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Dirty Connecticut Mayor (Sentenced To Prison For Corruption) Reelected In Landslide

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After East Chicago re-elected an accused drug dealer and murderer as councilman, we thought the bar had dropped as low as it gets for the ignorance of an electorate. But, no! Bridgeport, Connecticut residents just took the proverbial biscuit by re-electing Mayor Joseph P. Ganim - who during his last 'reign' was convicted of 16 felonies including racketeering, extortion, and bribery.

As TheAntiMedia.org's Lou Colagiovanni details, Ganim spent seven years of his life in federal prison as a result of the convictions.

Political pundits originally saw Ganim’s candidacy as a sideshow with no hope of electability, but the joke was on them. In September, Ganim defeated Bridgeport’s incumbent mayor, Bill Finch, by 400 votes during the Democratic primary.

 

Mary-Jane Foster, the Vice President of the University of Bridgeport, was Ganim’s closest opponent and lost the election by a landslide margin of almost 2 to 1. Imagine that—the voters prefered a convicted felon known for making backroom deals over an illustrious member of the community who has dedicated her life to education.

 

Foster was stunned by Ganim’s victory. I couldn’t be more surprised. I expected that I would be elected the next mayor of Bridgeport. Voters were clearly willing to give Joe Ganim a second chance,” she commented.

 

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy acknowledged Ganim’s triumph. “The voters have spoken, and I want to congratulate Joe Ganim on his victory. I am committed to moving Bridgeport forward, and, as I have said, I will continue to put the best interests of the community first,” he said.

 

Though unusual, a mayor being convicted of a felony does not automatically mean the candidate cannot win reelection. Marion S. Barry Jr., the former Mayor of Washington, D.C., was convicted of smoking crack cocaine in 1990 and sentenced to six months in prison. Barry’s arrest meant he could not run for reelection, but the voters brought him back to the mayoralty from 1995 to 1999.

 

In a showing of sheer political gamesmanship, Ganim was able to convince one of the FBI agents who originally arrested him in 2003 to endorse his campaign. Ganim was also endorsed by the local police union.

 

Ganim was gracious in victory. “We not only made history, we’ve defined a new course for this great city. Some will call this a comeback story, but for me, this is a city I feel I never left. I never stopped caring,” he said.

Time will tell if Ganim will go back to his old tricks, but for now, it seems the voters of Bridgeport prefer a man who admits to twisting arms over a more politically correct, docile candidate.

 

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Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:33 | 6847347 SillySalesmanQu...
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What little, if any hope I had of the masses waking up from their slumber....
Aaaaannnnnd, it's gone!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:44 | 6847386 NoDebt
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Anyone who still doubts Hillary Clinton can't possibly be elected president just because she's got so much corruption and crime happening in her vicinity everywhere she goes (but, of course, she has nothing to do with it) needs to take this article to heart.

 

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:50 | 6847423 malek
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But she has never been convicted! /s

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:04 | 6847640 krispkritter
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They'll elect her because she has a vagina, just like they elected Obama for his color.  PUTUS...Presidential Uterus of The United States.  

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:27 | 6847721 Vatican_cameo
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Connecticut is completely Fucked Up, I know this first hand.  Bridgeport is corruption central for the state.  They played lots of games there to get the resident Dirtball Governor Malloy back into office.  Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:43 | 6847779 BurningFuld
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Perhaps she should manually recount those ballots?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:48 | 6847934 RonArgent
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Strangely, integrity is only required of republicans. The hebrew run media has sickening double standards.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:32 | 6848043 Cynicles
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bah ha ha ha  - McCain and Graham are pillars of morality, to name just a few.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:51 | 6848102 Son of Loki
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Hillery has a very winnable platform:

 

1) higher taxes for the middle class;

2) substantial expansion of gubmint;

3) increased FSA handouts;

4) legalize all the illegals into the Democratic Party; and,

5) double the refugees.

