These jailed Democrats are still running for office
They can’t hit the campaign trail — because they’re in jail.
At least two Democratic pols, one in Georgia and another in Texas, are continuing to run for office while behind bars on criminal convictions, and both will still be serving their sentences when election results roll in next month.
The Lone Star State pol, state Rep. Ron Reynolds, a disbarred Missouri City personal injury lawyer, is expected to win his unopposed bid to keep his state legislative seat despite beginning a one-year sentence last month for ambulance chasing, trying to line up clients right after an accident.
“Since there is no Republican in this race, he has essentially locked down victory,” Houston’s NBC affiliate posted online of Reynolds.
“Which means Reynolds will be celebrating election night in jail.”
In northwest Georgia’s 14th District, US congressional candidate Steve Foster of Dalton is running a longshot campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Graves.
“Look, I’m not withdrawing,” Foster, who’s less than halfway through a six-month DWI sentence, told the AP.
Democratic US Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has appeared in campaign ads supporting Reynolds, a fourth-term member of the Texas house — and won’t denounce him now.
“I trust the wisdom of the voters in Texas,” O’Rourke told the TV station this week.
Actually, the voters of Texas haven’t been bothered by Reynolds’ criminal record in the past. He’d been elected to his most recent two-year term in 2016, while he was still free on appeal for the misdemeanor conviction he’s now serving time for.
In upstate New York, GOP Rep. Chris Collins is continuing to run for re-election despite being under indictment for insider trading — but he’s pleaded not guilty and is free on $500,000 bail.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/19/these-jailed-de...or-office/
They can’t hit the campaign trail — because they’re in jail.
At least two Democratic pols, one in Georgia and another in Texas, are continuing to run for office while behind bars on criminal convictions, and both will still be serving their sentences when election results roll in next month.
The Lone Star State pol, state Rep. Ron Reynolds, a disbarred Missouri City personal injury lawyer, is expected to win his unopposed bid to keep his state legislative seat despite beginning a one-year sentence last month for ambulance chasing, trying to line up clients right after an accident.
“Since there is no Republican in this race, he has essentially locked down victory,” Houston’s NBC affiliate posted online of Reynolds.
“Which means Reynolds will be celebrating election night in jail.”
In northwest Georgia’s 14th District, US congressional candidate Steve Foster of Dalton is running a longshot campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Graves.
“Look, I’m not withdrawing,” Foster, who’s less than halfway through a six-month DWI sentence, told the AP.
Democratic US Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has appeared in campaign ads supporting Reynolds, a fourth-term member of the Texas house — and won’t denounce him now.
“I trust the wisdom of the voters in Texas,” O’Rourke told the TV station this week.
Actually, the voters of Texas haven’t been bothered by Reynolds’ criminal record in the past. He’d been elected to his most recent two-year term in 2016, while he was still free on appeal for the misdemeanor conviction he’s now serving time for.
In upstate New York, GOP Rep. Chris Collins is continuing to run for re-election despite being under indictment for insider trading — but he’s pleaded not guilty and is free on $500,000 bail.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/19/these-jailed-de...or-office/
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