[EL] Anonymous candidates

[Bev Harris]

> In 2002, a candidate for Pulaski County Kentucky Sheriff was murdered by his
> opponent at a campaign rally.

Yes, you could compile more. See the following story by Los Angeles Times from
July 2012... But it's still no reason to make candidates anonymous, of course.
Nor donors.

"Luis Garcia and Daniel Cota told the Times that after they announced their
intention to run for Cudahy council  in 2007, their cars were vandalized with
buckets of paint. Garcia and Cota said they suspected city employees followed
them as they campaigned house-to-house. It was the first contested council race
in nearly a decade, and they lost by a few dozen votes.

When they ran again two years later, Garcia said rocks and bricks were tossed at
the windows of his home. Later, a surveillance camera on Garcia's property
captured a man hurling a Molotov cocktail at the house.

"If it had gone through the window into my house, it would have burned with my
kids and wife inside," Garcia told the Times.

The elections in 2007 and 2009 are now being investigated by the FBI, which has
subpoenaed documents from the Cudahy city clerk. The FBI declined to reveal
specifics about the probe in the working-class, predominantly Latino town of
25,000.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/FBI-probing-2007-2009-council-election-in-Cudahy-3684213.php

....

After investigations, arrests:

"Garcia said he felt vindicated by the investigations. For years, he felt like
he was alone on an island that others had abandoned.

"It confirmed all my suspicions about what was going on behind that inner
circle," Garcia said. "And at that point, I felt liberated, like I was finally
getting off that island. Like a big rescue boat came by and picked me up."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-election-fraud-20120704,0,984351,full.story


Bev Harris
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