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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
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)or a delusion at best.
I don't understand why this is reported on as if it's normal.
tanyev
(42,523 posts)or does the internet just make it easier to find out this kind of information and disseminate it?
postulater
(5,075 posts)I didn't think even that many Republicans were that nuts?
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)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.