When Republican's kill.. Check out A&E's American Justice tonite:

[gatorboy]

"Eliminating The Competition ”

http://www.aetv.com/listings/episode_details.do?episodeid=135378

If anyone's interested, here's a bit of info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper

In 1992 Looper returned to Tennessee and became a Republican. He lost a race for the state house in 1994, but in 1996 he was backed by the state GOP in a race for technically nonpartisan Putnam County Tax Assessor, which he won. As tax assessor, Looper used his office's equipment to flood state media with a number of bizarre and self-congratulatory press releases, though he failed repeatedly to file property tax valuations with the state government on time. Some charges were made that Looper offered reduced tax assessments to local businesses in exchange for large political contributions, although few if any businesses actually responded to the offer. Later, an ex-girlfriend sued him for child support and fraud, charging he had used his official position to steal her house.

In March of 1998, Looper was indicted on 14 counts of official misconduct, theft of services and official oppression. Looper claimed the charges were politically motivated, even though at the time the state government was largely in the hands of the Republican Party.
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On the morning of October 19, authorities were called to investigate a likely murder at the Burks farm. Tommy Burks' body was found with his head resting on the steering wheel of his pickup truck. He had been speaking moments earlier with a farmhand, Wesley Rex, about work that needed to be done on the farm. Both men had seen a black car, driven by a man in sunglasses and black gloves, driving by the farm on multiple occasions that morning. The car had later sped by Rex's truck, allowing Rex to get a view of the driver.

The Cumberland County authorities immediately began a standard homicide investigation but could find no one with any plausible reason to murder Burks. Then Wes Rex called up Burks' wife after seeing a picture of Looper on television, and told her that Looper was the man he'd seen speeding away in the black car the morning of the murder.

"He was the first Republican elected in Putnam County, at least in recent memory, and he made quite a name for himself, but not a good name. He had a bombastic campaign style, a way of offending anyone that was status quo, and he did it repeatedly."—Looper's defense attorney, Ken Poston, in his opening statement to the jury
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Sounds like a Republican to me!

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Yep, saw it this afternoon.

The Democrat was beloved; had been in office for multiple terms.

This Republican guy CHANGED his NAME to "Low Tax" Looper. What a fucking tool. I hope he rots.