Ethics

Think the Presidential Campaign is Nasty?

By Ed Brayton

Wait till you hear about the commissioner in Cobb County, Georgia who hired a voodoo priestess to give her opponent cancer. Best of all, she wrote her bad checks to do it:

Cobb County Commissioner Annette Kesting today repeatedly denied accusations from a South Carolina "voodoo priestess" that Kesting wrote $3,000 in bad checks for the woman's services.

George Ann Mills said Kesting approached her at home in Blythewood, S.C., in late August seeking otherworldly help against Democrat Woody Thompson, who beat Kesting in the primary runoff vote for the District 4 seat representing southwest Cobb.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).