http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer
It was 20 years that R. Budd Dwyer, the state treasurer of Pennsylvania got caught with his hand in the cookie jar to the tune of about $300,000 and was facing 55 years in prison on bribery charges. On January 22 1987 Budd called a press conference where he pronounced his innocence by pulling a .357 magnum out of a manila envelope, placing the barrel in is mouth, and pulling the trigger. (This was fatal by the way.) This was shown on live TV throughout the state of Pennsylvania, and was the inspiration for the song "Hey Man Nice Shot" by the band Filter in 1995.
Budd should be a model for all current and future politicians. He knew he was guilty and did the right thing. There are a lot of guilty politicians in power today, (all of them) but non have the guts to do the right thing by turning their skull into a bloody pile of bone and brain matter on live TV.
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