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Gothmog

(145,881 posts) Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:12 PM Jan 2018

Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018

The GOP is not the party of law and order https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-arpaio-2018-election_us_5a563b5ae4b03417e8743168?section=us_politics

WASHINGTON ― When Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff, announced his Senate candidacy on Tuesday, he became the fourth viable Republican 2018 congressional candidate who’s been convicted of a crime. And like two of the other GOP cons running for office, he has cited his criminal record as a partial justification for his candidacy.

Arpaio was convicted of misdemeanor criminal contempt of court in July 2017 for defying a court order requiring him to stop illegally detaining people he suspected of being undocumented immigrants based on their race. President Donald Trump pardoned him one month later.

The other convicted criminals running for office as Republicans are Don Blankenship, the former head of the coal mining company Massey Energy who is running in the Republican primary to challenge West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D); former Rep. Michael Grimm, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) to reclaim the Staten Island congressional seat he once held; and Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Montana), who is running for re-election.

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Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018 (Original Post) Gothmog Jan 2018 OP

They are either people who beat people up for exposing them for who they are Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1

Article Title was misleading lapfog_1 Jan 2018 #2

Mueller thbobby Jan 2018 #3

'bedlum of crooks & liars' describes the GOP onetexan Jan 2018 #4

What are the other ones guilty of? Maraya1969 Jan 2018 #5

Juanita Jean-Just In Case Youre Counting Gothmog Jan 2018 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,134 posts)

1. They are either people who beat people up for exposing them for who they are

Reply to Gothmog (Original post)

Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:16 PM

Jan 2018

or business criminals.

These 4 beautifully represent that party.

lapfog_1

(29,243 posts)

2. Article Title was misleading

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Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:24 PM

Jan 2018

"GOP Tries to put the "Con" in Congress"

and my immediate reaction was "WTF, the GOP is almost entirely made up of "Cons" already! (as in Con men and Con Women)

Only when I clicked did I see that they were talking about "Convicts".

Oh well... If truth be known GOP is mostly a criminal conspiracy, so why not convicted criminals carrying the standard.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)

3. Mueller

Reply to Gothmog (Original post)

Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:27 PM

Jan 2018

will hopefully make many repugs currently serving convicts.

onetexan

(13,080 posts)

4. 'bedlum of crooks & liars' describes the GOP

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Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:53 PM

Jan 2018

Maraya1969

(22,509 posts)

5. What are the other ones guilty of?

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Wed Jan 10, 2018, 08:35 PM

Jan 2018

Gothmog

(145,881 posts)

6. Juanita Jean-Just In Case Youre Counting

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Wed Jan 17, 2018, 01:55 PM

Jan 2018

From Juanita jean http://juanitajean.com/just-in-case-youre-counting/

Republicans have four – 4! Count them – convicted criminals running for congress this year.

Don Blankenship, the former head of the coal mining company Massey Energy who is running in the Republican primary to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.); former Rep. Michael Grimm, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) to reclaim the Staten Island congressional seat he once held; and Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.), who is running for re-election.

And as long as we’re counting, 29 Republicans are leaving congress. Why? Here’s my theory. They know they built Trump and now they have to buy him. They know how mad people truly are.

That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.

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