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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper
TIL of Byron Looper, a Tennessee politician known for both changing his middle name to “(Low Tax)” as a vote-winning stunt and, during a Tennessee state senate race, assassinating his opponent. In the election, held a month later, he still received 1,531 votes.
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He’s certainly death and taxes.
This is where Rich ‘LowTax’ Kyanka of SomethingAwful got his nickname. He was going to school in Tennessee when all of this happened.
Commitment
In all fairness, it’s not like voting for the other guy would have gotten them anywhere at that point.
He’s also Vladimir Putin’s cousin.
vote for Johnson, the name you know
He took that whole Looper thing too seriously I guess
I think it was P.T. Barnum that said “Promise people lower taxes and they’ll elect a murderer.” A clown in his circus said “I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Out loud.
I remember this. School was called off the rest of the day when this happened.
“I like him bc he isn’t like the other candidates”