A Conviction Might Limit, but Not End, a Political Career, Observers Say – New York Times

A Conviction Might Limit, but Not End, a Political Career, Observers Say

By JONATHAN P. HICKS
Published: March 8, 2008

A charge of drunken driving is the kind of news development that can hurt a politician’s ambitions for higher office. But in the case of Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, it is far from a political kiss of death, many politicians in Harlem and around the city said on Friday.

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