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Jailed E.C. (East Chicago) councilman sworn into office (while in jail)
NWI.com ^
| January 22, 2016
Posted on 01/26/2016 2:36:32 PM PST by Zakeet
Locks and bars didn't stop East Chicago Councilman Robert Battle's inauguration.
The newly sworn-in Battle can retain his public title and annual salary of $42,356 a year despite being held in Porter County Jail on federal drug and homicide charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at nwitimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; crime; eastchicago; illinois; portercounty; robertbattle
It's the Chicago way ...
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posted on
01/26/2016 2:36:32 PM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/26/2016 2:37:52 PM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: All
The article didn’t mention the dude’s political affiliation ... so, you’re all going to have to guess!
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posted on
01/26/2016 2:39:23 PM PST
by
Zakeet
(Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/26/2016 2:41:27 PM PST
by
PeteB570
( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/26/2016 2:43:02 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: Zakeet
Unfortunately, East Chicago is located in Indiana. Just across the state line from Chicago, IL.
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posted on
01/26/2016 2:45:49 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Zakeet
It’s good to be a gangsta.
To: GreyFriar
Yep. More than one thread poster made that mistake yesterday.
To: Zakeet
To: Zakeet
I can hear the over-loud, old school rap music from here.
The music serves as backup to the Councilman’s Lament’ “B*tch Set Me Up, So WTF?”
To: Zakeet
“Chicago, Chicago, you’re my kind of town...” sayeth Obama and Rahm.
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posted on
01/26/2016 3:38:17 PM PST
by
Tudorfly
(All things are possible within the will of God.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ...
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"Death to America!"
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posted on
01/26/2016 3:46:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Zakeet
Marion Barry, former criminal mayor of Washington, DC, would be so proud.
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posted on
01/26/2016 4:41:32 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Keep calm and Pray on.)
To: WorkingClassFilth
Moderate Republican?It's a safe bet he's not Amish.
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posted on
01/26/2016 5:02:38 PM PST
by
immadashell
(Save Lives - ban gun free zones)
To: Zakeet
One of the guys in Barry’s neighborhood?
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posted on
01/26/2016 5:15:13 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Zakeet
New movement: “BlackCriminalsMatter”. Contact your local Democrat Party to find out how to express support for the dude.
To: SunkenCiv; Impy
We better not show this to Trump. No telling what he might do ...
‘... in Porter County Jail on federal drug and homicide charges...’
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posted on
01/27/2016 3:41:27 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Cruz and Trump FRiends strongest when we don't insult each other.)
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