 

With over 95 million FSA strong + 15-25 million illegals plus all the gubmint employees, it's hard for her to lose.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 23:53 | 6848531 Doña K
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Peruvian President Alan Garcia destoyed the Peruvian currency and was proven guilty, but the constitution has 10 years statute of limitations and he escaped to France. Only to return to Lima after that and get reelected overwhemingly.

Don't get it.

Maybe the image of a young rebel in full black leathers on a Hurley Davindson, mesmerized the chicas and the "blessed the meek" crowd. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:30 | 6847734 J S Bach
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Sadly, this is why "democrazy" is a doomed-to-fail system.  Most people do not have the brains, conscience nor civic-minded understanding of their responsibilities as mature citizens to perpetuate the system for their offspring.  For a civilization to grow and thrive, it must have an elite MORAL leadership whose tenets are based on truths.  Our world today is governed by the complete opposite - thus, my opinion that this era will surely be known as "The Great Insanity".

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:34 | 6847902 nmewn
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Let me guess, he ran on a moar Faaarrreee Shit! platform.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:43 | 6848026 Radical Marijuana
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Indeed so,

J.S. Bach!

In my view the fundamental driving force has been the history of successful warfare based upon backing up deceits with destruction, morphing to become successful finance based on enforcing frauds.

"The Great Insanity" has its source in the ways that it is entirely possible to control civilization through backing up lies with violence, which never stops those lies from still being false, but which nevertheless drive vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS. "Democrazy" is doomed to failure due to the runaway social successfulness of those vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS still never being able to stop those FRAUDS from being FALSE. Each short to medium term success based upon being able to operate the established systems, whereby governments enforced frauds by privately controlled banks, drive society as a whole to become more psychotic, in the sense of more out of touch with relatively objective realities.

At the present time, civilization is almost totally dominated by the best professional hypocrites, resulting in that civilization more and more becoming a Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World, where everything is presented to the public in absurdly backwards ways to what actually exists. The degree to which almost everyone takes for granted thinking using the dominate natural languages, and the dominate philosophy of science, is difficult to fully comprehend, because of the degree to which WE SO PROFOUNDLY THINK IN WAYS WHICH ARE ABSURDLY BACKWARDS!

I apply that insight to your statement:


... their responsibilities as mature citizens to perpetuate the system for their offspring.  For a civilization to grow and thrive, it must have an elite MORAL leadership whose tenets are based on truths.

The essential problem is that the essential aspect of politics must be to operate the human murder systems, as the most extreme forms of the human death control systems, as the central core to the human artificial selection systems, which must necessarily exist due to natural selection pressures. However, the existing artificial selection systems were driven by natural selection pressures to become most socially successful by becoming the most deceitful and treacherous. That was, indeed, consistent with the overall understanding of how natural selection pressures were internalized as human intelligence, and applied to create the artificial selection systems of civilizations, which evolved primarily due to the history of warfare, while that segued into the history of economics, where the powers of the surviving War Kings morphed to become the powers of the Fraud Kings.

The deep dilemmas with respect to having more "mature citizens" that would support an "MORAL leadership whose tenets are based on truths," are that those would most of all have to take more conscious responsibility for operating better death control systems. However, at the present time, that is politically impossible, due to the history of successful warfare having been based on deceits and treacheries. Hence, what actually exists now are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies, which are dominated by the best available professional hypocrites, who are most socially successful by lying about that.

There is now almost nothing but a core of triumphant organized crime (bankster controlled governments), surrounded by layers of controlled opposition groups, who stay within the same frame of reference based upon the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals. More "mature citizens" would have to accept that they were members of an organized crime gang called their country, in order to become more competent citizens.

Their "elite MORAL leadership" would have to take responsibility for operating better death control systems. However, actually doing so is in a head-on collision with thousands of years of history that selected for the most socially successful death control systems to be operated through the maximum possible deceits and treacheries, which then became the foundation for political economy based upon governments enforcing frauds by privately controlled banks. The series of short to medium term successes based upon POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS have worse and worse longer term consequences. The excessive successfulness of controlling civilization through applications of the principles and methods of organized crime result, in the longer term, in that civilization as a whole manifesting runaway criminal insanities.

