Like most sane people, I wouldn't trust a politician further than I could throw him. This article about the New Orleans mayorial race is pretty generic (underdogs take primary, etc.), but it's still worth the read just for this paragraph:
Irons, 48, had been the only major aspirant before the third-term referendum. But she was hurt by Pennington's candidacy, and the revelation that a brother described in campaign ads as a victim of "violence in the streets" actually died in a shootout with police after a robbery.
I want to know what spin-meister decided to make that part of the campaign.
