Posted on 09/02/2010 6:43:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's official.
TPMmuckraker's favorite ex-convict ex-Congressman Jim Traficant will appear on the ballot for his old House seat in Ohio.
A county board of elections ruled today, in a meeting that lasted less than a minute, that Traficant has enough signatures to make it on the ballot.
Traficant, who was a Democrat while serving in the House, is running in the 17th District as an independent against Rep. Tim Ryan (D). Ryan replaced Traficant in 2002 when he was kicked out of Congress over 10 felony convictions for bribery, racketeering, tax evasion and other charges. Traficant was released from prison last fall.
He has promised, if elected, to take on the IRS, saying in September that he would "kick them in the crotch real good" and vowing to repeal the 16th Amendment.
Cynthia McKinney’s hair only get an 8 on the crazy scale? Cynthia rates a 9.5 just breathing.
MAkes you wonder if he wore that “rug” just for fun. Sort of like wearing a cowboy hat in NYC in February.
Shouldn’t McKinney be the 11 and Traficant be the 8?
I’m with you. Hope he’s the same. Used to enjoy watching him on those after session “special reports” or whatever they are called.
Bet he gets back in!
Me too! He was entertaining and if I remember he did not seem as left as the usual suspects
Traficant got a 27% ACU rating in 1998.
Traficant was busted for not paying the taxes for the $160,000.00 in bribes that he did not pay taxes on, and never turned in.
Sorry, he didn’t get a 27% ACU rating in 1998, that was his LIFETIME rating in 1998.
“Traficant’s lifetime American Conservative Union rating was 27% in 1998.”
ACU ratings—”Specter has a lifetime rating of 44.47, while Snowe has a lifetime rating of 47.88 and Collins a 49.55.”
I know absolutely nothing about the alchemist but Traficant on all issues is well known.
As for being a felon. It was a Democrat hatchet job.
Show me issues on which he wrong versus being right.
He kept the bribes that he took from organized crime when he was Sheriff.
He voted against every single article of impeachment against Clinton.
Again, I say that you would be hard--pressed to find a Democrat that isn't taking bribes; but if you toe the Party line, and don't make trouble, you skate. You piss off the Party, and they'll sic the prosecutors on ya.
Are you actually defending corrupt, bribe taking Sheriffs that partner up with Organized Crime?
Don't know where you came up with THAT idea. LOL
What I said was, he was prosecuted because he didn't vote en bloc with The Party; while others that have done worse and stuck with the votes as expected are NOT prosecuted or indicted.
Post 13, he wasn't "rail-roaded, he was caught, thank God.
Politicians like “beam me up” give a fun side to politics. I hope he has learned a lesson, and I wish him well.
He was a congressman for 17 years that's seventeen years.. before the charges were brought, by the 'mafia' no less. Duh!
ya i love that rug
Again; he was ONLY "caught" because The Party wanted him out, and replaced with a Party Loyalist. Otherwise, (if he wasn't maverick-voting), he would NEVER have been outed.
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