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Double Stunt

Tim Murray has laid claim to the Republican nomination to represent Oklahoma’s third district in Congress. Murray may only have gotten 5.2 percent of the vote, and 82 percent of voters may have picked incumbent Frank Lucas, but Lucas, Murray claimed, is ineligible. According to a letter Murray posted online, Lucas was shown on television “being executed by The World Court on or about Jan. 11, 2011 in Southern Ukraine.” Lucas denies ever having been to Ukraine. “We know that it is possible to use look alike artificial or manmade replacements,” Murray wrote. “This is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being a body double or a robot,” Lucas responded. (AC/KFOR Oklahoma City) ...That’s not a denial.
Original Publication Date: 27 July 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 21.

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