Crimes no longer a disqualification for Republican candidates

[Perknose]

Re-elect 'em up!

Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is a felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, hiding $900,000 from tax authorities and making false statements under oath. To hear him tell it, that’s a reason Staten Island Republicans should vote him back into office.

“It’s almost identical to what the president has been going through..."

Following his [Trump's] lead, Republican Senate candidates with criminal convictions in West Virginia and Arizona have cast themselves as victims of the Obama administration’s legal overreach. Another former Trump adviser who pleaded guilty to a felony has also become an in-demand surrogate, as Republicans jump at the chance to show their opposition to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

But there's good news, folks!

Grimm says only some convicted criminals have a justification to run in a Republican primary.

I, for one, am relieved that Republican (Crime) Family Values are being upheld!

 

[Bitek]

No longer?

Thought it was a pre-req.

 

[whm1974]

I thought that Felons couldn't hold office or even vote?

 

[AntonioHG]

There's more: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a563b5ae4b03417e8743168

 

[UNCjigga]

Well obviously, if the President AND Attorney General were black when they were convicted, then these white felons should be pardoned. Because justice.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

There's more: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a563b5ae4b03417e8743168

Holy shit there’s Pruitt’s replacement right there.

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.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Blankenship's commercials are aired constantly here, drives me crazy.

 

[theeedude]

Hard to find Republican politicians who aren't corrupt or crooks, so they gotta do what they gotta do.