Idiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political Untruthiness

by Leland Gregory

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Inside this collection, Gregory offers more than 250 accounts of bumbling bureaucrats on both sides of political party lines:

-David Spellman became mayor of Black Hawk, Colorado on July 12, 2006, a week after pleading guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault for pistol-whipping his wife with a handgun and firing three shots in 2005.

-County officials in Vermillion, Indiana were told by state homeland security officials in July 2006 to stop using the special emergency-only highway message boards to advertise their charity fish fries and spaghetti dinners.

-District 1 Town Councillor David Watson resigned from his position as council vice chairman on January 23, 2007, after unintentionally forwarding an e-mail to 18 members of the New Elementary School Building Committee. The e-mail contained nine embedded images of topless women under the heading 'This Is National Women's Breast Awareness Day.' The only other text in the e-mail read, 'Beats . . . Martin Luther King Day, doesn't it?'
  • ISBN10 0740792083
  • ISBN13 9780740792083
  • Publish Date 15 June 2009 (first published 1 October 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 304
  • Language English