A 23-Year-Old Mayor Tried Trump's Stolen Election Playbook. Only It Worked.

[Eugene]

Source: Daily Beast

BABY-FACED KILLER

A 23-Year-Old Mayor Tried Trump’s Stolen Election Playbook. Only It Worked.

“I’ve... seldom seen a political takeover that was this sleazy, and yet this well-orchestrated,” one local columnist wrote.

Justin Rohrlich
Reporter
Updated Jan. 23, 2023 10:59AM ET Published Jan. 23, 2023 4:49AM ET

A small Kansas town is reeling after a baby-faced 23-year-old manipulated procedural technicalities to reinstall himself as mayor in one night, seemingly taking a page from the playbook used by former President Donald Trump after he was voted out of office.

Only, this time, it worked.

“People have said this reminds them of Germany in 1935,” Jeffery Jones, whose bid for a council seat in Goddard, Kansas, collapsed last week as Hunter Larkin abruptly took control, told The Daily Beast. “Like, ‘Hey, we don’t like you anymore and we’re gonna vote you out and put our own person in.’”

The convoluted machinations by which Larkin maneuvered his way back into power were described as “essentially, a coup” and reminiscent of a totalitarian regime, according to one recently departed council member. And while Goddard, a Wichita suburb with a population of just under 5,400, isn’t necessarily going to influence policy shifts on a national scale, the strategy used by Larkin—a right-winger who last year promoted an appearance in Goddard by accused sex pest and conservative kingmaker Matt Schlapp—could serve as a stark warning of what’s possible elsewhere.

“I have to hand it to Larkin,” Wichita Eagle columnist Dion Lefle wrote. “I’ve covered cities for a long time and have seldom seen a political takeover that was this sleazy, and yet this well-orchestrated.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-23-year-old-mayor-tried-trumps-stolen-election-playbook-only-it-worked

[CurtEastPoint]

1. omfg. THIS SMUG PRICK'S FACE is in the HALL OF FAME FOR SLAPPABLE MUGS

[Sanity Claws]

2. Looks like Hitler Youth

[3Hotdogs]

7. Aw, Jesus, did ya have to? Now I gotta stay awake tonight, trying to figure out if I'd rather

punch Ted Cruz's face or this shithook's.

[Rebl2]

8. Must agree

[Marcuse]

3. Paywall. Too bad.

[Eugene]

4. I'm not encountering a paywall. Anyway, the article is also on Yahoo News.

https://news.yahoo.com/23-old-mayor-tried-trump-094933814.html

[Marcuse]

5. Interesting. Thanks.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Here:

How a 23-year-old mayor used the Trump playbook to seize power in Kansas - All In - MSNBC
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017799596

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. Sounds like a conspiracy to defraud the citizens of Goddard, Kansas.

[sarcasmo]

9. "Accused sex pest?"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. He has plans to go on from there. He's running for the Kansas House of Representatives

https://electhunterlarkin.com/about/

Contact
Address:

7 W Cedar Pointe Ct.
Goddard, KS 67052

Phone:

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