Posted on 10/12/2019 9:33:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For the residents of Canton, Mississippi, faith in their elected officials must be at an all-time low.
The city has been facing seemingly endless election scandals in the past couple of years. Five local officialsincluding an alderman, the fire chief, and the city clerkhave been convicted of a variety of crimes stemming from their efforts to rig a 2017 municipal election, and can never seek public office again.
Its disturbing that so many elected officials, entrusted to represent the people and improve the community, were instead able to corrupt the electoral system in the name of power and personal gain.
And, as Cantons residents are discovering, the worst of the bunch might just be Courtney Rainey.
Courtney RaineyCantons director of human and cultural needs, school board member, and (ironically) judicial candidatewas convicted and sentenced Sept. 23 to 15 years in prison on charges of witness intimidation after she tried to stymie the criminal investigation into her earlier efforts at voter fraud.
While many were given the opportunity to enter pretrial diversion programs or step down from their offices, Rainey was not given the same leniency in her sentenceand for good reason.
Raineys scheme involved bribing voters with gift cards and cash to win an election. When one of the people Rainey had bribed told authorities about the plot, Rainey attempted to intimidate the voter into changing her initial statement to officials.
Rainey was insistent, too. She showed up at the voters job and home, not once, but twice.
Some may argue that a 15-year sentence is overkill for the crime she committed. Its true that Rainey was not the only Canton public official to try to sway the results of an election, and her sentence is certainly an outlier among the other cases.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Guess which one is the man!
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She left part of her anatomy caught in the justice wringer.
I live in a very diverse area and have met some lovely black ladies. I do believe, however, that a universal dislike of white and Asian women stems from issues with hating their natural hair. You simply can’t run your fingers through it or enjoy it on your skin like silky Caucasian/Asian hair.
She has to be a Dem? If she were an R that information would have been not only in the article but in the headline.
How is this different when compared to democrats giving a pack of smokes and a bus right to the poll?
It’s not, that’s how.
It’s the Daily Signal (Heritage Foundation news site), so I think that either they just left the affiliations out on general principle, or the town’s elections are non-partisan.
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