$90K in the freezer gets you...re-election
I can't flaming believe this. N'awlins elected a CROOK over a BLACK WOMAN, largely because the "wrong people" supported her.
But I found this grimly amusing:
The law firm Jefferson founded became the largest black-owned practice in the South. He created a political organization, the Progressive Democrats, which fielded candidates for the school board, assessors' races, state House seats and mayoral contests.
When we discuss similar organizations of the 19th century, the term used is "machine". Why not now?
Comments
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: December 10, 2006 10:42 PM
well, it's not as bad as my hometown (Boston). They re-elected Mayor Curley WHILE he was in jail. OTOH, the charges were income tax evasion, IIRC, so perhaps that doesn't qualify as a real crime.
How successful were the Progressive Democrats in getting their candidates elected? The machines of Curley, et al. were important because they elected their candidates and kept the voters happy--the ward heelers, etc. were the real key, not the candidates.