A Newly Elected School Board Member Served Time for Murder

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


By Associated Press 3:15 PM EST

(LA JUNTA, Colo.) — A man recently elected to a school board in southern Colorado spent more than a decade in prison in North Carolina for murder.

Thomas Seaba first discussed the conviction this week with KKTV and said he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for shooting and killing a fellow Marine in 1997. According to North Carolina prison records, Seaba was released in March 2010 after serving nearly 13 years in prison. He was on parole until December 2010.

Col. Donnie Worlow of the Onslow Country Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina told the station that investigators determined the victim was shot once in the back of the head, then Seaba returned and shot him four more times.

Seaba says he made “a set of horrific mistakes.”

Read more: http://time.com/5028252/thomas-seaba-la-junta-school-board-murder/

[Roy Rolling]

1. Wrongheaded

With qualifications like these, he belongs higher up in the Trump administration

[bluestarone]

2. yep and

give him a GUN

[marble falls]

3. In the article he claims commitment to public service runs in his family ....

and that he was a boy scout. Right. One round in the back of the head. And four more to the body later. Sounds like he was committed to public service and that the marksmanship badge from the BSA came in handy.

[LeftInTX]

4. This should have been made public before the election

It looks like he legally has the right to run and the right to serve in the position.

Probably could have been avoided if voters knew in advance.

Maybe the parents will demand a resignation.

[Igel]

5. There's good opposition research.

Then there's the "I must win because I am good and all others are pure evil, so there's no need to be fair, tell the truth, or even vet my sources if I think nobody else will" opposition research.

One's a commitment to truth and fairness; the other is a commitment to power. The first are good public services; the second is what we mostly get and too often admire.