Thursday, July 27, 2006

"A Better Human Being?"

A former city councilman in Black Hawk, Colo., who pleaded guilty last week to pistol-whipping his wife was sworn in Wednesday as town mayor.

David Spellman entered the guilty plea to felony menacing and third-degree assault charges after police said he hit his wife in the head several times with a .380-caliber handgun and fired three shots, the Rocky Mountain News reported in its Wednesday editions.

Sounds like the sort of person we want heading our town government. But wait! There’s more from a town spokesman:

"We don't think it detracts from his ability to be mayor, and will probably, in the long run, make him a better human being," said Ford. "We're all fallible. We come from a very tight knit small community in Black Hawk. We're probably a little more willing than the average listener in Denver to forgive and give people a second chance."


I think that after 5 to 10 years in another governmental facility, it might have made him a better person.

Read it
all here.

[HT:
Roger Ailes ]

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