There is NO DOUBT that we are now living inside of "The Great Insanity," which has been getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate, due to prodigious progress in physical science, enabling technologies which are trillions of times more capable and powerful to end up being primarily applied through social pyramid systems, which were always based upon backing up lies with violence. More and more sophisticated and integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, have developed, to become globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs. There has been series of profound paradigm shifts in physical science, enabling awesome progress in technologies. However, nothing like that has been allowed to happen in political science! Instead, there are growing Grand Canyon Chasms getting wider and WIDER between progress in physical science, without that being integrated and surpassed by progress in political science.

The currently established sociopolitical systems are necessarily based upon governments being the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. The news reported in the article above is TRIVIAL compared to the degree to which the Wall Street banksters' political puppets tend to get re-elected, so that about 99% of the politicians that run the government of the USA are orders of magnitude worse a mere mayor in Connecticut!

Since the entire political economy is based upon the social successfulness of governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by privately controlled banks, that has resulted in almost everyone deliberately ignoring the principle of the conservation of energy as much as possible, while deliberately misunderstanding the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways possible. Prodigious progress in physical science has enabled social pyramid systems to develop electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs. However, the profound paradigm shifts in the basic ways that the ideas about time and space were changed by that progress in physical science (including the ways that the understanding of entropy ought to also have changed, since entropy is the distribution of energy through time and space), have NOT had anything remotely like that be developed in the various old-fashioned religions and ideologies that continue to dominate political affairs.

In my view, it is possible to reconcile human systems of artificial selection within natural selection. However, doing so requires that one take the principle of the conservation of energy much more seriously, as well as reverse the enormous errors that have occurred in the history of science, due to the series of compromises with the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, such as how the concept of entropy in thermodynamics and information theory was totally inverted by inserting arbitrary minus signs into their entropy equations.

The history of warfare was organized crime on larger and larger scales. The history of economics took place inside of that history of warfare. I repeat, the powers of the surviving War Kings, that made the sovereign states, were effectively privatized by the Fraud Kings, through the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS. At the same time, the vast majority of "We the People" were deliberately brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit, which primarily became the banksters' bullshit. The most scientific brainwashing that money could buy was applied to reduce the majority of the population to becoming "Zombie Sheeple." Hence, the "democrazy" world!

In that context, J.S. Bach, you are certainly CORRECT that:

Our world today is governed by the complete opposite ... "The Great Insanity".

HOWEVER, I think you have grossly understated the degree to which that is so, and therefore, grossly underestimate the magnitude of the problems which would be associated with "mature citizens & MORAL leadership whose tenets are based on truths," because actually doing so would not be possible without series of profound paradigm shifts in political science, which would have to integrate and surpass those paradigm shifts already achieved in physical science, particularly with respect to general energy systems, and the basic conceptualization of time and space, and therefore, also how we think about entropy.

OUR PROBLEMS are the development of electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, while at the same time none of the ways of thinking that enabled that kind of progress in physical science has been allowed to develop through political science. Rather, all of the established sociopolitical systems are being operated by the best available professional hypocrites, promoting the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals, rather than based upon using unitary mechanisms, through understanding human beings and civilization as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows.

Since our culture almost totally takes for granted thinking about entropy in absurdly backward ways, and does not come remotely close to changing the ways that we think about time and space, in order to respect the profound paradigm shifts that have already occurred regarding those in physical science, there are developing bigger and BIGGER sets of consistent contradictions due to the advancing globalized electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs, whose more and more intense paradoxes are the essence of "The Great Insanity!"

More "mature citizens" and "an elite MORAL leadership whose tenets are based on truths" would necessarily have to become more scientific about themselves. All private property is based on backing up claims with coercions. There is no private property outside of some system of public violence. The most abstract forms of that are the ways that money is measurement backed by murder, which are the ways that human beings and civilization have developed information theory and thermodynamics. Those have been developed in ways whereby those are publicly presented in the most absurdly backward ways possible, such as that we mostly continue to think about time, space, and entropy in ways which have been proven to be totally wrong, but which the vast majority of people continue to presume are correct.

Governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, because human beings and civilization necessarily operate as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows, which most closely match the principles and methods of organized crime, because the most essential things that must be done are the ways that artificial selection channels natural selection pressures, which means that the human death controls are at the core of everything else, with the human murder systems being the most extreme forms of those.

"Our world today is governed by the complete opposite," due to the degree that the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals get away with presenting those social facts about themselves in the most absurdly backward ways possible. Their bullshit, based upon the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, almost totally dominate everything, such that professional hypocrites have almost total control over civilization, in ways which increasing manifest "The Great Insanity!"

While human beings and civilization are NOT actually able to violate the laws of nature, since the only connection between the laws of man and the laws of nature is the ability to back up lies with violence, our society has become as psychotic as it could possibly become, through the triumphant promotion of the biggest bullies' bullshit, that they are somehow not the biggest gangsters, controlled by the best organized gangsters. The vast majority of citizens can not become more competent, because they have almost nothing but controlled opposition groups to turn to, which are surrounding the core organized crime groups.

The ONLY way that a more and more technologically based civilization MIGHT survive the prodigious progress in physical science enabling the development of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic weapons, would be for that civilization to go through series of profound paradigm shifts in the ways that it thinks about its political problems! To the degree that we collectively fail to do that, our civilization will continue to become even more psychotic, and continue towards committing collective suicide. The established debt slavery systems, developed through the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS, have become runaway debt insanities, which are threatening to provoke unprecedented levels of death insanities as the consequences in the foreseeable future.

However, the only genuinely realistic resolutions to those real problems would require the development of better death control systems, to back up better debt control systems, so that the overall economic activities of civilization would not be still so dominated by fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems. Since human beings and civilization necessarily live as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows, we must continue to operate through the dynamic equilibria of different systems of organized lies operating robberies. However, we could and should correct the enormous errors regarding how we currently are thinking about ourselves doing those things.

At the present time, those dynamic equilibria have become extremely unbalanced, and are automatically getting more so, due to the degree to which the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals are able to continue to get away with pretending that they are not doing that, while most of the controlled opposition groups that surround that core of organized crime also promotes bogus "solutions" based upon the same old-fashioned impossible ideals, that always backfire badly and cause the opposite to happen in the real world, because they misunderstand their mechanisms in the most absurdly backward ways possible.

The article above was merely another particular, apparently relatively over the top, example of the degree to which criminals are successfully controlling civilization, due to the best professional hypocrites relatively routinely being able to win elections. The world of politics today is mostly the banksters' political puppets, being voted for by enough of the masses of muppets, in order to keep the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS going and growing ...

At the present time, the Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World's GREAT INSANITY continues getting worse, faster ... The ability of some human beings to understand and apply the laws of nature continues to advance in many particular ways, BUT, THAT IS NOT APPLIED THROUGH POLITICAL SCIENCE TO MORE SCIENTIFICALLY UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEINGS AND CIVILIZATION, DUE TO THAT REQUIRING PROFOUND PARADIGM SHIFTS, WHICH NONE OF THE CURRENTLY SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL HYPOCRITES WOULD LIKE!

Generally speaking, almost everyone wants to continue to believe in their favourite bullshit social stories, that they previously developed to want to believe in. All of the currently dominate religions and ideologies tend to continue to take for granted thinking about time and space, and therefore entropy too, in the most absurdly backward ways possible. The profound paradigm shifts in physical science, that have enabled the development of technologies like electronic communications and atomic energy, have, so far, done almost nothing to change people's political ideas. Hence, "The Great Insanity" automatically getting worse, faster, due to the dominate sociopolitical systems all being operated by the best available professional hypocrites, who deeply do not want to become more scientific about themselves and what they are really doing.

