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House candidate arrested for gun at airport dropping out (JJJ's seat)
Politico ^ | 12/28/12 | ALEX ISENSTADT

Posted on 12/28/2012 12:10:24 PM PST by Libloather

Democratic State Sen. Donne Trotter is dropping out of the Illinois special election to succeed former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.

Trotter had been seen as a leading candidate in the race. But his campaign was hit hard earlier this month after he was arrested for trying to take a handgun through a security checkpoint O’Hare Airport in Chicago. He told police the weapon was from his job as a security guard and that he forgot about it.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airport; banglist; chicago; gun; guncontrol; house; il2012; jjj; secondamendment; tsa
Talk about bad timing. That's a shame. Don't quit your security guard job. (Ever had to use that gun in, um, Chicago?)
1 posted on 12/28/2012 12:10:32 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Doh!


2 posted on 12/28/2012 12:12:32 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

He didn’t ‘forget about it’....he is/was a CANDIDATE for the brother’s seat! His TSA bro’s were supposed to pass this on by!


3 posted on 12/28/2012 12:19:58 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Libloather
“He told police the weapon was from his job as a security guard and that he forgot about it.”

Liar!!!These bastards are trying to collect our guns and they all carry them..I guess Obama found someone else to take Jesse Jackass Jr place so have to mark this one off the list..

4 posted on 12/28/2012 12:20:47 PM PST by PLD
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To: Libloather

Oh, yeah. Donne “Pop Gun” Trotter. The supremely confident armed security officer who supposedly carries nothing bigger than a .25 as his duty weapon. What a guy!


5 posted on 12/28/2012 12:21:46 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Libloather
Security guard with a .25.

"He shouldn't have carried it in the garment bag," said Lisa from Glen Ellyn, a gun enthusiast and shooter who ridiculed his tiny weapon. "He should have had it in a sequined fuchsia clutch. Something with a little pop."

FR link.
6 posted on 12/28/2012 12:24:57 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Libloather

but yet, that child molester hasn’t dropped out?


7 posted on 12/28/2012 12:27:17 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Libloather
Trotter? Isn't this the .25 caliber moron?

Donne "Two-bits" Trotter.

8 posted on 12/28/2012 12:29:35 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Liberals are a wrecking crew dismantling civilization by replacing what works with what feels good.)
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To: Libloather

fine. he dropped out. when are formal criminal charges like any of the rest of us would face?(except David Gregory)


9 posted on 12/28/2012 12:33:47 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Libloather
Another Democrat hypocrite who carries his own gun, but no-doubt would have voted against gun rights if he were in Pelosi's caucus?

-PJ

10 posted on 12/28/2012 12:44:05 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Libloather

Doesn’t matter.

Chicago has an unlimited supply of corrupt, venal, ill-educated, and quite stupid dolts who are available, will get elected, and afterwards, will well and successfully carry on the liberal agenda.

And of course, if this dolt happens to be black, he/she/whatever will be elected by a landeslide by folks lusting after the latest Nike piece of excrement and their new Obamaphone.

CW-II, it’s a’comin’.


11 posted on 12/28/2012 12:44:25 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Senate? Is everyone in Chicago going stoopid? From WGN -

Trotter to end bid for Jackson’s senate seat

12 posted on 12/28/2012 12:57:44 PM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: 1rudeboy

>who ridiculed his tiny weapon.

hee hee!


13 posted on 12/28/2012 2:27:22 PM PST by RitchieAprile (the obstreperous gentleman..)
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To: Libloather

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

14 posted on 12/28/2012 3:22:22 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Libloather

That would be: Donne “Too Small” Trotter.

I guess he will have to go back to being a guard now. With his little gun.


15 posted on 12/28/2012 3:27:38 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Libloather

that he forgot about it.

Oh come on people he’s a rat it was just an oversite nothing more,move along nothing to see here. Maybe he should have told them who he was.


16 posted on 12/28/2012 5:46:38 PM PST by bikerman (What ever happens from now is all OBAMA's fault. Obama lied,economy died)
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To: Libloather
Seriously, a security guard is also a State Senator?

Boy, talk about how a powerful state senator has gamed the system to make it all the way up to a security guard!

Next, we will hear how he actually needs to show up at the job.

17 posted on 12/29/2012 6:53:25 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Gaffer
He didn’t ‘forget about it’....he is/was a CANDIDATE for the brother’s seat! His TSA bro’s were supposed to pass this on by!

But someone put the Word out, to scoop him up and indict him.

He was out of line, the seat he applied to run for is taken already. It belongs to Barky, who's going to steer it to one of the Other Brothers in his choom posse.

One of the regulars at Man's Country, no doubt.

18 posted on 12/29/2012 11:43:21 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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