11-05-2020, 11:37 AM
(11-05-2020, 11:29 AM)Stewy Wrote: Equal blindness on both sides as I said. You offer up Larry Householder, and I'll up the ante with Democrat James Traficant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant
Accepting bribes and defending himself (successfully somehow) increased his popularity and got him elected to 8 terms of congress. Then got convicted of corruption years later and expelled from Congress.
Fun fact, while my sister was attending American University in DC, she worked in Traficants office for 4 years.
Trying to stay on the current election. Householder was busted a couple months ago.
