edwin edwards.term in the 1970s he admitted his wife took $10,000 from a south korean rice magazine nature. in his second stint in the mid-'80s he was indicted on charges of mail freud, obstruction of justice and bribery. the first trial ended in a mistrial, the second in an acquittal. he uttered his most famous lines the only way he would be taken down if he was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. in 1987 he lost. he tried for a come back in 1991. it was a doomed mission. maybe he could get out of the jungle primary, his negatives were sky-high. no way he would crack 50% in the runoff. except actually there was one way for him to do it because the other candidate who made it out of the jungle primary was a republican who most recently been a state representative but who before that had been the grand wizards of the knights of the ku klux klan. so then he became the good guy in the race something that was perfectly expressed in what's my all time favorite political bumper sticker, said vot