Well… What happened next?
(Excerpt from Wikipedia:)
Tennessee state law required that the name of a candidate who died before the election be removed from the ballot, and it did not allow the candidate’s party to replace a deceased candidate who died within 30 days of the election. Accordingly, after Burks’s death, Looper became the only candidate listed on the official ballot for Burks’s senate seat.
Several people tried to have Looper’s name stricken from the ballot, claiming that Looper’s arrest constituted moral turpitude. The state Republican Party distanced itself from Looper. To prevent Looper from winning the state senate seat on a technicality, Burks’s widow, Charlotte was put forth as a write-in candidate for her husband’s seat. Dozens of volunteers helped her campaign, including some Republicans. On election day, Charlotte Burks, as a write-in candidate, won the seat with 30,252 votes (95.18%) against Looper’s 1,531 votes (4.82%). One of her first initiatives as state senator was to introduce legislation to ensure that the name of any candidate who dies within 40 days of an election could remain on the ballot, thus preventing the situation that occurred after her husband’s death. Charlotte Burks won re-election in 2002, 2006, and 2010. She retired after the 2014 election.
Yea… I read this and just WTF’ed at this. Imagine if the dude never got caught.
Like why run a campaign if you could just a little crime.
Also, dude was so stupid, could’ve hired an assassin instead of doing it himself.
(Also, if he were a former president instead, he would’ve been immune from the criminal prosecution. Rookie mistake.)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper#Assassination_of_Tommy_Burks
Looper was found dead in his prison cell on June 26, 2013. A prison incident report shows that he assaulted a pregnant female counselor less than two hours before his body was found; Looper had to be restrained during that incident.
Wow! A piece of shit through and through.
This put me in a hole where I learned about the other lowtax and something awful and some more.
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He should have participated in an insurrection, he would have been pardoned.
Those republicans were different. They helped the Democratic Candidate’s widow with her csmpaign and she won with more than 95% of the vote. If it happened today, those republicans would’ve begin screaming “FALSE FLAG”, “CRISIS ACTOR”, and/or “DEEP STATE”, basically scream every buzzword, and also harass the widow accusing her of being the murderer, there would be a whole conspiracy movement to stop her from getting elected, and there is a good chance that Looper would’ve won, and then get a committee position.
A man living before his time. Not much before, mind you.
Listen dude, it’s actually not as easy as you’d think to hire a hit man. 99.99999 percent of hit men you can find out there are actually FBI. Unless you’re the leader of a drug cartel with a guy on hand that does that shit, in North America it is basically just “you want to hire a hitman, go directly to jail!”
That must mean it’s much better to hire a hitwoman.
Better to hire “a one hit wonder”
I’d love to know the breakdown of the 1531 votes for him. Some are probably straight Republican votes down the ballot, and a few ignorant of the news. But I’m sure some heard the news, and voted for him anyway with a shrug.
I mean, you’re gonna get a handful of such voters here and there, that’s just statistics
In Tennessee? Inconceivable.
Worth reading the whole Wikipedia entry, to see just how stupid this Looper guy was - discussing with various people both his advance intent to kill, and then also the fact that he had just done so. Wild stuff.
How very Republican.
His middle name was also (Low Tax), including the parentheses
Looper by name, looper by mentality
