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TIL that Richard Kyanka of Somethingawful got his username "lowtax" from Byron (Low Tax) Looper, a Tennessee Republican politician for whom Kyanka almost interned, who was convicted of murdering his opponent for State Senate, Tommy Burks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper
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I got here from Wikipedia's "List of Assassinated American Politicians" btw: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians
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There's a lot of other really interesting things in the articles it links to, as well... I'm kinda hesitant to link the rest that I found interesting though, for various reasons...