Whhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????
Politics is the last thing I want to think about on a Sunday, but this story was just too much!
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(nytimes.com) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9  Brushing past months of unflattering headlines about a federal corruption investigation, Representative William J. Jefferson was elected to a ninth term on Saturday, with a decisive runoff victory that again emphasized this city’s sharp racial divisions.
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Mr. Jefferson, a Democrat, was heavily favored in black precincts, and Saturday’s result suggested that his loyal constituents ignored the accusations of an F.B.I. investigation and rallied around him, as they had in the past and as the congressman had pleaded with them to do. He has not been charged with anything, and vigorously maintains his innocence. (more…)
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More about Jefferson here.
What I bolded above is EXACTLY why I had very little to say about Cynthia McKinney all of these years: Both represent the constituents that put them there. In other words, if you’re gonna get mad at them, look at the local communities that elect them in the first place.
Another point for willing ignorance.
