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For Pete's sake!

‘I’ve broken into houses, stolen cars, mugged many people, I’ve sold drugs and guns, had genital warts, gonorrhea, crabs, herpes and more.’

‘I've broken into houses, stolen cars, mugged many people, I've sold drugs and guns, had genital warts, gonorrhea, crabs, herpes and more.'

It was not a normal pitch for a council seat. But then Peter Lyndon-James, the newly elected councillor for the Altone ward of City of Swan Council in Perth, Western Australia, was not your normal council candidate.

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