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Two Years In Prison For Politician Who Bribed Voters With 60 Tonnes Of Fried Chicken
Breitbart ^ | 3/17/2016 | Oliver JJ Lane

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; History; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2016; chicken; corruption; democrats; elections; friedchicken; grilledchicken; liberals; romania
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To: Beave Meister
Two Years In Prison For Politician Who Bribed Voters With 60 Tonnes Of Fried Chicken

That's raaaacist!

21 posted on 03/17/2016 9:30:31 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Huskrrrr

Another Day older and Deeper in debt.


22 posted on 03/17/2016 9:52:23 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Pelham

You beat me to it.


23 posted on 03/17/2016 9:54:57 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Mozilla

Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go...


24 posted on 03/17/2016 10:03:38 PM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But not the BBC sauce I hope


25 posted on 03/17/2016 10:53:07 PM PDT by George Washington Axe
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To: Beave Meister

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.


26 posted on 03/18/2016 12:40:46 AM PDT by democratsaremyenemy
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To: Huskrrrr

Evidently time in prison. ;)


27 posted on 03/18/2016 12:43:58 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Pelham

Can’t go anywhere, he’s in prison.


28 posted on 03/18/2016 12:45:21 AM PDT by kalee
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“If someone tried that here it would be racist.”

Especially if it’s Popeye’s.


29 posted on 03/18/2016 4:36:00 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: elcid1970

Fried chicken in Romania? A typical Romanian will ask,

“What’s a chicken?”


Nah.. They have plenty, but their chickens tend to be small and lean.. not the big, pumped-up variety we have here.


30 posted on 03/18/2016 4:38:34 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: Beave Meister

Learning bad habits from US DNC politicians.


31 posted on 03/18/2016 6:49:14 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Beave Meister

What about our Democrat party (and some RINO Republicans), bribing hundreds of thousands with free stuff? Can we jail them, too?


32 posted on 03/18/2016 8:58:17 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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