This is apparently a real ad for the hotly contested Orleans Parish Coroner's race:
Poor Dr. Frankenstein Minyard. This takes negative campaigning to a whole new level.
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This is apparently a real ad for the hotly contested Orleans Parish Coroner's race:
Poor Dr. Frankenstein Minyard. This takes negative campaigning to a whole new level.
This article gives some details:
Someone please explain to me why a coroner is an elected office?
I'm looking forward to the retort: "It is true that my opponent, Dr. Moreau McKenna, never sells any human body parts - that is because he uses them up for his perverse and unnatural experiments to create a new race of freakish animal/human hybrids!!!"
On a different note, I really don't think coroner should be an elective office to begin with.
From a UK perspective I goggle at the amount of elected offices in the UK - not only can I not see the reason for coroners to be elected, but having police and legal officials elected seems to lock in perverse conflicts of interest.
Ah, I should be goggling at the amount of elected offices in the US, not the UK in my last comment
There's a difference in the US between the title Coroner and the title Medical Examiner. It's determined by the state which system is used; most states use the Medical Examiner, who is an appointed position and has to be a doctor. The coroner is an elected official and doesn't have to be anything, really. It is a relic from the days when the coroner was seen as the "people's representative"
to ensure that doctors were not using cadavers for medical purposes. To have a doctor in that position was the considered to be a conflict of interest.