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Brian Banks, eight-time ex-con, elected by Detroiters to Mich. state assembly, report says
CBS News ^ | November 7, 2012 | Barry Leibowitz

Posted on 11/08/2012 6:58:55 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

(CBS) DETROIT - The newly elected state assembly in Michigan includes at least one ex-con: Brian Banks, who's been convicted eight times for felonies involving bad checks and credit card fraud, won a seat representing the east side of Detroit, Harper Woods, and the tony Grosse Pointes, CBS Detroit reports.. Banks, 35, was convicted eight times between 1998 and 2004 of writing bad checks and credit card fraud. His slogan was "You can Bank on Banks."

Ironic, no?

The 35-year-old Democrat and lifelong Detroiter, got 68 percent of the vote to Republican Dan Schulte's 32 percent, according to CBS Detroit.

"It's time to elect a leader, with experience and passion, who will fight for you," Banks wrote on his website.

Michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2010 that bans anyone convicted of a felony in the last 20 years from running for office - but the caveat is the conviction has to be "related to the person's official capacity while holding any elective office." This was Banks' first run for elected office.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: brianbanks; convict; detroit
Apologies if this was posted previously, but I can't get the Search function to work.
1 posted on 11/08/2012 6:59:02 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Michigan knows how to pick ‘em/s


2 posted on 11/08/2012 7:03:13 AM PST by Michigander222
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Brian Banks, who's been convicted eight times for felonies involving bad checks and credit card fraud,

Highly qualified to serve on the finance committee in the legislature.

3 posted on 11/08/2012 7:04:37 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Never Underestimate the Power of Evil or Evil Doers)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He’s doing it wrong. Usually Detroit politicians end their careers in prison.

BTW Good news. John Conyers squeaked out a win with around 86% of the vote. LOL


4 posted on 11/08/2012 7:05:08 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If he is an ex con, I have no problem whatsoever with his being elected. It’s the democrat part I have a problem with.

I tend to think least half of all politicians are felons just waiting to be caught. He should fit right in.


5 posted on 11/08/2012 7:05:08 AM PST by Sporke (USS Iowa BB-61)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Apologies if this was posted previously, but I can’t get the Search function to work.


It rarely works even when it “works.”


6 posted on 11/08/2012 7:06:06 AM PST by chessplayer
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"It's time to elect a leader, with prison experience and passion, who will fight for you," Banks wrote on his website.
7 posted on 11/08/2012 7:09:31 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Brian Banks, eight-time ex-con, elected by Detroiters to Mich. state assembly, report says.”

somehow, I am not surprised. He’s just one of many that are in local/state/federal politics.

George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is getting more and more relevant every day...


8 posted on 11/08/2012 7:12:34 AM PST by sassy steel magnolia
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“It’s time to elect a leader, with prison experience and passion, who will fight for you,” Banks wrote on his website. “

Seriously?!! .....wow we are done as a country.


9 posted on 11/08/2012 7:12:36 AM PST by Michigander222
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

“It’s time to elect a leader, with prison experience and passion, who will fight for you,” Banks wrote on his website. “

Seriously?!! .....wow we are done as a country.


10 posted on 11/08/2012 7:12:47 AM PST by Michigander222
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Not surprising at all when you realise that 98% of blacks voted for Obama, while they were there they helped out this criminal.

Blacks do not harbor any ill will for felons, they are the symbol of success in a black neighborhood. Fact is they look up to criminals.


11 posted on 11/08/2012 7:13:01 AM PST by Venturer
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It’s time to elect a leader, with prison experience and passion, who will fight for you,” Banks wrote on his website. “

Seriously?!! .....wow we are done as a country.

ok he didn’t......but I could believe this could be said today and accepted..


12 posted on 11/08/2012 7:15:35 AM PST by Michigander222
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Democrats have no scruples or morals when it comes to voting for someone. The sleazier the politician the better. ALways been that way. The killer Ted Kennedy served about 50 years in the senate and the serial rapist Bill Clinton was elected twice. Also let’s not forget that Joe Biden plagerized college papers, it came out during the election four years and democrats didn’t give a damn. Elizabeth Warren, cerfifier liar who claimed to be an American Indian to qualify for miniority status to get free college tuition, and she’s elected to senate. A democrat who claimed to be a Vietnam War vet never sat foot in Vietnam and was still elected by democrats to the US senate. Democrats don’t care. The faggot Barney Frank’s boyfriend was running a male prostitution ring out of Franks capital hill office and the democrats didn’t care. There is no doubt in my mind that if Obama admitted to having oral sex with Larry Sinclair he would have still been elected. There is no doubt in my mind that if Obama had said he had charged with murder a few years ago but he beat the rap he would have been elected. There is no doubt in my mind that if documented, certified, factual evidence (certified by a judge, and admitted by Obama), that said he had indeed was born in Kenya and lied to get elected in 2008, he would have still won relection.

DEMOCRATS COULD CARE LESS HOW SLEAZY AND DIRTY THEIR
POLTICIANS ARE. IT’S ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY AND WILL NEVER CHANGE. They do this because they play to lowest common demoninator to vote for them and it works every time.


13 posted on 11/08/2012 7:30:01 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Birds of a feather flock together...”


14 posted on 11/08/2012 7:30:59 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Michigander222

You’ll have to go to the site to understand why Banks was elected. Upper left.


15 posted on 11/08/2012 7:43:39 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

First step on the way to the presidency.


16 posted on 11/08/2012 7:50:20 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: cripplecreek

thats called “voting for them if they are not white”


17 posted on 11/08/2012 8:11:54 AM PST by dalebert
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Felons = Democrat party


18 posted on 11/08/2012 9:31:27 AM PST by Vaduz
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