Wednesday, December 11, 2002

ONE MORE THING YOU GOTTA

ONE MORE THING YOU GOTTA LOVE ABOUT POLITICS

I read about this incident some time ago and found it compelling and inspirational.  Someone who cares so deeply about the democratic process as to humiliate herself in public.  Someone who’s a whiz, out looking for number one, not just trying to take the pressure off.  And now I learn that Irene Smith, the St. Louis alderwoman isn’t gonna have a chance to make her stand for the rights of politicians to void where prohibited.  They’re saying they can’t prove the case because the videotape may have been altered?  That’s not a very difficult thing to prove, just show that in one frame she’s standing straddling a trashcan and in the next frame she’s sitting comfortably smoking a cigarette or cavorting on a golden strand or otherwise not where she useta be.  And wasn’t there some physical evidence?  Like a trash can full of political effluvium?  I guess no one wanted to be responsible for that chain of custody either…