Archie Brooks Is Still Alive

Marc Hansen has a update in the Des Moines Register on convicted asshole and crooked former Des Moines Councilman Archie Brooks, who was involved in the CIETC scandal, who is now out of prison and making sandwiches at the family grocery store. And crocheting.

What can you say about this puff piece?

Here are some of my favorite comments:

Hey Rod Blagojevich needs a fluff story done on him

Awww, poor Archie. With that said, need to go brush my teeth. This fluff piece made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Too bad the jobless Iowans who missed out on two million dollars worth of training did not get so much sympathy from the southside "machine". These people have to go. As a Democrat, I am ashamed that Whitney and Mauro and Crawford and their ilk have been running local government like their own little kingdom. We have to stop their hand-picked candidates in the primaries and at party conventions until they join Archie in well deserved powerless obscurity.

I hope this is the last we ever hear from him in the press.

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I hope Archie met his true love in prison.

I will not purchase another sandwich at B&B. I did not realize that it was owned by the brooks family.

Archie Brooks is a common crominal, he deserves no sympathy for anything, he should still be in prison.

I find it hard to swallow that the Register would do a story on one of the more crappy illegal things done to the people of Iowa. Mr. Brooks did this with his eyes wide open, with no conscious for the people he was affecting and has to pay $600 a month after doing a stay in minimum security prison? Give me a freaking break... make me wonder how much he took in paybacks, kickbacks and so forth as a coucilman, how much was his pull when he was with Ruan... Seriously, when will we see a feel good story on Jason Bowers or drunk driver who gets five years of hard time... but steal millions of money from the state and people of the state... a slap on the wrist and a feel good story... just nominate him for "Person of the Year"... why doesn't Chet give him an award or something so the Register can put their picture on the front page... what a joke of a story... I hope Mr. Brooks can sleep at night with his millions of hard earned money whil everyday Iowans struggle... write a story on that

Awwwwwww..... poor poor Archie.... DMR - Why do a feel good story about someone who stole more than a million dollars from poor people desperate for job training? I guess Archie still has some buddies at the DMR? This makes me sick.

At least Archie can look back on the events that led to his imprisonment, and consider that it was all worth it because RAMONA CUNNINGHAM WAS A SMOKIN’ HOT PIECE OF TAIL!!!!

More On Those Johnson and Linn County Primary Statistics

After primary season I took a break from the blogging to do some vacationing, but now I'm back.

Via an occasional email contact, I have some very interesting statistics that I wanted to share with you. It's basically an update of the post More Republicans Than Democrats Voted In Linn And Johnson Counties from last month, but with hard data and links.

Here are some stats worth noting:

http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/VRStatsArchive/2010/CoJune10.pdf - In Johnson County (Iowa City), there are (as of June 2010) 40,593 registered Democrats, 16,515 registered Republicans, and almost 30,000 registered Independents.

http://www.johnson-county.com/auditor/returns/1006party.htm - the Party Change statistics are eye-opening. 478 Democrats changed to Republican, whereas 27 Republicans changed to Democrat. Of Independents, 212 switched to Democrat and 526 switched to Republican.

http://www.johnson-county.com/auditor/returns/1006primsum.htm - For results of the primary, there were more Republican (4847) primary voters in Johnson County than Democrats (4138). This, in a county where Democrats lead Republicans 40,593 to 16,515, is a telling statistic.

Don't forget that in 2008 in Johnson County, Obama got 70% of the vote to McCain's 28%.

Granted, the Republicans had an additional horse race going on (Governor and 2nd District House) than the Democrats (US Senate), but still it wasn't as if Roxanne Conlin was a shoo-in for the Democrat nomination for the Senate race until polling published right before the primary.

In fact, most polling data showed Conlin barely having much more of a chance of beating Chuck Grassley than did Democrat challengers Bob Krause or Tom Fiegen.

Now on to Linn County.

First off, Linn County (June 2010) had 52,085 registered Democrats, 50,367 Independents, and 35,603 Republicans, according to the Iowa Secretary of State's office.

At the time of the primary, registered Democrats increased to 54,853 and registered Republicans increased to 37,461. (source: Linn County Auditor PDF).

Party change (source: Linn County Auditor PDF) shows that 947 Democrats switched to Republican while 72 Republicans became Democrats. "No Party" to Democrat was 254, while "No Party" to Republican was 1461.

Out of that, 4350 Democrats voted in the primary, compared to 13,584 Republicans.

Don't forget that in 2008 in Linn County, Obama got 60.01% while McCain got 38.48%.

I would have analyzed Polk County (Des Moines) information, but the Auditor there isn't as forthcoming with information.