Opinion by Jeff Greenfield: Getting indicted isn’t enough to stop a reelection
in New York for allegations of dodgy accounting to evade campaign-finance laws. But what about voting not for anwrongdoer but a convicted one? Voters rarely get that chance, because once they are convicted, officeholders leave the scene, voluntarily or otherwise. A year after their reelections, Collins and Hunter pleaded guilty to crimes and stepped down., the model for Edwin O’Connor’s Francis Skeffington in “The Last Hurrah.
More than 40 years later, Curley ran and won a fourth mayoral term while under two federal indictments, for bribery and mail fraud. His winning slogan: “Curley Gets Things Done.” He was convicted while mayor and conducted the city’s business for five months while a prisoner in Danbury’s federal prison.Okay, maybe there’s not much to learn from a 120-year-old local election; maybe voters would apply a tougher standard when an indictment or multiple indictments hit a former president.
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