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Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018

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  1. KingCheetah

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    Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018

    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 himone 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.

    Blankenship served one year in prison for a misdemeanor conviction for conspiring to evade safety laws after the death of 29 miners at his Upper Big Branch Mine in 2010. Grimm, a former FBI agent, pleaded guilty to of felony tax evasion in 2014. And last year, Gianforte also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for body-slamming a reporter days before winning a 2017 special election. So far, the national Republican party has said it supports Donovan over Grimm, but it is also backing Gianforte, who is the only one of these convicted candidates currently in office. The party has not endorsed anyone in either West Virginia or Arizona.

    Three of these men — Arpaio, Blankenship, and Grimm — have suggested that their convictions show they were persecuted by the Obama administration for their political beliefs. The actual evidence suggests otherwise.

    Blankenship referred to himself as a “political prisoner” of the Obama administration as is seeking to rehabilitate his image through a electoral run. Grimm claims that he was a victim with “the entire Obama Justice Department weaponized against me.” And Arpaio called his conviction for refusing to follow lawful court order a “political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department.” At a rally in Phoenix before Trump issued his pardon, the president asked the pro-Arpaio crowd, “Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-arpaio-2018-election_us_5a563b5ae4b03417e8743168


     
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    Drain the swamp
     
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    I would suggest that you vote for their competition if you are eligible to vote in their respective races.
     
    #3 Astrodome, Jan 10, 2018
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    Morally bankrupt politicians for a morally bankrupt party.
    That's a separate issue from the Republican party being held accountable for being okay with criminal thugs representing their party, with the biggest criminal of them all as the President.
     
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    Exactly. But this is the party that tried to mislead and distract people regarding the Russian investigation, and then got upset when the testimony was released and spoiled their attempted deception of the public.
     
    #5 FranchiseBlade, Jan 10, 2018
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    I'd rather raise awareness and change the world by posting on a Houston Rockets basketball fan site.
     
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  7. Kevooooo

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    lol this Blankenship character...wow.

    Have y'all seen his commercials? It's like he has no soul.

    http://time.com/5265521/don-blankenship-west-virginia-senate-ad-china-people/

    Anyways, the funny stuff comes when he starts calling Mitch McConnell "Cocaine Mitch." And now McConnell tweeted an edited Narcos promo referencing cocaine. https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-mocks-blankenship-twitter-045244209.html

    By far the funniest thing Mitch has done in his entire life.

    Also, is "China people" really racist? Is it not racist to add an apostrophe s? "China's people." He's referencing outsourced jobs going to China. Sounds more like hillbilly WV talk then racism to me. If he were referring to Americans of Chinese descent, then I'd find it offensive. Other than that, it just sounds like an old country dude.
     
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    "Chinaman" is a slur, so it's not a stretch to say "China people" is a slur, even if he just invented the term. Old country dudes spouting hillbilly talk are probably the number one demographic for throwing slurs around.
     
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    I honestly wonder if Blankenface has Parkinson's onset or something.

    Or maybe he's auditioning for a commentator role if this whole politics thing doesn't work out for him.

    [​IMG]
     
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    lol omg that's like exactly what he looked like in his article...lol JVG's face cracks me up.
     
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    I agree that Chinaman is considered a slur, but would you consider "China's people" a slur? He's referencing the Chinese taking American jobs. I really didn't see it as an insult, more of an inaccurate portrayal of a global economy and the effects on American workers. But China has always been a big target when discussing business and jobs. So how should people refer to the people of China so they aren't mistaken as racist? If it's not a stretch to see it as a slur, it shouldn't be a stretch to see it as innocent.

    He might very well be racist, btw. I don't know a lick about him. I just didn't get any sense of racial animosity from his political ad. More nationalist than racist.
     
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    It's racist because he's trying to connect Mitch McConnell's wife to it.
     
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    Blankenship response

    “We’re confused on our staff as to how it can be racist when there’s no mention of race. There’s no race. Races are Negro, white Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian. There’s no mention of a race. I’ve never used a race word.”


    Lol, Confused old convicted loser
     
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    Did you make that quote up or did he really say that? lol -- seems plausible just based on the two campaign ads I've seen.
     
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    Apparently he did!
     
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    I remember when the republicans thought their party was the civilized one...



    Which I suppose was a poor sports response to the Turtles scoreboard tweet:

     
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    SRSLY, the turtle's team taunted Tweakenface with nose candy? What a time to be alive.
     
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    On the High Seas? Are there any "tasty treats" involved?

     
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