Dead Man Re-Elected as Mayor

About 50 miles from St.Louis, a small town called Winfield recently re-elected their mayor Harry Stonebraker in a landslide election. The problem, you see, is that Harry died on March 11th of a heart attack, about a month ago.

Lincoln County Clerk Elaine Luck wasn’t surprised by Stonebraker’s win saying she’d, “figured he’d win because he seemed to get even more popular after he died, just like Carnahan,” Democrat Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash weeks before the November election, but still defeated his opponent. In the end his wife was appointed a special senate seat until a special election could be held.

In place of Harry, a mayor will serve until a special election in April 2010 to pick a mayor for the remainder of the two-year term.