Only in America...
Willie Singletary, a 26 year old punk who lost his driver's license after racking up more than $11,000 in unpaid traffic fines for 55 tickets for things like Reckless Driving, Driving Without a License and Driving Without Insurance, is now a front-runner for an $80,000 a year position as a traffic court judge--a position that will let him sit in judgment over other people with far less serious traffic matters.
Per this Associated Press story, Singletary had actually been ducking a bench warrant while he ran in the Democrat Party primary. After winning that primary, which pretty much assures him victory in the predominantly Democrat-voting city, he got his dad to pay his fines (only after he won the primary, mind you...) and now he's raising money for the general election. And there are actually idiots out there who have given him over $5,000 to help him!
There's no requirement that candidates for the job be a lawyer--Singletary claims his occupation as "pastor"--but common sense tells me that there needs to be a new requirement that says that candidates have to at least have a drivers' license. Singletary's is suspended until 2011.
Never underestimate the collective stupidity of voters, particularly in some areas of the country.
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