April 13, 2009


Electing corpses

Voters in the small northeastern Missouri town of Winfield re-elected their mayor for a fourth term on Tuesday, about a month after his death.

Ballots had already been printed and absentee voting had already begun when Harry Stonebraker died of a heart attack at age 69 on March 11. He won easily in Tuesday’s general election with 206 votes, or 90 percent. Alderman Bernie Panther got the other 23 votes.

Andrew, did you hear about this? (More where this came from.)

posted by Kelsey Parker in news, odd, politics 

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8 Responses to “Electing corpses”

  1. Deron Bauman on April 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Panther must be a dick.

  2. Andrew Simone on April 13th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    Frankly, I am shocked I haven’t heard. Thanks. Now I have a talking point at the cafe (they like to make fun of the “hicks” outside of the city).

  3. Cindy Scroggins on April 14th, 2009 at 9:01 am

    I want to be mayor of Dallas when I die.

  4. Michael Smith on April 14th, 2009 at 9:19 am

    I think that’s a job I’d take only after I was dead.

  5. Sheila Ryan on April 14th, 2009 at 11:23 am

    Cindy, maybe you could be the mayor pro tem of Dallas. First (okay, only legally recognized) time around, I was married by the mayor pro tem of Dallas. He warned me and my new husband to be sure and wipe the jelly off our babies’ faces because that’s what attracts the rats.

  6. Cindy Scroggins on April 14th, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Mayor pro tem is a more difficult position to secure postmortem (or so I’ve read). It’s all political, you know.

  7. Sheila Ryan on April 14th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Hunh. So Dallas ain’t like Chicago? The dead don’t vote?

  8. Cindy Scroggins on April 14th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    No, that’s only in South Texas.

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