{"product_id":"idiots-in-charge-leland-gregory-9780740769702","title":"Idiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political Untruthiness","description":"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.\" --Tom DeLay, America's Community Bankers meeting, March 12, 2003 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* After revealing absurd 911 phone calls and America's dumbest criminal antics, former \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e writer Leland Gregory skewers political pandering and pen-pushing philosophizing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. Inside \u003ci\u003eIdiots in Charge: Lies, Trick, Misdeeds, and Other Political Untruthiness\u003c\/i\u003e Gregory offers more than 250 accounts of bumbling bureaucrats on both sides of political party lines: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* David Spellman became mayor of Black Hawk, Colo., on July 12, 2006, a week after pleading guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault for pistol-whipping his wife with a handgun and firing three shots in 2005. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* County officials in Vermillion, Ind., were told by state homeland security officials in July 2006 to stop using the special emergency-only highway message boards to advertise their charity fish fries and spaghetti dinners. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* District 1 Town Councilor David Watson resigned from his position as council vice chairman on January 23, 2007, after unintentionally forwarding an e-mail to 18 members of the New Elementary School Building Committee. The e-mail contained nine embedded images of topless women under the heading \"This Is National Women's Breast Awareness Day.\" The only other text in the e-mail read, \"Beats . . . Martin Luther King Day, doesn't it?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leland Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0740769707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780740769702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrews McMeel Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.02h x 5.12w x 0.88d","brand":"Leland Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540337357055,"sku":"9780740769702","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21b52a19-c55e-47cd-acff-e969f8189111.jpg?v=1700587333","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/idiots-in-charge-leland-gregory-9780740769702","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}