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Jailed E.C. (East Chicago) councilman sworn into office (while in jail)
NWI.com ^ | January 22, 2016

Posted on 01/26/2016 2:36:32 PM PST by Zakeet

Locks and bars didn't stop East Chicago Councilman Robert Battle's inauguration.

The newly sworn-in Battle can retain his public title and annual salary of $42,356 a year despite being held in Porter County Jail on federal drug and homicide charges.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: chicago; corruption; crime; eastchicago; illinois; portercounty; robertbattle

It's the Chicago way ...

1 posted on 01/26/2016 2:36:32 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Lol.


2 posted on 01/26/2016 2:37:52 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: All

The article didn’t mention the dude’s political affiliation ... so, you’re all going to have to guess!


3 posted on 01/26/2016 2:39:23 PM PST by Zakeet (Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
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To: Zakeet

BLM


4 posted on 01/26/2016 2:41:27 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Zakeet

Only in “The Region”.


5 posted on 01/26/2016 2:43:02 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Zakeet

Unfortunately, East Chicago is located in Indiana. Just across the state line from Chicago, IL.


6 posted on 01/26/2016 2:45:49 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Zakeet

It’s good to be a gangsta.


7 posted on 01/26/2016 2:46:46 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: GreyFriar

Yep. More than one thread poster made that mistake yesterday.


8 posted on 01/26/2016 2:54:36 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Zakeet

Moderate Republican?


9 posted on 01/26/2016 3:24:09 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!!)
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To: Zakeet

I can hear the over-loud, old school rap music from here.
The music serves as backup to the Councilman’s Lament’ “B*tch Set Me Up, So WTF?”


10 posted on 01/26/2016 3:29:59 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Zakeet

“Chicago, Chicago, you’re my kind of town...” sayeth Obama and Rahm.


11 posted on 01/26/2016 3:38:17 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ...
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"Death to America!"


12 posted on 01/26/2016 3:46:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Zakeet

Marion Barry, former criminal mayor of Washington, DC, would be so proud.


13 posted on 01/26/2016 4:41:32 PM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Moderate Republican?

It's a safe bet he's not Amish.

14 posted on 01/26/2016 5:02:38 PM PST by immadashell (Save Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Zakeet

One of the guys in Barry’s neighborhood?


15 posted on 01/26/2016 5:15:13 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Zakeet

New movement: “BlackCriminalsMatter”. Contact your local Democrat Party to find out how to express support for the dude.


16 posted on 01/26/2016 7:00:00 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SunkenCiv; Impy

We better not show this to Trump. No telling what he might do ...

‘... in Porter County Jail on federal drug and homicide charges...’


17 posted on 01/27/2016 3:41:27 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Cruz and Trump FRiends strongest when we don't insult each other.)
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