Imprisoned Ex-Rep. May Run for President

[LynneSin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=3&u=/ap/20030801/ap_on_el_pr/traficant_2004

Imprisoned Ex-Rep. May Run for President

WASHINGTON - James A. Traficant, a former Ohio congressman in prison for bribery and racketeering charges, has given his approval to supporters to form a presidential exploratory committee.

"The battle to free James Traficant and to evict the Socialists and 'free traders' from the Democratic Party is now under way," campaign spokesman Marcus Belk said. "Someone buy the Washington establishment a bottle of Maalox."

Belk said the group, which announced Friday that it had gotten Traficant's approval, has raised $10,224 in cash pledges made on Traficant's campaign Web site. The average contribution was $71, he said

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Does that mean we get an avatar with James Trafficant's picture on it?

[qb]

1. Here's a better one

[LynneSin]

2. WHAT IS THAT ON HIS HEAD?

Is that a birds nest?

[birdman]

3. Dead animal

Looks like it died of natural causes.

Will there be a draft Traficant movement ?

[qb]

4. That's his real hair!

It only looks like a bird's nest.

[goobergunch]

5. LOL

Traficant got 15% in 2002 from prison in his district, so he's not a viable candidate. But it's still funny...

:-)

[salin]

6. LOL - guess he thought with the sideshow in California - to make the Dem

primary a sideshow as well. What I want to know is how he will appear in the democratic debates. Teleconferencing in, in his prison orange?