Posted on 11/23/2011 10:00:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
A typo has led to the election of the wrong man to a finance board in Derby, Conn.
James J. Butler was the highest vote-getter, winning 1,526 votes for the 10-member Board of Apportionment and Taxation, which monitors the town's finances.
However, his father, 72-year-old James R. Butler, was the candidate nominated by Democrats. The News Times of Danbury and New Haven Register report that he said he wants the job and that his son is not interested in public office.
(Excerpt) Read more at newstimes.com ...
Thanks nickcarraway.
Is the son a Republican? Hoohah-boy!
Democrats couldn’t get Dear Old Dad elected. Oops!
IMO between fraud, incompetence and convoluted laws, from small, local elections to national races, there is NO integrity left in the electoral system.
Matter of fact, I’m not so sure there ever was.
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