RSSFormer US Rep. James A. Traficant Jr and Felon Says He is Going to Run
A true political metaphor …
You have got to be joking … Former US Representative and felon James A. Traficant Jr is going to run for office again in Ohio in 2010. Just what we need a convicted felon running for office. That is of coarse as opposed to all the nonconvicted felons that are presently in the House.
And we wonder why the American people have no confidence in politicians.
“I’m going to run,” Traficant declared before some 35 members of The Biz Society assembled at the Rosetta Stone restaurant downtown to launch the group’s Youngstown chapter.
Traficant said he still isn’t sure which district he’ll throw his hat in, but he has nominating petitions circulating in three congressional districts –the 17th, the 6th and the 16th. And, the former congressman noted he hasn’t decided on whether to run as a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, or perhaps on another party ticket.
“I’m going to run for Congress somewhere,” he said.
Maybe Traficant can run on the Con ticket?
Traficant’s announcement comes just four months after the former congressman was released from a federal prison in Rochester, Minn., where he served a portion of a seven-year sentence for racketeering and bribery. The congressman was convicted in 2002 and became the second member to be expelled from of the House of Representatives since the Civil War.
As NRO states, some OHIO race is about to get real weird … Traficant says ‘beam me up’ in 2010.
Posted December 30, 2009 by Scared Monkeys 2010 Elections, Bizarre, Crime, House Elections, House of Representatives, Politics, WTF | 12 comments |
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Sad thing is, there are some people in OH that would still vote for this CERTIFIABLE LOON.
Some people were just born kinda nutty. All the
prescription meds and quality time spent with a
shrink… just ain’t gonna help.
It’s gotta be the hair!
I thought a person could not vote if a convicted felon….so how will he cast a vote in Congress? is there a double-standard or something?
He fits right in with this current administration. Maybe Obama will appoint him as one of his czars.
#2,
He can run for office, be just might not be able to vote. Although, I believe it is they can only not vote when they are in jail. Once out, that is a different story.
If memory serves me correctly, I believe Trafficant ran for political office while in jail.
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As Traficant was known to say often on the floor of the House, “Beam me up, Scottie!”
I personally would enjoy seeing him on the floor again. If nothing else he was amusing and sometimes surprisingly a contrarian thorn the side of his Democrat “colleagues”.
I also believed convicted felons were not allowed to hold federal or state offices.
Truth of the matter is this. If we could hold trial on all politicians that have been in office, are now in office, and will be voted in office, we’d find 1000′s of actions of felonious detail. If we were to take away all who have committed felons, but not been caught, or who’ve been caught but “slipped” through via the “good ole boy system”, there’d few politicians in office. Theft, corruption, unethical behavior, scandal, is all a part of politics. They should be removed from office. The wolf has already consumed all the hens, nothing left but the henhouse. Time to refill with genuine citizens with integrity.
side skipping the point if some1 like this should be ellected
if he has served out his sentence, didn’t he pay for his crime?
I was a Congressional Investigator for Jim and I have written a book titled: “TRAFICANT GOT SCREWED AND SO DID WE” My book PROVES Jim did not do a damn thing wrong! It PROVES the feds made up the entire case against Jim out of nothing! It PROVES how and why! All of his affidavits and tape transcriptions his trial judge the dishonorable Lesley Wells would not admit as evidence are in my book! The “felon five” J.J. Cafaro, James Sabatine, R. Allen Sinclair, David A. Sugar Sr. and Anthony Bucci were looking at over 1000 years in prison for OTHER crimes and in the end for LYING against Jim for the feds NONE of them went to jail! NONE ! Jim Traficant will return to Congress via the 2010 election not because the people are stupid but because when they had a problem with the VA, Social Security, IRS, etc., he and his staff RESOLVED those problems! We remember what he did for us! Youngstown, Ohio is one of two cities in America that has two federal courthouses! He NEVER said “Beam me up Scotty….he said…”beam me up! He ran for office from prison in 2002 and got 27,850 votes! The U.S. Constitution guarantees Jim the right to run for FEDERAL office only! He can vote! The last four Christmases Jim was in prison he could have gotten released in exchange for signing an admission of GUILT! He did not do so! Why? He’s not guilty! Wait till you read about the jury tampering by the feds as told by a FORMER JUROR….no Traficant fingerprints on over 1000 prosecution documents….a fake murder for hire tape MADE BY THE FBI stating Jim wanted a witness killed…AND SO MUCH MORE !! Semper Fi ! VOTE TRAFICANT !!
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Trafficant had an open door policy when he was in power. Get rid of RYAN, vote for JIMMY!