At Least the Tea-Bagger Running for Mayor in my Town Lost.

[G_j]

:applause:
That a whackadoo like this guy could even get close to being elected is scary.


http://m.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009910310332


Weapons court fight changed Asheville mayoral candidate Robert Edwards
Joel Burgess • October 31, 2009

ASHEVILLE — Mayoral candidate Robert Edwards' life changed the day he bought a grenade launcher.

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Edwards got the second-most votes in the Oct. 6 four-candidate mayoral primary with 17 percent of ballots cast. That earned him one of two places on Tuesday's general election ballot but makes him a long-shot against an incumbent who drew 76 percent of the vote.

Edwards was born in Asheville and went to Enka and Roberson high schools. His father died of colon cancer at 53, and he is largely alienated from his mother, Edwards said. He lives with his paternal grandmother in South Asheville and works two jobs — as a waiter and hotel night auditor.

He has been studying criminal justice at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, but has had to interrupt his education a few times, once during the mayoral race and in 2007 when he was facing federal weapons charges.

At a gun show at the Asheville Civic Center, Edwards, a self-professed “gun nut,” bought an assault rifle with various attachments, including what he said on his MySpace Web page was a grenade launcher.

Someone tipped off law enforcement officers, and they went to Edwards' house. There they seized all his guns and charged him with possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Federal prosecutors took over, and Edwards was facing 10 years in prison, he said.

About a year later he was acquitted after convincing prosecutors the attachment was actually a flare launcher. His message about the grenade launcher, he said, was the boast of someone fresh out of high school “who liked to brag.”

The court victory made him feel like he got his life back, he said. He became politically active in the grass-roots conservative 9.12 group inspired by television and radio commentator Glenn Beck and, at the urging group members, signed up to run for mayor.

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Also, progressives won seats on City Council, and the worst, most obnoxious right winger on the CC for the last 8 yrs. was voted out!
(Carl Mumpower)
:applause:

http://m.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009911040335


Esther Manheimer, Gordon Smith and Cecil Bothwell set to join Asheville City Council

Mayor Terry Bellamy wins re-election; Carl Mumpower out

by Joel Burgess
published November 4, 2009 12:15 am
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[sabrina 1]

1. 'They charged him with possession of a WMD'

Omg, this country is insane. Who needed Saddam? At least in this case the accusation was true. :rofl:

It IS scary that he even got as far as he did ~

The teabagger in upstate NY was also rejected despite having Palin and Beck and Rush et al all supporting him. Maybe we aren't as far gone as I thought after all.

[G_j]

2. I guess it was a flare launcher, but he bragged on Myspace it was a grenade launcher!

what an idiot!


yes, I'm so glad these folks lost!

[mvd]

3. Congrats!

I had good news and bad news here in Montgomery County PA:

Get the bad out of the way first:

- An awful judge, Joan Orie Melvin, won election to the state Supreme Court; we better watch that redistricting!
- Council in my borough remained all Repuke

The good:

- We finally have a Democratic judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County; Lois Murphy got the most votes of any in her race
- My borough's Democratic mayor ran unopposed despite the Repuke council.

[G_j]

4. congrats and condolences..

these local races are SO important!

[G_j]

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