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Tom Zawistowski, executive director of the Portage County TEA Party, said there was controversy in the ranks when it was announced that Traficant would address the group, and said many people called to say they were "embarrassed."

Organizers of Sunday’s Jim Traficant Appreciation Dinner are confident the guest of honor will make an appearance at the event. [snip]

Congressman James Trafficant lacks Sandy Berger's friends and connections. This hurts him because he has all of Sandy Berger's bad habits. It's nice that the good people at Uncle Sam's Hotel are willing to give Former Congressman Soprano free room and board. Prior to incarceration, Trafficant was a master of the Special Orders Speech on the floor of The House of Representatives. Perhaps it was a shame that the old highbinder was always chucking these oratical fireballs late at night; after the children manning The Clinton Whitehouse had snacked on their milk and interns and gone to bed. Here is...

South Carolina Senate Candidate Marcus Belk, the head of Former Ohio US Rperesentative Jim Trafficant's 2004 White House Exploration Committee, spoke with us while on the campaign trail in Manhattan.Q.Describe how Trafficant is doing, what his normal day is like, or anything like that.He's in very good spirits. His letters always reflect classic Trafficant. The words are written in large letters and there are lots of exclamation points and you know its Jim Trafficant writing the direction of the campaign.As soon as the California Gubernatorial Primary is over and soon after Wesley Clark announces and the official 10 are settled...

The House of Representatives gathered tonight to cast judgment on one of their own for besmirching the reputation of that august body.James Trafficant, the rogue Democrat from Youngstown, Ohio faced expulsion for being convicted of taking bribes and other assorted felonies involving chump change that wouldn't get Terry McAuliffe's nipples hard. His judges in the House were fellow members who have betrayed their country, gutted the Constitution, looted the treasury, abused their governmental power, obstructed justice, physically assaulted their fellow citizens, and did nothing about a member who impeded what turned into the murder investigation of one of his mistresses.I...

With "El Poco Loco Dicko" Gephardt's prediction of gaining 30-40 seats last week, it might be worthwhile to point out that he already is in the negative column. In my state alone, the Dems are down two seats, and will not gain one back. Tony Hall (D-Dayton) left the House for some overseas appointment as some sort of "food minister" (i.e., a ceremonial token appointment) and the redistricting has already ensured that "moderate" GOP former mayor of Dayton, Mike White, will be his replacement. But White is MUCH better than quasi-socialist Hall, whose only redeeming quality was that he was...

This is going to be must see t.v.

<p>OKLAHOMA CITY - Nearly seven years after the bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, most of the victims consider themselves veterans who have faced down catastrophic terror.</p> <p>The 168 dead, including 19 children, have long been buried. The building destroyed by the blast, on April 19, 1995, has been replaced with a memorial park and a national museum. And the bereaved, hundreds of them, are on the mend.</p>