrote:Can't make this [expletive] up. Reads like an Onion article.

Despite his arrest on a felony bribery charge earlier this year, state Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago) was re-elected in Tuesday's election.

Smith was expelled by his colleagues in the state House of Representatives in August in the first such vote in over a century. The Chicago Democrat was arrested in March after he allegedly accepted a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a fictional daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. According to the criminal complaint, the informant working with the FBI delivered an envelope filled with the cash to Smith, which he accepted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 79236.html

Call me stupid (or naive) but how could his name even appear on the ballot? Can a convicted felon hold office? Or has he just not been found guilty as of yet.

Molly wrote:

stlouie_lipp wrote:Can't make this [expletive] up. Reads like an Onion article.

Despite his arrest on a felony bribery charge earlier this year, state Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago) was re-elected in Tuesday's election.

Smith was expelled by his colleagues in the state House of Representatives in August in the first such vote in over a century. The Chicago Democrat was arrested in March after he allegedly accepted a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a fictional daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. According to the criminal complaint, the informant working with the FBI delivered an envelope filled with the cash to Smith, which he accepted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 79236.html

Call me stupid (or naive) but how could his name even appear on the ballot? Can a convicted felon hold office? Or has he just not been found guilty as of yet.

jim wrote:

Molly wrote:

stlouie_lipp wrote:Can't make this [expletive] up. Reads like an Onion article.

Despite his arrest on a felony bribery charge earlier this year, state Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago) was re-elected in Tuesday's election.

Smith was expelled by his colleagues in the state House of Representatives in August in the first such vote in over a century. The Chicago Democrat was arrested in March after he allegedly accepted a $7,000 cash bribe to write an official letter of support for a fictional daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. According to the criminal complaint, the informant working with the FBI delivered an envelope filled with the cash to Smith, which he accepted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... 79236.html

Call me stupid (or naive) but how could his name even appear on the ballot? Can a convicted felon hold office? Or has he just not been found guilty as of yet.

In Illinois it's damn near a prerequisite.

Hudler wrote:I heard that two dead men got elected, one was in Alabama and the other in Florida (I think).

edit: Yup!
Earl K. Wood - Florida, Democrat running for tax collector of Orange Co. died of natural causes in Oct., too late to remove his name from the ballot. He was 96 YEARS OLD.

Charles Beasley - Alabama, Republican running for county commisioner, he was 77 years old.

heyzeus wrote:Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash three weeks before the election but still beat John Ashcroft.