Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018

[packman]

But it's all O.K. because they were persecuted by that evil Obama administration--

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.
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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 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

Blankenship served one year in prison on 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 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.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-arpaio-2018-election_us_5a563b5ae4b03417e8743168?section=us_politics

[Irish_Dem]

1. They will use the same defense Trump uses, they are victims of the "deep state."

And use it as a badge of honor.

In the new world order, bad is good and good is bad.

[JPPaverage]

2. Blankenship should have gotten life without parole

29 counts of murder. I was in the mining industry (sort of) and involved with MSHA when Upper Big Branch happened and it's kind of personal. The fucker bought off judges after they told him there was no way out.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. And the rest of them are criminals, yet to be convicted