New Mayor Locked out of City Hall by previous Admin
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So usually I don't focus on small town drama but this was too good to pass up.
The new mayor of Kinloch, a suburb of St. Louis, who won the election with 2/3 of the vote on April 7, has been locked out of City Hall by the administration she is replacing. Betty McCray was confronted by 20 police officers as she tried to enter the building and was told that she had been impeached and that she had been served impeachment papers for voter fraud. Which doesn't make any sense because she hasn't taken office yet AND even if she had taken office, being impeached does NOT remove an official from office on it's own. She was also told that she had been served impeachment papers which were "in the mail," but she hadn't received them yet.
About a day later, when the lawyers realized that impeachment didn't make any sense, they claimed they misspoke an said that McCray was 'suspended' and not impeached.
Out of curiosity I looked into a little bit more and found that this town has a long history of corruption which has drive the population down from 3000 in 1980 to just 298 of today. Wire Fraud, witness tampering, bribery, tax evasion, receiving stolen property and every other money related crime have all been levied against elected officials. Apparently, someone even sold City Hall itself to a local salvage yard.
Another interesting thing that caught my eye was that 20 police officers were at city hall to stop the mayor-elect. So in a town of 298, at least 20 of them are law-enforcement. This means that this town has AT LEAST 1 cop for every 14.9 citizens. That is a stronger ratio than just about every public school's teacher to student ratio, which I think comes out to somewhere around 1:29. Where does all the money come from the pay all these people.
Anyway, minor story but just really intriguing.
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Dutch:
There are few people in America who are more corrupt than Rick Scott, and the link below provides a lot more information on his skullduggery:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/gov-rick-scott-solantic-and-conflict-of-interest-whats-the-deal/1161158
When he was the head of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain, the company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud. Scott was forced out, but left with a $10 million severance package, and $300 million worth of stock and options. Scott was never charged with any wrongdoing.
He used the money from Columbia to start Solantic. A fewe days before he took office, he transferred the company to his wife's trust, and claims that he is no longer involved. By an amazing coincidence, the company does drug testing, so all those 58,000 welfare folks who were forced to undergo drug tests AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE brought profit to his "wife's company".
Although Rick Scott never should have been re-elected, he got a lot of help from the Koch brothers. The Koch organization , Americans for Prosperity, had 40 paid staffers in Florida helping with Scott's re-election campaign.
http://realkochfacts.com/rick-scott-the-special-interests-governor/
Sam Brownback and Scott Walker never should have been re-elected either, but they also got a lot of help from "the boys":
Scott Walker, in fact, has been described as a "wholly owned Koch subsidiary "
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/28/secret_audio_nails_scott_walker_a_humiliating_suck_up_to_the_koch_brothers/
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=JN.c7xTFmWsScC3GlOE3Xztig&w=225&h=169&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.1
Brownback's ties to the Koch brothers go back a LONG ways - to 1996 in fact. That was the year that support from the Kochs helped him to capture Bob Dole's Senate seat, and he served in that position for 15 years. The last time that a Democrat was elected to represent Kansas in the Senate was 1930.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/19/100805/democrats-highlight-sam-brownbacks.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Kansas
Bob Dole, incidentally, supported Brownback in his 2014 re-election campaign, even though 100 Republican officials supported his Democratic opponent.
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Brownback--259270271.html
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that guy in Arizona Wrote: Dutch:
There are few people in America who are more corrupt than Rick Scott, and the link below provides a lot more information on his skullduggery:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/gov-rick-scott-solantic-and-conflict-of-interest-whats-the-deal/1161158
When he was the head of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain, the company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud. Scott was forced out, but left with a $10 million severance package, and $300 million worth of stock and options. Scott was never charged with any wrongdoing.
He used the money from Columbia to start Solantic. A fewe days before he took office, he transferred the company to his wife's trust, and claims that he is no longer involved. By an amazing coincidence, the company does drug testing, so all those 58,000 welfare folks who were forced to undergo drug tests AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE brought profit to his "wife's company".
Although Rick Scott never should have been re-elected, he got a lot of help from the Koch brothers. The Koch organization , Americans for Prosperity, had 40 paid staffers in Florida helping with Scott's re-election campaign.
http://realkochfacts.com/rick-scott-the-special-interests-governor/
Sam Brownback and Scott Walker never should have been re-elected either, but they also got a lot of help from "the boys":
Scott Walker, in fact, has been described as a "wholly owned Koch subsidiary "
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/28/secret_audio_nails_scott_walker_a_humiliating_suck_up_to_the_koch_brothers/
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=JN.c7xTFmWsScC3GlOE3Xztig&w=225&h=169&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.1
Brownback's ties to the Koch brothers go back a LONG ways - to 1996 in fact. That was the year that support from the Kochs helped him to capture Bob Dole's Senate seat, and he served in that position for 15 years. The last time that a Democrat was elected to represent Kansas in the Senate was 1930.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/19/100805/democrats-highlight-sam-brownbacks.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Kansas
Bob Dole, incidentally, supported Brownback in his 2014 re-election campaign, even though 100 Republican officials supported his Democratic opponent.
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Brownback--259270271.html Guy thanks; great that you published this; the only thing I absolutely do not understand is: Are Americans that naïve and prefer that crooks run this country?
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