Because the IRS tried to get him to pay taxes on his massive bribe money, that he kept , Traficant turned against them.
You guys approve of this stuff? You mean that now when I watch a liberal democrat, corrupt sheriff, on the take from organized crime and exploiting his employees like personal servants, but audaciously colorful, in a movie, that I have to know that some fellow Americans that call themselves "conservative" are approving and want to vote for him?
LOL. Jimmy, as I made clear in my HO and in my post, is one damn big crook. Sleazebucket though he undoubtedly was, his primary problem was not with the IRS, it was with the Clinton Administration, which felt threatened about other disclosures the wild boy might make. As far as not reporting the swag from the goombas, well, you got to give the boy an A+ for originality. It was, he says, evidence in HIS investigation. When they start cleaning out the "Black Caucus," I'll take the charges more seriously.
But as far as "on the take from Organized Crime," goes: if it weren't for organized crime, Northeastern Ohio, like Arkansas, and New Jersey, among other places, wouldn't have any organizing principle at all. After all, as a Democrat stronghold, someone has to run the place.
Now I happen to agree with you that the voting booth is no place to teach the Republicans their RINO lessons. Don't know a damn thing about Graham, put rest assured, that if I were pulling levers in that district, he would have my vote over Jimmy, as would any other Republican.
Your problem comes in when you have a total candy-ass RINO like o say, Dede Scozzafava, being challenged by an independent Conservative. Then waddayado? Lose?