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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 06:36 AM Jun 2014

GOP Candidate Charges Opponent Is Dead, Represented By A Body Double

WASHINGTON -- Political opponents accuse each other of lying all the time, but one Oklahoma congressional candidate took his accusation to a new level this week when he claimed his opponent was actually dead and being represented by a body double.

KFOR in Oklahoma reports that Timothy Ray Murray believes Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), his opponent in the congressional Republican primary, was executed three years ago and is being represented by a look-alike. Because he believes Lucas is really dead, Murray said he will challenge the results of Tuesday's Republican primary, in which Murray received 5.2 percent of the vote. Lucas won the primary with 82.8 percent of the vote.

"It is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed by a look alike. Rep. Lucas’ look alike was depicted as sentenced on a white stage in southern Ukraine on or about Jan. 11, 2011," Murray said in a statement posted on his campaign website. The statement claimed Lucas and “a few other” members of Congress from Oklahoma and other states were shown on television being hanged by “The World Court.”


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/frank-lucas_n_5537217.html

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GOP Candidate Charges Opponent Is Dead, Represented By A Body Double (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
IMO Murray is probably suffering from a mental illness CJCRANE Jun 2014 #1
Are there truly more crazy people taking over the Republican party, tanyev Jun 2014 #2
How did this man get 5.2%? postulater Jun 2014 #3
Maybe Timothy Ray Murray is a frogmarch Jun 2014 #4
Methamphetamine induced schizophrenia Michigander_Life Jun 2014 #5

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
1. IMO Murray is probably suffering from a mental illness
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 06:51 AM
Jun 2014

or a delusion at best.

I don't understand why this is reported on as if it's normal.

tanyev

(42,523 posts)
2. Are there truly more crazy people taking over the Republican party,
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:10 AM
Jun 2014

or does the internet just make it easier to find out this kind of information and disseminate it?

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
4. Maybe Timothy Ray Murray is a
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:50 AM
Jun 2014

paranoid schizophrenic. A friend of mine has a brother who is, and he has similar delusions. He often sees their dead parents walking down the sidewalk or riding in an elevator with him or grocery shopping where he does, but now he realizes they're ET imposters.

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