Top 10 Embarrassing Things that Didn't Stop People from Getting Elected
Scott Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts in spite of a nude pictorial in a 1982 Cosmopolitan magazine spread that made his detractors titter. Here's a look at other politicians who emerged victorious despite past indiscretions
Marion Barry was re-elected twice as mayor of Washington and served for almost 10 years before an infamous 1990 FBI sting operation caught him smoking crack cocaine with a former girlfriend turned informant. Footage of the drug bust and his infamous reaction — "Bitch set me up" — drew tremendous media attention, as did the ensuing trial.
After serving a six-month sentence, Barry made a surprising return to politics; in 1992 he ran for and won a city-council seat under the slogan, "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C." And he didn't stop there. In 1994 Barry won a fourth term as mayor; while he chose not to run for a fifth, he was re-elected to the city council in 2004, a position he has held ever since, despite a guilty plea to misdemeanor tax-fraud charges in 2005 and a July 2009 arrest for allegedly stalking a former employee. Barry's Lazarus-like career inspired a HBO documentary in 2009, fittingly titled The Nine Lives of Marion Barry.
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