| Posted by: fuscia | | LUDLOW, Kentucky (AP) -- A man tried to buy a vote with a 12-pack of beer, according to police in northern Kentucky.
Edward Lucas offered the beer to an 18-year-old student at Ludlow High School in exchange for a no vote on a proposed increase in school property taxes, Ludlow police officer James Tucker said in an affidavit.
Lucas was charged Friday with making or receiving expenditures for vote, a class D felony that can land him in prison for one to five years.
Lucas, 40, denied the charge.
"I don't know the boy, and that's not exactly what was said," Lucas said.
"I said, 'I hope it doesn't go through and if it doesn't, I'm going to have a big beer party.'"
Lucas was arrested Friday and released on bond Saturday.
Police dispute his version of the exchange, but declined to give specifics.
The tax increase was on the ballot Tuesday and lost.
It would have generated about $75,000 a year for school construction projects. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: becker | | Let's try to keep all beer away from Kerry. That's the only way he will get any votes...Unless, that is; he drafts street people. Or gets lifers paroled, or registers the dead. Or employs a powerful hypnotist to aid his cause. Of course after seeing his economic adviser on TV today. I won't worry. He didn't answer one question without a hem and a big haw. Also he should register with a good undertaker. I almost thought he was already gone. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Or has a powerful father with lots of connections 
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| "I don't know the boy, and that's not exactly what was said," Lucas said. |
You don't know him, and that's not what was said? If you'd spoken to him, then I would believe that means you do know him... sheesh  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | |
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| a proposed increase in school property taxes, |
What the? You pay Tax on schools?
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Becker... those of us who DON'T like Bush, don't need to be bribed! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | |
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schmiggens said this in post #4 :
What the? You pay Tax on schools? |
Yes part of the property tax goes for the public schools.
If I voted for Bush, then I would need the beer.
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| Posted by: Lawless | | Hell, If I voted for Bush, I would have a labotamy.
If Bush wins, Sherry WILL need the beer, because she's going to have to pour something in the hole that will be placed in my skull. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Dekka00 | | I'd take the beer, drink it, then say "hahaha sucker!" and vote for who ever the hell I wanted | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: becker | |
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KJ said this in post #7 :
Hell, If I voted for Bush, I would have a labotamy.
If Bush wins, Sherry WILL need the beer, because she's going to have to pour something in the hole that will be placed in my skull. |
I will PM you the names and phones of some top brain surgeons, just in case. Some have carpenters with sharp ripsaws as assistants...so you get two for one.
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| Posted by: Lawless | | No, because I would NOT vote for Bush... therefore, I don't need the labatomy! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Nymphadora | | Beer, what about thoses of us who don't like beer, think they would hand out thoses little bottles of rum? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: adityamahesh | |
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fuscia said this in post #6 :
If I voted for Bush, then I would need the beer. |
I think it is the other way round. If you had too much beer then you would probably vote for Bush.
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