As I blurbed earlier today, a recent topic at Marathon Pundit, controversial Jackson, Mississippi mayor Frank Melton, died early this morning.
Ten minutes after polls closed Tuesday night, Melton suffered an apparent heart attack--very much like Frank Skeffington's demise in The Last Hurrah. The first-term mayor finished third in the Democratic mayoral primary.
Next week Melton was to be retried for allegedly violating the civil rights of a Jackson resident whose home was stormed--without a warrant--by a sledgehammer wielding mob.
Melton also claimed that the problem of saggy pants was more important than the constitution, and he once pulled over a bus filled with high school students because he needed hugs.
He may have been America's worst mayor, but he was surely one of a kind.
Rest in peace.
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2 comments:
I just saw a story on this from the Defender. Blew me away! I wonder who may succeed him even if that person may only have a short time in office.
An acting mayor was put in place yesterday. He'll serve until his successor his elected.
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