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A namby-pamby statement on Traficant 
Posted on: August 9, 2009
Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras issued a statement about the impending release from federal prison of former Congressman-turned-criminal James A. Traficant Jr. that can only be described as a joke. It would have been better had Betras kept his mouth shut.
A chairman is supposed to define the moral underpinnings of the party, and in the case of Traficant, the issue is clear: No honest person in the Mahoning Valley can embrace him as a conquering hero. But that’s what his many supporters, almost all of them Democrats, are doing.
Betras’ statement should have said, “Let’s not add to our already negative political reputation by honoring Traficant when he is released from prison on Sept. 2.”
Instead, here’s what the chairman said in a statement e-mailed to the press: “I know that many people hold great affection for him and are anxious to welcome him back, but it is my hope that they will respect his privacy as he rejoins our community. I wish him and his family well as they begin a new chapter in their lives.”
Talk about namby-pamby. Gag me with a crooked politician.
Betras, who hasn’t been the leader of the county Democratic Party very long, must know that his refusal to repudiate Traficant only feeds the perception that all politics in this region are tainted.
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You are so RIGHT,and what is better is Betras,and Ryan are both COWARDS, in that they can't hold a OPEN TOWN HALL MEETING with people to hear how they feel about HealthCare and more,but they can have a meet and greet for the Democratic Party.All betras wants to do is SUCK UP to the people who are Democrats, and those who like Jim Traficant, so they will continue to support Democrats.
how does it feel?.... sounds like braying lunatics
I agree with Mr. de Souza.
It's not easy for me to say this, but...gulp...Betras is right.
James Trafficant will have paid his debt to society. The fact that there is much discussion of another run for Congress in 2010 suggests to me that there is great dissatisfaction with the current representative.
Would I vote for an ex-con over the current DSP rubber-stamper...you're GDR.
You are wrong again Non. Gulp-Bert is right.
Bert wrote: "No honest person in the Mahoning Valley can embrace him as a conquering hero. But that’s what his many supporters, almost all of them Democrats, are doing."
But it's OK for the Vindicator to constantly print stories related to Traficant. Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Jim has severed his time and paid the price . Lets take a look at JJ Cafaro . When Jim was locked up it was business as usual for JJ .
There are those who would rather see Jim spend the rest of his days in prison than with his family . How would one best describe the negativity surrounding his release ? Would he be in the way or have too mich too tell ? My bet would be that people are worried that he would have too much to tell . He will be out of reach of the prison censors .
WELCOME HOME JIM ! IT'S TIME TO ROCK THEIR BOAT !
I am an honest person in the Mahoning Valley and I enthusiastically embrace Traficant as a conquered hero. I also firmly identify you, Mr. deSouza, as an intellectual prostitute.
Seriously - who really expected more from Btras?
That's Betras
Oh, I am sorry. I said I was sorry to associate himself with Ursuline(that was his wife). I mean, Mooney. He is a loser!
Uhh DeSouza, I am a conservative Republican that supports Jim Traficant. Most conservatives I know would back him if he ran for Congress over Tim Ryan.
Many liberals I know cannot stand the man..
True Valley, that is because liberals are thinkers and right wing conservatives have nothing to think with.
saddad:
I hate to burst your bubble but those who have a passion for thinking have been labeled as conservatives . A liberal is one who makes it a crime for killing a rabbit but views the killing of an unborn child as being a right .
Whether you like him or not, if Traficant did run and win a house seat, how effective would he be? He would not have the support in congress he would need to accomplish anything. Other members of congress would distance themselves. This is not real complicated people!
Conservatives are not thinkers but liberals are. The Unabomber was a liberal.
"Conservatives are not thinkers but liberals are. The Unabomber was a liberal.
You could say that the unibomber didn't think very well . He did have very liberal ways didn't he ?
Conservatives are thinkers??? Rush,Sara Palin,Glen Beck--these are the great thinkers?
Conservatives great thinkers??? Yeah, that's why most ivy leaguers are Liberals. Warren Buffett....Liberal. Bill Gates....liberal. Most of California where the silicon valley is full of great thinkers.......Liberal. Where are the conservatives? Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and the Mahoning Valley. Enough said!
the Unabomber was a liberal. Not many conservatives in the Mahoning Valley. Just union members. All the liberals you mentioned are capitalists for themselves or why else would they be so rich? Liberals murder the unborn. Liberals love and befriend murderers like Castro, Chavez. Liberals weren't shocked when millions of Cambodians were tortured and murdered by their communist heros. Liberals believe all live, animals, bacteria, viruses and humans are all equal. Liberals defend Islamic terrorists. Conservatives like General Eisenhower and men from Missippi, Alabama and Arkansas defeated Hitler and the Nazis saving millions of innocent lives. Liberals like Dr. Tiller murdered 60,000 innocent human beings for the almighty Dollar.
