You can’t make this stuff up.
The guy, Bryan Doyle, was convicted on six felony counts related to Medicare fraud and served a 30-month prison sentence. It’s illegal for felons to serve in the SC state legislature but not in the Federal House – the Feds could actually seat him.
Our singularly foolish – trust me on this – chairman of the state Democratic Party is agonizing over whether to support this guy who just won the Democratic primary for the district. The chairman says these things:
“He’s legally qualified, A. and B, we’re sending him to Washington, where fraud is a way of life. So I certainly don’t think it’s a disqualifier. We’d have to see what kind of effort he’s making.”
He says party officials would need to evaluate Doyle’s chances of success and campaign strategy before opting to devote resources toward campaigning for him.
Probably Harpootlian – that’s our Dem Party chairman – was trying to make a joke about the fraud but he’s dead serious about the Party supporting the guy if he could win. Both Parties are against axe murders in government unless they’re Party loyalists that could win.
S.C. Democrat with Criminal Past Runs for Congress
By Michael Biesecker and Meg Kinnard - The Associated Press
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