Nevertheless, Traficant, a convicted felon, told an audience in Akron this week that he will make a bid to return to Congress this year.
''They should surrender!'' Traficant said in his booming voice to about 30 people who attended a fundraiser Tuesday night for Kurt Liston, a local Libertarian candidate, at Tangier restaurant. ''People tell me, 'Watch it — they will put you back in prison.' Maybe so. Quite frankly, Scarlett . . . That's the attitude you've got to have.''
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He isn't sure if he'll run as a Democrat, which he has been all his life, Republican or independent. Disgusted with the two leading parties, he said his main goal is to lead the charge for a viable third party.
''The Democrat and Republican parties have failed,'' he said. ''Both are as worthless as tits on a bullfrog.''
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I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one. With the policeman in the background, it looks like that pic may have been taken as he left prison and those may have been prison clothes.
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