Theoretically, radical intellectual scientific revolutions in political science are necessary, and those should be applied through radical changes in the ways that we perceive our political problems, and so, operate our combined money/murder systems. Doing that would provide the content required for more "mature citizens" and "an elite MORAL leadership whose tenets are based on truths" to become more scientific about themselves.

However, it is painfully obvious that we are NOT headed in that direction, but rather, are rapidly heading towards the established debt slavery systems driving their debt insanities towards provoking death insanities, all of which will probably become such unprecedented levels of "The Great Insanity" as to make whatever MIGHT survive through that be extremely unpredictable!

Tragically, you appear to be all too correct that:

Most people do not have the brains, conscience nor civic-minded understanding of their responsibilities as mature citizens to perpetuate the system for their offspring.

The most egregious criminals, as long as they are the best available professional hypocrites, tend to continue to be the most socially successful politicians, despite upholding treasons, and therefore, that "democrazy" continues to get crazier and crazier!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 23:55 | 6848538 Doña K
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Interesting, but I think you should get your own blog.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 00:13 | 6848579 Radical Marijuana
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Actually, I run my own fringe political party, and use its Web site Forum like my personal diary. Meanwhile, I merely pass the time amusing myself by reading Zero Hedge content, which sometimes provokes me to think out loud in response.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 01:08 | 6848661 ImReady
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Good to see you posting again 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 02:26 | 6848748 roddy6667
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Democracy always ends because the citizens discover it is easier to vote themselves part of the treasury than work. When the tipping point of working vs. parasites is reached, it rapidly turns into a totalitarian goverrnment. 

There are no exceptions to this rule.

Watch the movie "Ideocracy". Tell me if this a prediction of the future, or a description of what we have now.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 09:04 | 6849066 GhostOfDiogenes
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Shut up!

Ouch my balls with the kardashians is coming on!
Shut him up!

Can I get some muscle over here?!?

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:22 | 6849280 HardlyZero
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Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" was made into a movie around the late 90's with Bruce Willis (and Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Buck Henry, Owen Wilson) as a superior car salesman and the surrounding "economy".  A microcosm of the macrocosm.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:39 | 6847915 A Nanny Moose
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As if a conviction would make any difference. Criminals will always rise to top of The State because The State has monopoly on crime.

We Marion Barry'd some folks.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 23:30 | 6848481 fleur de lis
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A conviction is impressive on a political resume. Anyone who is honorable, efficient, competent, etc., is clearly not part of the ruling clique and will be obstructed from getting things done.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:18 | 6847697 graneros
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Hey ND I agree with you. Not only do we have millions of incredibly brain dead legal voters but add in the unorchestrated (individuals voting as many times as possible) and coordinated Progressive cheating (community organizers taking busloads of elderly, sick, and those just looking for a free lunch) not to mention the millions of illegal immigrants who will be voting and Hilary has it made in the shade. I've said from day one if Hilary runs she wins. The Democratic Party will NOT allow her to lose.  I don't care if the true vote is 4 to 1 in favor of Trump, Cruz, or whoever she runs against she simply will not lose this race.

It will come down to a few states where they know they can bend the shit out of the lax voting laws. Once again we will see voter turnouts in certain districts reaching impossible levels.

We aint seen nothing yet in terms of civil disobedience. In 2016/17 all hell is gonna break loose. This has to be how things sere in Europe in the late 1930's. Tension so thick you can cut it with a dull butter knife; people engaging in bloody and lethal street fights on a regular basis. I guess it is just what humans do. We must be genetically programmed for constant warfare.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:28 | 6847729 Baa baa
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Dominance

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 08:34 | 6849018 Joenobody12
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I am tired of pundit opinions who the next president may be. Regardless of who he/she may be there can be only one person for the US presidency. Netanyahu is his name, Israeli interest comes first is his game. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:43 | 6847387 SILVERGEDDON
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Muricans love a success story.

New heroes of the age - thieves who steal from the people they are elected to represent.

