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Books : Idiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political UntruthinessIn association with Amazon.comby: Leland Gregory  List Price: $9.99 Amazon.com's Price: $7.49 You Save: $2.50 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 320.9730207 EAN: 9780740769702 ISBN: 0740769707 Label: Andrews McMeel Publishing Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Studio: Andrews McMeel Publishing Sales Rank: 748076 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Leland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. Inside Idiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political Untruthiness Gregory offers more than 250 accounts of bumbling bureaucrats on both sides of political party lines: ·David Spellman became mayor of Black Hawk, Colo., on July 12, 2006, a week after pleading guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault for pistol-whipping his wife with a handgun and firing three shots in 2005. ·County officials in Vermillion, Ind., were told by state homeland security officials in July 2006 to stop using the special emergency-only highway message boards to advertise their charity fish fries and spaghetti dinners. ·District 1 Town Councilor David Watson resigned from his position as council vice chairman on January 23, 2007, after unintentionally forwarding an e-mail to 18 members of the New Elementary School Building Committee. The e-mail contained nine embedded images of topless women under the heading "This Is National Women's Breast Awareness Day." The only other text in the e-mail read, "Beats . . . Martin Luther King Day, doesn't it?" Author's web site: www.realwacky.com/ Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Entirely misleadingI bought this book thinking that it would be a sort of historical accounting of "Lies, Tricks, Misdeeds and Other Political Untruthiness." Wow was I disappointed. The book does nothing of the sort. Basically, it points out several everyday facts (if you know anything of governmental goings-on at all) and pokes fun at these by means of the author's own unintelligent, snide attempts at wit and humor. This part alone is enough to make one want to take a giant black marker to the last sentence of ... Read More Rating:  - And These Are The Best and Brightest?!?Leland Gregory, who has based a writing career on stupidity (STUPID CROOK BOOK, WHAT'S THE NUMBER FOR 911?, IDIOTS AT WORK, etc.) herein offers up 300 pages of political dimwits at work on the local, state and national levels. Warning: If you believe the best and brightest go into politics, you probably shouldn't read this book! IDIOTS IN CHARGE is chock full of stupid statements, dumb decisions, ego trips, childish tantrums, legislative pork, outright criminal behavior and everything ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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