Posted by
Chris Field on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:21:53 PM
Mayor Barry is known as "mayor for life," but he can't contend with Neculai Ivascu.
This from today's Washington Post (actually, the Post's KidsPost -- yes, I check out the KidsPost . . . mostly to
watch for propaganda):
The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor, preferring him to his living opponent.
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died
from liver disease just after voting began but still won the election
by 23 votes.
"I know he died, but I don't want change," one villager said.
Election officials gave the post to the runner-up, but some villagers have called for a new vote.