Bridgeport, CT — At 43-years-old, Joseph P. Ganim had been the mayor of Connecticut’s largest city for 12 years before stepping down to be arrested and convicted on multiple corruption charges.

On March 19, 2003, a federal court convicted Ganim of 16 counts of criminal misconduct, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, tax evasion and mail fraud.

Federal Judge, Janet Bond Arterton sentenced the former mayor to nine years in prison for “systematically using his office to enrich himself.” Since his sentence was under ten years, Ganim, who undoubtedly would have been torn to shreds in a real prison, was able to serve out his ‘punishment’ in a federal camp, where conditions are far less restrictive than an actual prison.

After serving only seven of the nine years of his sentence, Ganim was signed out of the Watkinson Halfway House in Hartford for the final time on July 19, 2010.

For the next several years, this political criminal would strive to regain his law license and even have local attorneys recommend him to be readmitted to the bar. However, for the time being, his license was not reinstated and clearer heads prevailed.

Until now.

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, after being reelected in a landslide vote, Joe Ganim was sworn into the office of the mayor – for the second time. Only now, this pillar of society is a convicted felon.

In the Land of the Free, a 17-year-old kid can get caught with an arbitrary amount of an illegal plant and get sentenced to life in prison. If that kid is lucky enough only to spend a few years in prison, the chances of him getting a decent job are slim to none because of the felony conviction check.

However, if you are a well-connected wealthy politician, you can get caught stealing from the people you represent, get convicted, avoid real jail, avoid serving your entire sentence, and get re-elected by the very simpletons you once stole.

The kid arrested for marijuana, who had zero victims, is banned from voting for the rest of his life, while the man who looted from hundreds of thousands of people, gets voted into office!

This case epitomizes the problem with American politics – and the blind citizens who act as fuel for this corrupt and murderous machine.

As Southpark pointed out in their classic 2004 season, Americans only have the illusion of choice when it comes to electing your rulers. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the election is between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich.

Somehow I am not surprised with this. The Sheriff here a few years ago had a criminal record.

It's systemic.

After corruption convictions, I believe, the citizenry of D.C.,
put Marion "Dingle" Barry, back in the mayor's office.

We make senators and heads of state out of traitors, award winners and movie stars as well, college professors out of domestic terrorists, and presidents out of foreign exchange students with questionable backgrounds and loyalty issues.

What's one more corrupt politician gonna do to change anything?

It's almost a requirement these days if you wish to hold a political office!

uh....so who is the black guy in the picture,
with the big print "TRUE STORY" supposed to depict ???

he's the U.S. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho...

from the movie, Idiocracy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

Mountain Dew!

...it has electrolytes...

Depends which one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQBNBbiTUY8

Grandpa Jones - Mountain Dew

It's not your fathers root beer....

Daffinitely Not!

thanks for the link....do you happen to have one for the complete article ?
i couldn't find it...i'm interested in reading more stuff from that site...
if you could post it, thanks in advance....

http://www.sott.net/article/307710-Idiocracy-is-real-City-reelects-Mayor-after-he-spent-7-years-in-jail-for-robbing-them-blind

prepare to be surprised!

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laura_Knight_Jadczyk

Laura Knight Jadczyk (hereafter referred to as LKJ) is a batshit insane blogger and crank, who calls herself a "scientific mystic and PaleoChristian Shaman". She is primarily notable for her role in purveying Comet Elenin and Planet X/Nibiru woo, but she is also into free energy,[1] Mossad conspiracies,[2] the 9/11 truth movement,[3] the Denver Airport conspiracy theory,[4] the New World Order,[5], Earth changes,[6] , and alien abduction, and HAARP,[7]. It seems LKJ never met a piece of pseudoscience she didn't like, and she's a left-wing crank and moonbat par excellence. She's Gene Ray with slightly better writing skills.

TY Conrad......this will definately help round-out my net education...

shes definitely one of those Jew haters... every article about Israel is not good

brondo... it has what plants want

he's also the 7 time WWE word champion and porn superstar... 7 wives and 42 of the dumbest kids in the world...

here's the original article
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/idiocracy-real-city-reelects-mayor-served-7-years-jail-corrupt-mayor/#HBMVfB9hhA0bmi7q.99