CAUTION! READING AND UNDERSTANDING THESE FACTS MAY CAUSE YOU TO VOTE.
In May, 1998, the New York Times reported that Aspen, Colorado
offers public housing assistance to families whose income is as high as $115,000 annually.
Madison, Wisconsin suspended for one day its police chief Richard Williams who accidently shot his dinner with a service revolver. The Chief forgot to remove his hidden gun from the oven before warming it up to roast a turkey.
According to a 1995 New York Post article, New York City Transit Authority bus driver Leroy Goodwin is still employed and driving despite 103 at-fault accidents since 1973. Mr Goodwin received a safe-driving award in 1986.
The Linn County, Oregon jail has stopped providing underwear for male prisoners, stating it costs too much to replace destroyed underwear. A representative also said underwear occasionally is flushed down the toilet causing clogs, and one inmate tried to commit suicide with the elastic waistband from his briefs.
Sheriff Dave Burright noted "I don't remember Thomas Jefferson putting anything about underwear in the Constitution."
Albuquerque, N.M., judge Joann Birge dismissed misdemeanor DUI charges against Joseph Chiado in 1996, even though he tested more than double the legal blood alcohol content, because two officers participated in the arrest. Police guidelines call for only one officer to make misdemeanor arrests.
In December, 1996, a federal jury awarded 1 million dollars for age discrimination against the New York City Department for the Aging, who illegally fired a 51 year old employee in favor of a younger person.
In February, 1997, the Palm Springs, California Airport Commission issued hygiene rules for cab drivers serving the airport, including requiring drivers to shower daily with soap, brush with toothpaste, and eat breath mints.
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor
The City of Beebe, Arkansas fined a man $650 and sentenced him to a day in jail for driving while intoxicated; in addition his license was suspended for ninety days, none of which bothered him because he died days before the trial took place.
Portage, PA's town council voted at the same meeting to lay off one of its two police officers and to buy a second police cruiser.
The Texas legislature disallowed the practice of letting members vote for absent members, after one legislator was recorded as having voted several times after his death.
The Massachusetts Elections Commission threatened a candidate with a $2,000 fine after he failed to disclose who had paid for the stamp on a letter he wrote to a local newspaper during his campaign.
An enthusiastic Brooklyn traffic officer ticketed a double-parked ambulance while the Rescue Personnel tried to remove a heart attack victim from his apartment. A Traffic Department spokesman defended the ticket, saying the officer was just doing her duty by enforcing the law.
"Outside of the killings, Washington [D.C.] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
No one wants to say the sky is falling, but in this instance I am afraid the emperor has no clothes.
Despite Herculean efforts by the Council and Council staff, we are still only dealing with the tip of
the iceberg.
Charles Millard, NYC councilman, in a press release
I wanted all my ducks in a row so if we did get into a posture we could pretty much slam-dunk this
thing and put it to bed.
Lee Cooke, mayor of Austin, TX
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder"
Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do
not open up like in normal people.
Chief Daryl Gates, LAPD
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe"
Former Philadelphia Mayor and Police Chief Frank Rizzo
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