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By David A. Love
... Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate, after receiving a pardon from Trump for a contempt of court charge for failing to curb his anti-immigrant and anti-Latino racial profiling policies in violation of civil rights ...
In West Virginia, Don Blankenship, the former coal mining company head who went to prison for a year on mine safety charges that were brought after a disaster that killed 29 miners, is challenging Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin ...
In Staten Island, New York, former FBI agent and Rep. Michael Grimm, who pleaded guilty to tax evasion, is making a comeback as a Trump loyalist after serving seven months behind bars ...
Another is Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist who is a self-described "pro-White Christian American candidate" vying for House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin. Black Trump supporters Diamond and Silk received $7,000 to star in a campaign ad supporting Nehlen ...
http://www.weny.com/story/38116240/the-strange-collection-of-extremists-running-for-office-as-republicans
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(67,405 posts)LonePirate
(13,419 posts)Republicans and many Independents will vote for anyone without a D next to their name. These low lifes are merely taking advantage of the extreme idiocy and disregard for government that is rampant in this country.