Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Back in Missouri

Some of you know that I recently moved to Texas from Missouri, a state distinguished by many things, but none so entertaining as the fact that John Ashcroft was appointed to Bush's DoJ as Attorney General after having lost his race for US Senator from Missouri to a dead man. This is true. The dead man who beat him was Mel Carnahan, killed in a plane crash just before the elections.

What I didn't know is how the lost election was characterized by Mo. Senator and ex-Governor Kit Bond.

Missouri is one of the states figuring in the attorney purge story. McClatchy gives an accounting here, in which Bond's participation is noted thusly:

Joining the push to contain "voter fraud" were Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., who charged that votes by dogs and dead people had defeated Ashcroft...

Dogs and dead people voting for a dead man.

Beat that.


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