Look at Congress, the Senate, state reps, their senators, Wall Street, the IRS, the Fed, sonovabitch, the thieving bastards are everywhere !

Until bribery, corruption and theft while serving in public office is a capital crime, punishable by death, look for more of the same.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:14 | 6847677 NutSEC
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Until we create some sort of death penalty people will continue to commit homicides!!! Har har!!!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:51 | 6847422 A Dutch on Meth
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Everyone gets the leaders they deserve.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:11 | 6847851 MissCellany
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Except for the ones who don't deserve (or need) leaders...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:15 | 6847683 chrsn
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America:  Plutocracy, oligarchy, or kakistocracy?

All of the above

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:33 | 6848048 Cynicles
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CA Gov Jerry Moonbeam Brown?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 23:25 | 6848470 fleur de lis
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It's over. Connecticut is so cooked. Stick a fork in it.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:17 | 6849667 vollderlerby
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The only time that the free shit army loses an election is if those fat fucks don't have it in them to get off the couch every other year to vote for their free shit candidate.  I'm surprised they had it in them to get their asses up and actually go vote for this guy.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:34 | 6847351 djsmps
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Bridgetport is the stinking arm pit of Connecticut. I always thought it was mob controlled.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:37 | 6847362 knukles
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It is.  Used to be almost next door to it.  Terrible place.  Big commercial town amongst the NYC bedroom communities.  Where the help lives.
Rhode Island is mob controlled as well

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:59 | 6847446 Buckaroo Banzai
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Bridgeport is a sinkhole of election shenanigans as well. This guy didn't get elected, he got selected.

Malloy got re-elected thanks to the Bridgeport and New Haven polls being held open late (on flimsy bullshit pretexts) so that sufficient votes could be manufactured to swing the results. There are voting precincts in these cities where literally every single vote is reported as being Democrat.

The entire state is corrupt. There is a reason why Newtown was selected as the Sandy Hook false-flag site: because all the politicians in charge could be relied upon to do exactly what they were told.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:00 | 6847456 A Man of Wealth...
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Rhode Island also had its felon mayor in Vincent J Cianci.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:29 | 6847731 WillyGroper
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DIEbold.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:00 | 6847830 nosam
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I lived in Bridgeport for a while. It is known as the asshole of America, quite rightly.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 11:07 | 6849297 HardlyZero
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Conneticut to the north of Manhattan.  New Jersey to the west.  All supprting the Street. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:38 | 6847367 wisefool
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The clinton foudation will correct any tax forms that showed mafesance. In Hind Sig Hiet. /sarc

super sarc/ If you are allowed to vote, Hillary will be on the ballot in 2016.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:39 | 6847369 buzzsaw99
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Idiocracy in action.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:40 | 6847373 coast
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Stupid voters + rigged elections = death to America....even common core knows it..and isis is our threat to freedom?  Lol

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 13:18 | 6849674 vollderlerby
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Right on.  The rigged elections aren't even necessary to your equation, but they have sure sped things up :)

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:44 | 6847395 Theta_Burn
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This is fucked up..

As a non-violent felon myself, I'm banned for life in regards to owning a firearm, or holding a liquor licence..

And this jagoff is RE-elected to high office.

Aint justice great?

 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:47 | 6847410 Lookout Mountain
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Definitely f-d up. Our system is "justice" means "just us". As for you, you should have all rights restored, as should anyone who is non-violent. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:41 | 6848076 gonetogalt
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Petition the court that sentenced you to restore your civil rights. Might work.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 02:24 | 6848753 roddy6667
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Apply for a pardon. Google "pardon" and "attorney". Find a lawyer who specializes in it. There are many. It will cost you 4 or 5 K, but well worth it. Buy a used car instead of a new one and change your life.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:47 | 6847407 Big Corked Boots
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If any of you people have been to Bridgeport, you would not be surprised at the election outcome.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:49 | 6847416 Theta_Burn
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Remember Marrion Barry? that guy was a pisser, AND could party...

