Posted on 05/07/2009 7:16:44 AM PDT by Hawthorn
The mayor of Mississippi's largest city died early Thursday, less than two days after losing a re-election bid in a contentious Democratic primary that came a week before his second federal trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at wlbt.com ...
Is one hell of a way to get out of federal prosecution.
Figured he would have the last word.
And that's the bottom line...
never heard of him was it suicide?
“never heard of him was it suicide?”
Jacksoncide....
RIP
I remember good ol’ Frankie pulling up to our JPS school with his entourage, and his propensity to stop school buses so he could hug students.
...Melton, 60, died peacefully at 12:10 a.m. at a Jackson hospital with his wife by his side...
Melton, who had a history of serious heart problems, was taken to the hospital from his home by ambulance on Tuesday night, shortly after he lost the primary.
Tragedy? Since when is dying from a heart attack a tragedy?
Not a suicide, not a mayoracide, not even a Frankacide, just plain old heart disease — which ended the infamous and colorful career of a man who some have called “the worst mayor in America”:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/123117.html
May he rest in peace.
DJ, wasn’t Mayor Melton initially viewed as a DINO with great promise, similar to intial views about Ray Nagin?
I’m not sure what you call it, but I don’t want it. ;)
No, scotch and smokes...
Mississippi Ping!
Really...
I think the odds are pretty high that you are going to die sometime whether you want to or not.
I think Frank was viewed with great promise, yes...
Of course I think a large part of that went to his head in later years...
>> wasn’t Mayor Melton initially viewed as a DINO with great promise, similar to intial views about Ray Nagin? <<
He was elected — with the support of probably 99.99% of the city’s white voters — because of his “tough on crime stance,” which had been made famous by his frequent anti-drug, anti-crime editorials on the leading local TV station.
But he was a disaster in office. Crime rates went up, city services went down, numerous other municipal problems popped up like mushrooms after a rain — all while old Frank was engaged in various forms of lawbreaking and was indulging in a “Michael Jackson tendency” by keeping scores of teenaged boy criminals at his palatial home.
In the end, at least it can be said of Frank that he outfoxed the Federal prosecutors by dying before they could send him to prison.
R. I. P.
Don't you know he's a Black person?
At least two tragedies were involved here, beyond the "simple tragedy" of any death:
1. The deterioration and downfall of an obviously talented man who once seemed to hold great promise.
2. The accelerated decline of the city he was supposed to manage.
He was the Hope and Change candidate. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
2. The accelerated decline of the city he was supposed to manage.
I have the same sympathy towards Melton and the residents of Jackson as I do for Kwame Kilpatrick and the voters of Detroit. You reap what you sow. When you elect corrupt, incompetent politicians, you shouldn't be surprised at the results.
We have a judge that likes to paddle young male criminals in a room near his court.
A grand jury last month issued a 57-count indictment against the former judge, charging him with extortion, kidnapping, sodomy and sex abuse.
Among the allegations, Thomas is accused of spanking young criminal defendants
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