Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

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

WASHINGTON ―  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 him one 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 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 (R-Mont.), who is running for re-election

[jg121783 3,915]

What does it say about how pathetic the Democrat candidates are when you can run criminals against them who have a chance of beating them?

[spookyturtle 9,465]

9 hours ago, jg121783 said:

What does it say about how pathetic the Democrat candidates are when you can run criminals against them who have a chance of beating them?

It says more about how pathetic Republican voters are who put the party above the good of the people. 

[jayjayj 571]

4 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

It says more about how pathetic Republican voters are who put the party above the good of the people. 

 

That is a pathetic thing to say.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Just now, jayjayj said:

 

That is a pathetic thing to say.

Agreed, he shouldn't have said it. 

[jayjayj 571]

1 minute ago, spookyturtle said:

Agreed, he shouldn't have said it. 

 

This conversation has taken a very strange turn in the last few minutes.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

7 hours ago, jayjayj said:

 

This conversation has taken a very strange turn in the last few minutes.

I think the conversation took a real weird turn the Republicans embraced an alleged pedopdophile as a Senate candidate. Putting up convicted criminals as candiates would pretty much seal the deal on Republican irellevance. Not sure why Dems are to blame for that.

Edited January 11, 2018 by Il Mango Dulce

[T'challa/Storm 18]

8 hours ago, jayjayj said:

 

This conversation has taken a very strange turn in the last few minutes.

Not really. Republicans have made it clear as day they don't care about morals and principles when it comes to folks with an R by their names, but look quite foolish trying to check others on the subject of morality.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

51 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

I think the conversation took a real weird turn the Republicans embraced an alleged pedopdophile as a Senate candidate. Putting up convicted criminals as candiates would pretty much seal the deal on Republican irellevance. Not sure why Dems are to blame for that.

do you really want to get into Dem criminals vs Repub criminals.  More political theater 

[T'challa/Storm 18]

6 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

do you really want to get into Dem criminals vs Repub criminals.  More political theater 

The question is why would you want to get into that? Because last time I checked, I don't recall a Dem running for office who was banned from malls. Also, isn't the GOP's whole mantra we're the morally correct ones?

 

 

Edited January 11, 2018 by T'challa/Storm

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

2 hours ago, T'challa/Storm said:

The question is why would you want to get into that? Because last time I checked, I don't recall a Dem running for office who was banned from malls. Also, isn't the GOP's whole mantra we're the morally correct ones?

 

 

You know as good as I do neither party can claim the high ground when it comes to morals, crooks, perverts and reprebates. 

 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

12 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

You know as good as I do neither party can claim the high ground when it comes to morals, crooks, perverts and reprebates. 

 

How many felons are the Dems running for Congress?  

[Keith & Arileidi 437]

46 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

How many felons are the Dems running for Congress?  

Democrats keep their slime on the DL. 

Hidden under their fake progressive agendas. 

 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, Keith & Arileidi said:

Democrats keep their slime on the DL. 

Hidden under their fake progressive agendas. 

 

Good to know