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:47 | 6847408 Theta_Burn
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Joseph Ganim is that you downvoting everyone?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:48 | 6847414 Lookout Mountain
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Ain't democracy grand?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:16 | 6847511 Stuck on Zero
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It's not a Democracy unless the candidates are equally presented to the voters. If one candidate has all the money and buys all press then it's not a Democratic election - it's a shitshow.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:56 | 6847442 Who was that ma...
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Voters have come to expect racketeering, bribery, extortion, and at least 13 other felonies from those whom they elect to office so Ganim's convictions merely served to confirm that he was eminently qualified for the job.  Way to go Mayor Ganim.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:18 | 6847687 NutSEC
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The very definition of government is a monopoly on force. Taxes ARE extortion. You can't be a politician without accepting extortion and bribery, that's the hilarious part. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:56 | 6847444 WhatTheHellisHa...
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This is really fucked up. Drug dealing murderers for office.. Hooray! I knew it was bad but at least they kept that stuff in the dark. Now they just brag about it and people in Chicago are like "my nigga" and vote him in.

All hope is lost.. just enjoy the show. It's all we can do at this point.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 17:57 | 6847450 silverer
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What does this say about the voters, the majority of who are democrats?  They prefer crimnals to run the country?  Screw them.  I don't have to listen to them anymore about anything.  They've lost all credibility.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:25 | 6847716 Spiritof42
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What does this say about the voters, the majority of who are democrats?  They prefer crimnals to run the country?

Another sign of decay. No more pretense. It's now in the open.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:00 | 6847459 GhostOfDiogenes
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"Ganim was also endorsed by the local police union"

Well shucks by golly gee he sounds like a crooked informant.

The voters didn't elect him.

The government did.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 03:53 | 6848302 Parrotile
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You may wish to remember this when the "Presidental" elections come around next year.

(Assuming WW3 has not started / finished by then. Seems the West is "making progress" in that particular direction)

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:10 | 6847478 Jayda1850
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Baltimore will be the next city to re-elect a corrupt mayor. Sheila Dixon, who had to resign the last time she was mayor for stealing gift cards from poor children. She is leading by a 2-1 margin.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:11 | 6847495 yogibear
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Seems like the animals in this animal farm likes it's keepers to be fully corruptible.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:25 | 6847532 22winmag
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Cocksucking police unions would endorse the Prince of Darkness if it meant raises or better benefits.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:34 | 6847562 sTls7
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It's happening all over this country... corrupt are elected again and again... nothing new here.  move on.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:39 | 6847576 NuYawkFrankie
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Racketeering & Extortion? Was this guy moonlighting for the IRS?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:43 | 6847587 didthatreallyhappen
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that state is a joke, an economic mess and they have nazi gun laws now

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 18:58 | 6847631 roddy6667
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Bridgeport has a large black population and a high crime rate, It is known as "Breezh Po". Maybe next, the mayor of Waterbury, who was convicted of having sex with small children IN HIS OFFICE, will be reelected.

I lived in CT for 65 years. It has changed so much.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:19 | 6847699 Spiritof42
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If I recall, Bridgeport was an industrial city 65 years ago. I guess it's all gone now, like Detroit.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:14 | 6847678 yellowsub
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Felons can't vote in most states but surely you're fit to hold elected office and other gov't position.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:23 | 6847707 Eahudimac
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WTF. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter. Fuckin' retartds. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:28 | 6847727 GMadScientist
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What the fuck self-respecting elections board doesn't have rules about convictions on their books?!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:37 | 6847750 USSLiberty
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So, Ganim doesn't qualify to even work at McDonald's, but he can run for mayor? I'm guessing he wasn't allowed to vote for himself at the polls, due to the felonies. This is a fucked up country!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:39 | 6847765 WTFUD
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Everyone in a position of Power is on the Take. If he's a son of the soil and looks after his community then better him than an outsider with connections to Goldman/JPM.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 19:57 | 6847820 Boozer
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My business had several unexplained "break ins" in the late 90's.  Well it turned out the FBI

was laying wires (never so much as a napkin went missing) to record the crew while they ate.

