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09-27-2014, 01:42 PM
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RIP James Traficant Jr.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/fa9886...y.html?hpid=z1
"James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the U.S. House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Sept. 27 at a hosptial in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73." "A family spokeswoman, Heidi Hanni, confirmed his death to reporters. The former congressman was injured in a tractor accident on his farm near Greenford, Ohio, on Tuesday. A former aide told reporters in Ohio that he apparently had a heart attack while driving the tractor, which overturned inside a building and left the former congressman trapped underneath. Mr. Traficant, a maverick Democrat who found his own path politically and seemingly in everything else, was one of the most deliberately outrageous members of Congress in history. Glib and voluble, he was known for wearing cowboy boots, skinny ties and out-of-date polyester suits and for a bouffant mound of hair that seemed to defy gravity." WaPo 
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#2
09-27-2014, 03:43 PM
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I remember when Jim was the local Sherriff and just getting into politics. He was one of those people who was so charismatic that you suspected he was a bit crooked but you didn't care.....because he would tell it like it is, in a very loud, blunt and humorous way.
Jim was Jim and he didn't give a shit, you don't like him. RIP, Jimbo! Scotty has beamed you up for real this time. Dave
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#3
09-27-2014, 03:46 PM
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Videos on the way.
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"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
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09-27-2014, 03:53 PM
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__________________
"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
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09-27-2014, 03:55 PM
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"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa Last edited by BlueStreak; 09-27-2014 at 03:58 PM.
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09-27-2014, 03:57 PM
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__________________
"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
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09-29-2014, 08:52 AM
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A crooked nut
 Very entertaining. At the end he was reported at a lot of tea party gatherings. Pete
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#10
09-29-2014, 01:09 PM
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They were his people Bob
 http://www.cleveland.com/nation/inde...aficant_c.html I'll miss the hairpiece jokes myself. Pete
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