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- BeShirtHappy, on 09/17/2009, -1/+19I just watched City of Ember last week so it's the freshest in my memory... Bill Murray was great as the corrupt Mayor Cole, and without giving anything away - he gets what he deserves. :)
- BaddBrainz, on 09/17/2009, -2/+16Poor Lando, he really didn't have a choice in the matter. Then again, he was trying to hit on Leia.
- archivedigger, on 09/17/2009, -0/+11I forgot about that movie. You're right. Great baddie.
- AmyVernon, on 09/17/2009, -0/+6Yeah. But at least he ended up on the right side.
- kylere, on 09/17/2009, -0/+4I find it funny when people list Kwame Kilpatrick as a bad mayor. The city of Flint would have loved his low level of corruption. Our mayor from 2003 until forced to resign by a recall effort this year...
1. Was a convicted felon
2. Used car dealer (his felony was for buying cars in other states, half cash, half check then canceling the check)
3. Took an 8 million surplus, bragged about it until the day after his first reelection when it was revealed that the city had a deficit ranging from 14 to 50 million, they still have no idea how bad it was.
4. Refused to settle suits against the city that went from awards of 1 million to 150 million through his negligence.
5. Had city workers turn a bumpy, uneven, downtown street that ran next to a line of apartments into a drag strip
6. Bought the keys to the city from his wife's pawnshop
7. Selected as fire chief and police chief a father and son duo who were under federal indictment.
8. Fired everyone who disagreed with him, and hired his wife's hair dresser to be the city administrator and her Mr. Mcgoo-like husband to run the parks.
9. Made his police decisions based on the advice of a sheriff who lost his position for selling concealed carry permits.
This is just a sampling, he made every other mayor in the country look great - unknamed, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3Well, holy *****.... we have a new winner for the most useless top 10 list ever.
- buckrogers1965, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3Is that first or last name?
- swagv, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3Buried for "### Most ___" formula digg bait spam.
- darkism, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3I think Barack Obama and possibly Tony Peraica are the only clean politicians to ever come out of Cook County.
- Gruul, on 09/17/2009, -0/+2What about Zaphod Beeblebrox ? After all, he stole the Heart of Gold !
- emkaysmith, on 09/17/2009, -1/+3These "Top 10" lists are becoming a bit ridiculous. How about "The Top 10 Evilest Law Enforcement Officers Wearing Blue Socks in French Movies Whose Film Editors' Names Begin with 'J'"?
- verkon, on 09/17/2009, -0/+2Oh come on, why give lando so much *****. Not like he had much choice, vader has a big ***** space station that blows up planets. He more or less had to invite vader because of the aforementioned space station, and I think any mayor would let in the bad guy in their town then have the whole planet vaporised. He rescued luke and leia when vader altered the deal, and he helped to blow up the second death star with the bulkiest ship ever constructed, but no one ever mentions that.
- throwdini, on 09/17/2009, -0/+2I read this great "syfi" book called "Chicago." It is about this corrupt mayor called The Daley. Chilling stuff.
Before anyone tries to get political, the Republicans were just as corrupt in this book. - inactive, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1What about The Mayor from Action Leuge Now
incomplete list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8pK57pTfBI - lolerskate, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Pretty much every mayor in a city with a resident costume vigilante will be corrupted.
Gotham City mayor had ties to the mobs, Metropolis mayor was bought in by Lex Corp, New York as J Jonah Jameson as a mayor and he spends most of the taxpayers money on anti-spider-man squads. - pathouston22, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Me too! I've had the movie downloaded for months, but never got around to watching it, espesially with a 6.4 IMDB rating - no rush. But it was actually pretty good! A few cheesy spots, but for the most part I enjoyed it.
- Hetman, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Well at least he was not hitting on his own sister. So he has that going for him.
- anyup, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1Hurray for Mayor Wilkins! I always wanted him to break into song...
- DraxusD, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Can you prove you didn't rape and murder a girl in 1990? It doesn't work that way.
PS. I hate Glenn Beck too - chunkybeefstu, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1"This deal is getting worse all the time!"
- MrLeo1984, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Didn't the mayor in Perdido Street Station try and literally make a deal with the devil to solve the problem of the slake moths? It's been awhile since I've read it, but I would say it's hard to top that.
- Smokeydabear, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Yes, I can. I lost my virginity in 2001, when I was raped by Glenn Beck.
- seantubridy, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1We're really getting too specific with these lists.
- zyxxyz, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1Bomb Queen makes them all look like the pansy-boys they really are.
- DraxusD, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1Sweet. I once traveled to Mars on a ship made of twinkies and beer.
- seraph1982, on 09/17/2009, -2/+2anyone else finding this list at least a little too obscure to be interesting?
- Samuraizero, on 09/17/2009, -1/+1I'd say something is being forgotten...
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V. - Smokeydabear, on 09/17/2009, -6/+5You know what else is bad? Glenn Beck has yet to prove he didn't rape and murder a girl in 1990.
- DavidNiven, on 09/17/2009, -2/+1Why look to science fiction? There are plenty of Top 10 Corrupt Mayors in real life. Willie Brown of San Francisco and Marion Barry of Washington D.C. make the science fiction guys look tame.
- Number23, on 09/17/2009, -5/+311. Any democrat mayor from any mid-large size America City
Kwame Kilpatrick
Ray Nagin
Any Chicago Mayor in last 100 years
Marion Barry
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy
Well, too many to list
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