Reversing The Process
In the wake of Rick Perry’s wink-and-nod announcement yesterday that he might seek another term in 2010, some political observers noted the irony of an AP story earlier in the week about a federal inmate in Beaumont who qualified for Idaho’s presidential primary ballot next month.
Usually, politicians do time after being elected.
The inmate, Keith Russell Judd, is serving time for unspecified threats made years ago at the University of New Mexico. According to AP , he submitted the required notarized form and $1,000 check drawn on his prison account, jotting down the Beaumont Enterprise news desk phone number as his campaign contact and an IRS number in Ohio for his campaign coordinator.
“It’s a mockery of the system,” complained an Idaho state Democratic Party spokesman — probably because he hadn’t yet heard the news about Rick Perry.
Posted on April 18, 2008 – 10:29 am by APR