Former Washington, D.C. Mayor and current Councilman Marion Barry has once again run into trouble with the law. On Friday, he plead guilty Friday to two misdemeanor counts stemming from his failure to file tax returns in 2000.Barry served four terms as mayor. In his third term, he was videotaped in 1990 in a hotel room smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting. You might remember Barry's eloquent description of the woman seen in the videotape with him in the room, "The goddamn bitch set me up!" The following year, he served a six-month prison sentence.
Amazingly, in 1994, he regained the mayor's office for another four-year term. Voters then sent him to a Council seat last year.
What's the problem with Washington, D.C. voters that they keep re-electing this loser? Are they blind or do they just not care?
1 comment:
Not blind. Just blindly loyal.
"He may be a lying, bribe-taking, crack-smoking whoremonger, but goddammit, he's MY lying, bribe-taking, crack-smokihg whoremonger!"
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