Food was good and the girls I hired were hot, hence they were there often.  He was nice guy

from my dealings with him.  Should of plead out and done the six months home confinement.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:01 | 6847834 Ms No
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Chicago... the great American city where you can't even keep a catalytic converter in your car.  It's not the only place that is that bad off, you can't keep one in your car in Somalia either.  What a great accomplishment and I am sure that this racketeering crook will be one in a long line of gems to be involved in the local politics.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:09 | 6847846 Ms No
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Oops, it's CT.... the shit is spreading!  You guys should move out here, just don't bring any damn Neoliberals with you.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:31 | 6847895 sbenard
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Proverbs 29:2

When the wicked rule, the people mourn. Prepare to mourn MORE!

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 23:43 | 6847901 Rhal
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As long as he's never been caught with a hooker he's a prime candidate. 

That's always puzzled me about American voters: decisions in office are irrelevant, but if their bedroom life shows one toe out of line they are driving from politics. I guess that made the main stream media feel more powerful than Bill Clinton, Eric Massa, Mark Souder, ... (it's a long list). 

I guess they're right, the media is more powerful that the politicians. 

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 20:42 | 6847922 whatswhat1@yahoo.com
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Just-Stop-Voting.   Politicians became superflous when the internet became ubiquidious.  Almost everyone owns a drone phone.  Every issue goes to vote.  Vote on your drone phone or suffer the consequences.   Imagine....an political election where the total vote count is zero.  Who wins?  We all do.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 21:02 | 6847961 Rikky
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F*ck Bridgeport and every other progressive liberal cesspool.  The USA is rotting from within by these turds that parade around like they're more enlightened by everyone else.  I hope when the shit hits the fan it hits these enablers first.

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 22:01 | 6848149 kiwimail
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So tell me, who counted the votes???

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 22:21 | 6848235 GRDguy
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When the biggest percentage of Bridgeport lie and steal for their living, what do you expect?  Of course, they'll deny it.

Everyone does it, right?

Fri, 11/27/2015 - 23:38 | 6848497 damicol
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"we thought the bar had dropped as low as it gets for the ignorance of an electorate. "

pffft piffle.

Nothing, Whats wrong, blind or something,, You want to see the sheer fucking ignorance of fucking democrats, the sheer fucking insanity of the brain dead morons.

How about voting for s stinking nigger faggot conceived in bestiality and dropped from a monkey cunt in the Kenyan jungle, a fucking deranged rabid arse bandit given to promiscuous trolling of low life fat white boys in stinking dens of iniquity and filthy diseases, where its mental state is attuned to murder cock and corruption and lies and theft and assholes to fuck, that still hasn't by some miracle yet been executed by being dragged ankle chained to a fucking sewage truck, not once, but fucking TWICE.

Fuck, maybe democrats are getting smarter not dumber by voting for these fucking low lifes

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 06:54 | 6848940 SoDamnMad
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I'm rootin for Putin.

 

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 08:44 | 6849033 Joenobody12
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Democracy is over rated. In the future, may be in our life time, artificial intelligence will rule the day. No more BS politicians , no more lawyers, no more bankers. As human beings cannot manage themeselves, AI will take over. Some experts predicted that singularity of AI (where machine acquire the ability to think like human) will occur in 15 years. Bank on it.

Sat, 11/28/2015 - 10:53 | 6849261 TheObsoleteMan
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Sometimes it is a badge of honor to have the establishment go after a politician. If Jim Traficant was still alive, he would tell you so. This guy must have not "played ball", so they threw all of this dirt on him, who knows how much of it was actually true. The real crooks are the ones you never hear about until they retire 30 or 40 years later. Or the ones who are 'Teflon", nothing sticks because they have dirt on everybody else, like Hillary does. For any of this stuff to make any sense, you have to start looking at American politics like the Mafia, because that is what it is, then it all makes sense.

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