Posted on 11/30/2005 9:22:19 AM PST by nypokerface
CHICAGO - A state lawmaker who didn't live in the district she represents was found guilty of using fake addresses on re-election paperwork and voter registration cards, and must resign.
Rep. Patricia Bailey was found guilty Tuesday of election fraud and perjury after a one-day trial.
"You never had a heat, electric, a telephone, a cable bill," Cook County Judge Diane Gordon-Cannon told the Chicago Democrat. "You never lived for 30 minutes inside your district."
Bailey, 52, first elected in 2002, faces up to five years in prison when sentenced Dec. 21. She wouldn't comment as she left the courtroom.
State law requires her to give up her 6th District House seat on Chicago's South Side, but prosecutors were working to determine whether she had to do so immediately or could wait until she was sentenced.
Bailey also will have to leave her job as a Cook County probation officer. She will be ineligible to hold a government job for five years after her sentence is completed.
Bailey testified that she had been a victim of identity theft and repeated miscommunication about her residence, saying she had intended to move to an address she provided to the state when she filed for re-election.
Robert Sawicki, an assistant executive director of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, outlined six voter registration documents with various addresses Bailey had filed some just a few days apart since she first registered to vote in 1995.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan called Bailey's actions "a serious breach of the public trust" and said those who "voted for or considered voting for Ms. Bailey believed that she lived in the 6th District. The fact that she did not is unethical and illegal."
Good Lord - she was a state rep and a PO? God, she hasn't got any shame, has she?
Next!
Just part of the Democrat Culture of Corruption®
Hey Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), please comment on this little piece of work.
Paging Nancy Pelosi. Please pick up the courtesy phone.
Is that a bad picture or does she have a 5 o'clock shadow?
At least she was alive... not always the case in Chicago voting.
Another African American who believes they can live by another set of rules it seems... Although it is doubtful, I hope she gets the maximum sentence!
Maybe she can convert to Islam in prison and change that horribly Caucasian-sounding name to something more befitting her.
Well, they have fake voters. They've established they can elect dead people to office. They have dead people on thier voter rolls. They can ignore election laws to replace the incumbent on the ballot when they are down too far in the polls. Why is it such a stretch to have a fake representative?
Isn't the headline a little redundant?
Democrat AND fraud.
Fake Representative?
There have been cases where I would rather have had NO representative that the one I ended up with.
Personally, I don't think a lawmaker should have to live in the district. It's too easy to gerrymander a person out of their district.
Typical Chicago. The beyotch was FOUND GUILTY. Are they going to argue that if she gets only probation, she can still serve, since she isn't in jail?
Stuff like this just buries the needle on the Demo-corruption meter.
She probably lied about her gender too.
"I'm a victim, I lied about where I live, or maybe I was lied to about my residence, and anyway, I meant to move. . . someday . . maybe...
"Is that a bad picture or does she have a 5 o'clock shadow?"
I think her name used to be Patrick Bailey prior to her surgery.
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