Two felons are removed from Clinton committee

[tekisui]

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has revised its list of Tennessee supporters on its statewide steering committee to remove the names of two convicted felons.

The original list of more than 100 committee members had included former state House Majority Leader Tommy Burnett and West Tennessee Democratic Party activist Gladys Crain.


Both are familiar names, with familiar rap sheets, in Tennessee political circles. Both have been politically active for decades, both before and after their convictions.

"These individuals were mistakenly included on the list we released and are not members of our steering committee," Clinton spokesman Isaac Baker said Monday, in response to a phone call from a reporter asking why two felons were on the list. "We are proud of our support from every corner of Tennessee and will continue working hard for every vote."

Burnett, a legislator-turned-lobbyist from Fentress County, has been jailed twice.

First imprisoned in 1984 for failure to file an income tax return, Burnett easily won re-election to an eighth term from his jail cell. A few years later, he was caught up in Operation Rocky Top, a federal corruption probe, and went back to jail for another year on federal conspiracy and illegal gambling charges. He now has a successful career as a lobbyist.

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Sorry if this has already been posted. I haven't seen it, yet.

[davidinalameda]

1. someone needs to start doing background checks on these people

this is just an embarrassment

[Cerridwen]

2. Yeah, because octogenarians and someone who didn't file a tax return from

23 years ago are a threat to our national security.

Oy.

[tekisui]

3. No threat to National Security, just unprofessional.

[davidinalameda]

10. that octogenarian stole from the people of Tennessee

she's a felon

[Lord Helmet]

11. Which Leads To Another Question:

Why were they not doing them in the first place? Do they just not care?

Oh well, it makes a nice story.

[Hippo_Tron]

4. Serioulsy, there is no problem with giving people a second chance

It's a shame she let them go.

[SoxFan]

5. Now they can ditch Chris Spirou

One of Hilalry's top NH supporters is Christos Spirou, a former state rep and gubernatorial nominee (got crushed by Papa Doc Sununu).

During the runup to the Dayton Accords, Spirou whored himself out as a "consultant" to the Serbian government headed by Slobodan Milosevic.

He was on the payroll of a genocidal maniac and saw nothing wrong with it.

Nice crew you have there, Hillary.

[Tesha]

7. It's a clue, but an awful lot of folks have the CluePhone "off the hook". (NT)

[Iggo]

6. I'm a convicted felon.

Should I vote for someone other than Clinton, then?

[tekisui]

8. I think you should vote for someone other than Hillary.

But, not because you are a convicted felon, but because she does not represent the change we need in this country.

[Iggo]

9. Ah, but in my smartassiness...

...I missed the point I was trying to make, which is this:

If convicted felons need not apply, it follows that votes from convicted felons are not welcome. Wouldn't want my prior feloniousness to get all over their squeaky clean-ness.