All I can say is 'Beam him up!'
James Traficant, the populist Ohio politician who served in the House of Representatives for 17 years before becoming the second person to ever be expelled from Congress since the Civil War, died on Saturday. He was 73. Traficant, who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, died at a hospital in Youngstown on Saturday only days after suffering a tractor accident at his daughter’s farm, which left him in critical condition. Traficant was flown to hospital Tuesday night “after a vintage tractor tipped over on him inside a barn at the farm in Green Township,” reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Police think the tractor tipped after Traficant struck a piece of farm equipment with a bar installed on the front of his 1943 Ford tractor.”
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I know Traficant went to jail and all, but I can't help thinking that there are lots more members of congress that do worse than him. He was just so off the wall and such that there was nobody looking out for him like there would have been a normal congrescritter.