Minnesota is your typical Midwestern state with a reputation for hospitality and a dynamic progressive movement. The electorate has a history of propelling unconventional candidates to victory, including Jesse Ventura and Al Franken.
Now, left-of-center voters have the option to cast ballots for convicted double murderer Leonard Richards in the primary against incumbent Senator Amy Klobuchar.
This isn’t the first time Richards made the ballot in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Law & Crime reports:
Richards is something of a perennial candidate for public office.
In 1992 he ran in the DFL primary for Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District and tallied in excess of 14,500 votes. In 1994, he ran for the U.S. Senate in the DFL primary and notched substantially less support: a little over 4,000 votes. But those were just two of his seven runs for office from inside of a prison cell. So, Richards’ commitment to running seems to be solid.
But even if he were to perform the politically unnatural feat of dislodging the widely-respected Klobuchar, Richards would never get a chance to even take the Senate oath. In the early 1990s, Richards was convicted of two murders in Minnesota’s Hennepin County: the 1982 killing of his sister-in-law May Wilson and the 1987 shooting of his attorney Robert Stratton.
Back to that friendly reputation.
In Minnesota, it’s perfectly legal for felons to run for federal office.
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