09-05-2016, 10:11 PM
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Originally posted by Chunkster
" . . . Billy is permanently damaged as a public figure."
Finally something we can agree on. If nothing else comes out of all this, we can at least be spared the likelihood of Kenoi in some higher office.
I wouldn't bet my lunch money on that... I lived in DC for almost 30 years. Mayor Marion Barry was as popular/controversial/potentially corrupt as Billy. In 1990 Barry was caught in a hotel smoking crack with a woman who was not his wife. He was jailed for 6 months. Upon release, he ran for and was elected to the City Council. He later ran for mayor and was reelected. In subsequent years he was accused of drug possession, stalking, tax evasion and other charges, yet he continued to be reelected and served on the City Council until his death in 2014.
No one should be considered politically dead until they are physically dead.
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