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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate (and football hall-of-famer) Lynn Swann, who says state taxes are too high, was revealed by the Allentown Morning Call in March to have been neglecting to collect legally required state sales tax from the Pennsylvania customers of his football memorabilia Web site.
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris donated $100,000 of his own money to his campaign in April, six months after successfully begging a judge to cut his $2,000-per-month child-support payments in half (and conceding that he had not disclosed that he owed his ex-wife $44,000 more from a property sale). Harris said even paying $1,000 a month was “pretty darn generous” of him.
Pasco County, Fla., candidate John Ubele, 28, a proud member of the white separatist National Alliance, said he’s more concerned with runaway government expenses than with race as he campaigns for a seat on the county’s Mosquito Control Board.
New York state Sen. David Paterson, running for lieutenant governor, said in March that he now regrets introducing unsuccessful legislation for 14 straight years (until 2001) to make it legal for suspects to physically resist police.
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