Two days after a resounding election defeat, the ex-mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts was in court Thursday to be arraigned on six criminal charges stemming from a run-in with a police officer at a polling place.
Innocent pleas were entered by Michael Bissonnette. A pretrial hearing was scheduled for Dec. 4.
Bissonnette and Chicopee Police Lt. John Provonost allegedly got into a heated shouting match on Sept. 8th when the former mayor walked into a polling place for the preliminary election and the cop told him to remove a campaign button.
Bissonnette believes his poor relations with the police in general cost him a lot of votes.
"The fact there is an increase in crime going on I think people were concerned I might have difficulty working with that department." said Bissonnette after conceding defeat Tuesday night in his bid to get the mayors job back.
Bissonnette lost by a two-one margin to Mayor Richard Kos.
