Posted on 03/17/2016 8:26:16 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A Romanian Member of Parliament has been sentenced to two years in prison for handing out vast quantities of fast food to voters in a bid to win an election.
Florin Aurelian Popescu, a Liberal Democrat (PDL) politician resigned his parliamentary seat this month ahead of sentencing as he came to answer for a crime committed in 2012. Mr. Popescu was not an MP then, but was seeking re-election on a local council, reports the Telegraph.
Despite it not being a seat in the national parliament Mr. Popescu saw fit to give away 60,992 kg of “grilled chicken”, ordering it in bulk from a local business and sending campaign volunteers to collect and distribute the meat. The prosecutor told the court every package of chicken was “distributed for election purposes”.
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It was just a little walking-around chicken.
I wonder if they were free range...
If someone tried that here it would be racist.
A chicken in every pot.
Along with 40 acres and a mule.
Puhleezze. No BLM Jokes.
Nah. He forgot the watermelon.
Featherbedding?
Judge, you’re a henway.
What’s a henway?
I don’t know, but enough of them will weigh sixty tonnes!
LBJ was famous for feting donors and political cronies with barbecue feasts...
-JT
Dammit, if we have to have corruption in our political system, why can’t we at least get some chicken out of it?
Ya cook 60 tons...what do ya get?
I would gladly vote for you Tuesday for a fride chicken leg today.
Racist?
Fried chicken in Romania? A typical Romanian will ask,
“What’s a chicken?”
..another day older and deeper in debt..
First they bribe the LIVs, then they get bribed by the HDV.
LIV = Low Information Voter
HDV - High Dollar Voter
Just like here in the States.
[George] Washington learned his lesson. When he ran again in 1758, he rolled out the booze: 28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum punch, 34 gallons of wine, 46 gallons of beer, and two gallons of cider royal — nearly enough for a half-gallon per voter.
Was the chicken fried or grilled?
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