A few grammical and spelling errors. I goed to pubic skoolz.
The unibomber was insane. That's the problem with you people--you dont recognize insane. Before it is over you will kill the Republican Party.
saddad:
"The unibomber was insane."
Aren't all liberals?
Our leader Obama is doing his bit to put the Republicans back in vogue . We will then do our bit in 2012 to put him in the archives .
In the first instance Stan- the unabomber was anti leftist. In fact he was your kind of nut.
His is not grouped in my circle . Perhaps he was an organizer like Obama . Why are you trying to disown one of your own ?
Now youre talking gibberish Stan. Not capable of reason or recognizing and discussing facts, I think maybe you are one step away from being a Republican pundit. Keep up the good work.
Liar, the Unabomber was a lefto scumbag! He hated Capitalism, was against technology, lived in a cabin, used his poop for manure for his garden vegetables, road a bicycle he bought for $10.00 from a junkyard, made booby traps to maim innocent Americans! Facts, honesty and truth are irrevelant to Saddad because he's lefto scum too. I'll quote Murder Lenin again, Fellow Travelers in the West are Useful Idiots.
Brain worm
Everyone from the South defeated Hitler?
I'll bet there was a lot more soldiers in ww2 from the North than from the South.
I didn't know California is in the South. I thought it is in the West. Remember, the conservatives won WW2, not peace loving fools like Chamberlain. No wonder Hitler stated Chamberlain wasn't equal. Libs are anti-gun, pro abortion, big spending fools and they've always have been.
Pro American--too bad you don't know what you are talking about.
I.m not anti gun. I'm pro life.I know you're not--you're just anti-abortion.
Big spending fools??? Try your President for 8 years.He had a trillion dollar war that not one penny has been paid for.
The Unabomber was what is typically known as a grass roots liberal . Today his is being kicked under the bus by his own !
"The Unabomber was what is typically known as a grass roots liberal . Today his is being kicked under the bus by his own !"
Kinda like Jim David Adkisson was a grass roots conservative?
Rocky, I do know what I'm talking about. The GOP s..k. too. Bush was a big tax and borrow liberal and the Dems are big tax and spend liberals. I'm also pro-life. By the way, I despised Bush for his Trillion Dollar spending. But Obams is a 4 Trillion spender. Are you a Tea Partier? Check it out.
I would never have thought that when i got to be an old fart that it would be the older farts that freaked me out. They say they worry about the future-but most of the people raising hell at the tea parties and town halls look like they have a life expectancy of about 30 months. The people so willing to throw gas on the fires of civil unrest probably wont have to suffer the consequences long. It gives a new meaning to Ugly American
Civil unrest is an American right; oh, I'm sorry, only the left, ACORN, NOW, the SEIU and all other anti-
American organizations have that right. Nancy Pelosi, the traitor who traveled to Iran to conference with the murderous, sextist leadership clergy (the election cheats) was more than willing to wear a scarf on her dried up, Botox and plastic surgery head and face but didn't consider that to be anti-woman. Be glad we have patiots to protect us from military, econonic tryanny like national "health" insurance and excessive taxation and regulation.
Republican Party has chased all thinkers away-See the article
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/...
Bert wrote: "In the case of Traficant, the issue is clear: No honest person in the Mahoning Valley can embrace him as a conquering hero."
That's absurd ... there are intellectually honest people [including one of the jurors] who consider Traficant to be a 'political prisoner' ... particularly in light of the total absence of evidence of ANY Traficant crime.
(What? Does anyone take J.J. Cafaro's word about bribing the man he was scheming to replace in Congress with his teenage daughter, Capri?)
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/in...
(Or Allen Sinclair's assertion that -- receiving and paying taxes on $5,000 per month -- he gave back $2,500 to Traficant and thus did legal work for McDonald's wages? And what about Sinclair's four other not-yet-investigated hidden bank accounts?)
Beam me up, Mr. Editor!
You are already beamed up Mr Ness. Where were you when the transcrpits of Charlie Crab were released?