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| -Election 2012 |
| Detroiters Elect Ex-Con Brian Banks As State Rep |
| 2012-11-08 |
| Among the new group of state politicians to emerge from Election Day on Tuesday is Brian Banks, who has been convicted eight times for felonies involving bad checks and credit card fraud. Banks, a Democrat and lifelong Detroiter, won a seat in Lansing as a state representative for the 1st District, representing the east side of Detroit, Harper Woods, and the tony Grosse Pointes. He won 68 percent of the vote to Republican Dan Schulte's 32 percent. 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." "...and you can take that to the bank. And, since you're going there, could you cash this for me?" "It's time to elect a leader, with experience and passion, who will fight for you," he wrote on his website. ...until I go back to jail. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 He sounds appropriately experienced for the job, or even promotion to national representative. After all, who floats more bad checks or commits more credit fraud than government? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-11-08 13:40 |
| #4 Our Gibbon will have a surfeit of material. |
| Posted by: Creresing Barnsmell5798 2012-11-08 12:11 |
| #3 Frank, you misspelled Democratcy. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-11-08 11:50 |
| #2 clearly representative democracy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-11-08 11:45 |
| #1 Detroitistan, Mogadishu North...a long time ago it was once even called the Paris of the Midwest, now it's the Zimbabwe of the Midwest... |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2012-11-08 11:26 |