August 28, 2007 4:23 PM
Ward 7: Wink, wink
taken from www.cityhallscoop.com
Reporter tnelson@pioneerpress.com
Some political candidates might be deterred by an arrest record.
Not Jim Casci.
We were gearing up coverage recently for the Sept. 11 primary and we found the Ward 7 challenger's page on Myspace, the site he lists at the top of his voluminous fax communications. On the site, he's converted a recent mugshot into an animated gif -- it's now a winking Jim Casci in custody.
"Is that my mugshot?" he said when we called him about it today. "Well, what's wrong with that? It gets a lot of attention."
He was arrested -- but not charged -- for making phone threats to former St. Paul police chief Bill Finney in 2005. "It was a false arrest," he assured us when we asked him about it today. "It was malicious prosecution and attempted murder. I take 17 pills a day, and they didn't give them to me. It was all a set-up deal..."
Wink wink. jimcasci@comcast.net
