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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That's raaaacist!
Another Day older and Deeper in debt.
You beat me to it.
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go...
But not the BBC sauce I hope
Sounds like my congressman , Bennie Thompson. He comes back home every election cycle has a big fish fry for ‘His constituents ‘ and gets re-elected every time. Of course the gerrymandered district helps also.
Evidently time in prison. ;)
Can’t go anywhere, he’s in prison.
“If someone tried that here it would be racist.”
Especially if it’s Popeye’s.
Fried chicken in Romania? A typical Romanian will ask,
“What’s a chicken?”
Learning bad habits from US DNC politicians.
What about our Democrat party (and some RINO Republicans), bribing hundreds of thousands with free stuff? Can we jail them, too?
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