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Mel Reynolds Vows to Serve Jail Term and Leave the Country: "I'm Done With America."
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 11, 2018 | Mark Brown

Posted on 05/11/2018 10:15:37 AM PDT by PBRCat

Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds is headed back to jail, but for a short enough time — four months — that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.

“I’m done with America. I’m going to do this, and I’m going home — to Africa. … I’ve given up on America,” Reynolds told reporters after U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sentenced him to six months imprisonment for his failure to file income tax returns.

“It’s really a tragedy you’ve squandered the opportunities you’ve had and the type of person you could have been,” the judge told Reynolds.

Reynolds, whose amazing rise from poverty to become a Rhodes Scholar, Harvard grad and then congressman was matched by an equally amazing fall from grace during the 1990s, had sought probation.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: congress; corruptdems; melreynolds; reynolds; taxes; trials
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Another transformational leader with a compelling personal narrative. Reynolds was Obama before Obama was Obama. A do nothing political hack peddling snake oil while posing as an intellectual from an elite university.
1 posted on 05/11/2018 10:15:37 AM PDT by PBRCat
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Can’t we commute the sentence so he can leave now?


2 posted on 05/11/2018 10:17:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: PBRCat

No, America is done with YOU, loser!


3 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:10 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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Hopefully there are no Catholic School girls wherever he’s going.


4 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:26 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: DoughtyOne

LOL! I was thinking the same thing.

And after he goes, somehow find a way to code his records so they he’s denied re-entry here.


5 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:30 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: PBRCat

The epitome of affirmative action


6 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:31 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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How sad- Mr “Boo Hoo look at me, I need attention” is leaving America

Do you need gaS money sir? plane ticket? Perhaps one of your socialist friends can help you out


7 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:40 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: DoughtyOne

Bwahahahaha... good riddance!


8 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:45 AM PDT by simpson96
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p01d
9 posted on 05/11/2018 10:20:54 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.

Might happen, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Zimbabwe kicked him out for possession of pornography.

10 posted on 05/11/2018 10:21:14 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: 2harddrive

I sure hope President Trump will send him a nice goodbye tweet. :)


11 posted on 05/11/2018 10:22:18 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: PBRCat

Rape targets are plentiful


12 posted on 05/11/2018 10:23:46 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Mel says having to pay taxes is racist, yet when he was a Congressman, Reynolds sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (26%) Crime and Law Enforcement (26%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (17%) Health (13%) Commerce (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%)

He obviously didn't have any problem voting to make other people pay more taxes.

13 posted on 05/11/2018 10:25:08 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Rhoades scholar?...Harvard?...

so many things are awarded to a select few such as obungos' Nobel peace prize..absolutely no connection with reality...prizes are based on political correctness...

14 posted on 05/11/2018 10:26:28 AM PDT by cherry
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To: simpson96; ExTexasRedhead

“I sure hope President Trump will send him a nice goodbye tweet. :)”

I hope the President gives him a free ticket in exchange for his US Passport and his signature on a form renouncing his citizenship, and does it on national TV! And maybe at the same time, he can make the same offer to Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, and all of the rest of the “Hollywood $hit” that is always threatening to leave the country.


15 posted on 05/11/2018 10:27:04 AM PDT by vette6387
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Welcome home!


16 posted on 05/11/2018 10:27:16 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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He’s in for a surprise when he gets to Africa.


17 posted on 05/11/2018 10:28:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Buh-bye...


18 posted on 05/11/2018 10:29:32 AM PDT by Wolfie
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19 posted on 05/11/2018 10:29:55 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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I wish more criminals would leave. Works for me.


20 posted on 05/11/2018 10:30:49 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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