This gives a whole new meaning to the commonly used phrase, "We elected some clown to serve in Congress"
Amplify’d from news.yahoo.com
SAO PAULO – Grumpy the clown won election in a laugher, getting more votes than any other candidate for Brazil's Congress. Now he has to prove that he can read and write.
The Sao Paulo Electoral Court held a closed-door exam for the clown turned congressman-elect on Thursday to determine if he meets a constitutional mandate that federal lawmakers be literate.
Francisco Silva became famous as Tiririca — "Grumpy" in Portuguese — and received about 1.3 million votes, nearly twice as many as the next-highest vote-getter in last month's congressional elections.
Read more at news.yahoo.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/f62x
No comments:
Post a Comment