Dead Man Wins Election By Landslide

[LoKyBuckeye]

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Dead Man Wins Election By Landslide
Voters Refuse Recall Attempt

POSTED: 8:27 am EST March 16, 2006

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- An Arizona city councilman is going into the next life as a winner.

Bisbee, Ariz., voters returned incumbent Bob Kasun to office Tuesday, even though he died nine days before the election. Kasun easily defeated challenger Jeff Harris in a recall vote.

Kasun's funeral was the day before the election.

The 79-year-old four-term councilman died March 6 of lymphoma and renal failure. Both Bob Kasun and Luche Giacomino were targets of a recall campaign that accused him, among other things, of failing to represent and be accountable to his constituents.

But voters decided overwhelmingly against the two candidates who opposed them.

Giacomino said she had been confident she would survive the recall attempt, but was especially pleased that Kasun was not voted from office.

 

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of failing to represent and be accountable to his constituents.

 

[BB73]

The headline said 'Wins by Landslide', when it could have said 'Buried His Opponent'?

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

LoKy -- you read the craziest shit.. what papers or websites do you find this stuff ?????????????? The Martian Gazette??

 

[sandgk]

Now that's a turn-around. Normally you have the dead voting in droves for a candidate. Not often that the deceased is elevated to higher office, instead of to a higher plane.

Bisbee, AZ -- the new Chicago.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

this is how BinMich got to be the governor of Michigan

 

[tibor75]

Mel Carnahan won the Senate seat from Missouri despite being dead. Yep, that's how bad John Ashcroft was - he couldn't even win the Senate job over a corpse in a Republican state. And he became our Attorney General.

 

[BuckBackHome]

this is how BinMich got to be the governor of Michigan

Again, I am the governor of the great state of Denial!!!

This whole thing reminds me of how John Ashcroft lost to a dead guy back in 2000.

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

LoKy -- you read the craziest shit.. what papers or websites do you find this stuff ?????????????? The Martian Gazette??

I have several sites bookmarked that have the best stuff... most the websites are of TV stations in big cities that have "Strange News" or something like that. Yahoo and Reuters also have an "Odd News" section.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Mel Carnahan won the Senate seat from Missouri despite being dead. Yep, that's how bad John Ashcroft was - he couldn't even win the Senate job over a corpse in a Republican state. And he became our Attorney General.

I love the fact that Ashcroft couldn't beat a dead guy to a statewide seat.

 

[BuckBackHome]

I love the fact that Ashcroft couldn't beat a dead guy to a statewide seat.

Don't forget than Ashcroft was an incumbent at the time.

 

[tibor75]

Don't forget than Ashcroft was an incumbent at the time.

damn, I didn't even think about that. He really does suck.

 

[Taosman]

Some would argue that we have a zombie in the Whitehouse right now!:dead:

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

At least it didn't finish in a "dead heat"...

 

[ScarletBlood31]

Kasun's funeral was the day before the election.

Looks like they were going for the sympathy vote.