Tennessee mayor targets soldiers in traffic ticket blitz

This guy seems like a prime recess appointment for georgie


JUNE 28--A Tennessee mayor spewed racial slurs, attempted to set up foes for arrest, and tried to boost his town's traffic ticket revenue by specifically profiling soldiers and Hispanics, according to a lawsuit seeking the politician's ouster from office. In a complaint filed yesterday in Robertson County Chancery Court, the State of Tennessee portrays Coopertown Mayor Danny Crosby as a boorish nutcase who has soiled the reputation of the 3176-resident city, which is located about 25 miles north of Nashville. The state lawsuit, an excerpt of which you'll find below, includes an array of shocking charges, including the claim that, after swearing in a new police officer on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the mayor congratulated the cop by saying, "Happy James Earl Ray Day." Crosby, pictured above, also allegedly sought to boost his city's revenue by setting up speed traps and directing police to "engage in profiling soldiers of the United States Armed Services" since he believed that enlisted persons "would tend to mail in their fines rather to come to Court to contest the Citations." Crosby also thought Hispanics, who were "mostly illegal anyway," would also avoid court, the complaint charges. As such, Crosby encouraged giving multiple citations to Hispanics, remarking, "We can give them all the tickets we want." Crosby was elected mayor in November 2004.

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...what was he like before the election?

...and he has served a year in prison in Georgia for burglary. He won the election by 14 votes.

Excuse me for not being politically correct.

:sarcasm:

I'm sorry, but if you're going to vote for a city mayor, the least you can do is make sure he is competent enough to do so, and not finishing high school is one thing, but not finishing high school and being a convicted felon in a neighboring state is a red flag. I'm sorry, but the fact that the election was even close at all with the crook winning shows how lost civic society is in America. If our public education system is turning out voters and future leaders like this, then this country is doomed to collapse within a 100 years.

His town is very close to one of the US largest Army bases so he is really likely to either (a) make lots of money on soldier traffic citations or (b) severely irritate a whole bunch of soldiers. (b) is the most likely option and I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.