Well-connected political prodigy becomes a murder suspect

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080427/NEWS05/804270347

Prodigy's 'puzzling' fall leads to murder charge

By JEFF ECKHOFF and CYNTHIA REYNAUD • REGISTER STAFF WRITERS • COPYRIGHT 2008, DES MOINES REGISTER AND TRIBUNE COMPANY • April 27, 2008

Farragut, Ia. -- Matthew Joseph Elliott seemed destined for the spotlight.

He was a star in speech contests and school plays at Farragut High School. He also pitched for the baseball team. He was charismatic, a talker, and when he discovered politics, he blossomed.

He was elected governor at the Iowa Boys State mock government convention in 1998 as a junior. He followed the accomplishment with a year as head of his high school student council. Later came a term as student body president at Drake University and a front-line job in legislative campaign battles for the Iowa Republican Party.

All before he turned 25.

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1. Power brings an attitude of arrogance?

As Lincoln stated, you can tell a man's character by what he does with it when he gains power.

Apparently Republicans think they can get away with everything...including murder (and genocide for the Congress).