Too Perfect: Mel Reynolds is Back

Seriously, people considered this doofus a rising star. You know, like the “rising star” in the White House.

UPDATE: I forgot to include this feel-good story, related to Mel Reynolds’ plans to take another stab at “public service.”

Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Resignation Could Cost Taxpayers $5.1 Million – ABC News

You can’t keep a good man down, or even a not so good man who likes to get down, like disgraced former Congressman Mel Reynolds. He was a Barack Obama type, with the cool persona, the Harvard degree, and the left-wing agenda, and without the hip biracial, multi-cultural background. Unfortunately for Mr. Reynolds, there was one other teensy weensy difference between B. Hussein Obama and Mr. Reynolds.   If you’ve forgotten him, here’s a little refresher, from the Chicago Tribune:

Reynolds held the 2nd Congressional District seat from 1993 until October 1995, when a Cook County jury convicted him of several sex-related charges, including having sex with an underage volunteer campaign worker. While serving time in state prison, Reynolds also was convicted on federal financial and campaign fraud charges. President Bill Clinton commuted Reynolds’ sentence to time served in 2001.

Ruh-roh. I wonder if Bill Clinton tried to explain to Mel that it’s OK to be a skirt chaser, as long as the skirts are worn by females over the age of 18, not 16 year-old campaign volunteers, or (imaginary) 15 year-old Catholic schoolgirls.

Now that the current representative of the 2nd District, Jesse Jackson, Jr,,  is on the way out, apparently Mel wants his old job back. Also from the Chicago Tribune:

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds said he will ask voters to focus on his congressional experience rather than his state and federal criminal record as he announced his bid today for the seat held by Jesse Jackson Jr., who has resigned.

At a downtown hotel news conference, Reynolds acknowledged having made “mistakes” in the past. For his campaign, he will try to assume the mantle of an incumbent while also seeking redemption from voters. Red and white campaign signs urged voters to “re-elect” Reynolds “so he can finish the work” while another stark red sign with white letters said simply: “Redemption.”

Of course, the  2nd District has had an “interesting” history, as the Chicago Tribune article notes:

Reynolds replaced Gus Savage, a controversial and outspoken congressman who was condemned by the House Ethics Committee amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving a Peace Corps volunteer while he was on an official congressional visit to Zaire.

After Reynolds resigned, Jackson won a special election in 1995 to succeed him. But after 17 years, Jackson stepped down last week amid federal ethics investigations and a diagnosis of bipolar depression.

As I often say, you can’t make this stuff up.

One commentator says that Mel Reynolds opened the door for Barack Obama, which is just another reason to despise him. This being Illinois, though, it’s certainly not a reason for the District’s foolish voters not to elect him.

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Shout out to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson: Any Marches Planned Over This Racial Violence?

In the last several days across America, racist vigilantes have taken it upon themselves to seek the justice that the judicial system has not provided. For example, in Chicago, the adopted hometown of our Sham WOW (Walks on Water) affirmative action chief executive, where there were 7 shootings in the last 24 hours, two concerned citizens exacted “justice for Trayvon.” As William J. Kelly and Laura Kelly note here, there’s been nary a peep from the Justice Brothers (H/T Rush Limbaugh):

For weeks, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and other prominent political figures have been ratcheting up the rhetoric in the case of Trayvon Martin. Martin is the 17-year-old black teenager who was shot by volunteer neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is of white and Peruvian descent.

Alton Harris, 18, is charged with a hate crime.
Critics have charged that Jackson and Sharpton have been using the Trayvon Martin case to fan the flames of U.S. racial discord and have intentionally focused their venom on the racial divisions between the white and black communities – Zimmerman’s mixed racial heritage notwithstanding. …But now there is a real-life casualty of the heated – some would say politically-motivated – rhetoric: a 19-year-old white hate crime victim from Chicago.

Alton Hayes, 18, of Oak Park, Illinois and a 15 year-old accomplice threatened the victim with a large tree branch and said, “Empty your pockets, white boy.”

Both of the assailants are black.

After pinning the victim’s arms to his sides, Hayes allegedly threw the 19-year-old to the ground, robbed him, and repeatedly punched him in the head and back.

Hayes told authorities he was so upset about the Trayvon Martin case he beat up the man because he was white. He has been charged with attempted robbery, aggravated battery, and a hate crime.

 

In an even more nauseating case, a mob of African-American low life losers attacked and savagely beat a man in Mobile, Alabama, also claiming that their actions were inspired by Trayvon Martin. While the savages and their apologists first asserted that the beating came after a dispute over a pickup basketball game, once again, it turns out that the assailants had allegedly been engaging in theft:

The sister of a white Mobile, Alabama man who suffered severe head trauma during a beating by approximately 20 black neighbors on Saturday spoke exclusively to The Daily Caller, saying that the incident started after one of her children witnessed some of the eventual assailants stealing an item from a neighbor’s porch — not, as some media outlets have reported, following a disagreement about a pick-up basketball game in the street.

Ashley Parker, whose brother Matthew Owens is clinging to life after the assault, said Owens was attacked after her 21-year-old daughter witnessed a group of African-American youth moving from yard to yard in the neighborhood and taking something that didn’t belong to them. She told Owens, who confronted the youths.

She “saw one of them take something off a porch,” Parker said, “and that is when Matthew approached them and told them they need to go home.”

The group returned with more than a dozen others, she said, beating Owens with bats, brass knuckles, a chair, a paint can and other objects. The attack left him bloodied and unconscious.

Gee, I wonder if Barack Obama has called Mr. Owens or his family, or whether he has suggested that if he had a son, he would look like one of the these racist scumbags who beat him almost to death.

Life in Barack Obama’s “post racial” America.

Things that piss me off about the Trayvon Martin case.

First of all, I’m sick of the lynch mob run by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the other professional race pimps. What do they want, a return to the bad old days of mob rule? Of all people, black people in the south should oppose that. And, it distresses me to see that the only time these leeches are bothered by young black males being murdered is when they are murdered by people other than young black males (about .00000000001% of the time.)

Secondly, I’m sick of the people who think George Zimmerman is the most innocent person in the world. “He was just defending himself”. “Trayvon Martin was beating him up” yammer yammer yammer. Zimmerman was punking Martin because Martin is black and looked like a burglar — to Zimmerman! The goofball then calls 911. Hey, where I come from you call 911 in an emergency, not because someone you think looks suspicious is walking down the street. For Cris’sake, is someone going to call 911 because they think I look dangerous when I’m walking my freakin’ pit bull at night? Is someone going to call 911 if I forget my poop bag? In my opinion, Zimmerman deserved to get his ass kicked, and who’s to say that Trayvon Martin didn’t think that he needed to defend himself against a total stranger who was following him around for no reason?

Third, I’m really sick and tired of shoddy police work. Were Martin and Zimmerman tested for the presence of drugs or alchohol? Was Martin tested for powder burns, which, if not present, would disprove Zimmerman’s version of events. Also, Zimmerman is reported to have said that Trayvon Martin was grabbing for his gun. Was the gun tested for Martin’s prints? Had Zimmerman pulled the gun out before Martin grabbed for it? And by the way. have the voices on the 911 tapes been analyzed? I heard two different tapes with two different voices, and they were distinctly different. (I also read of a witness who also said she heard two different voices.) To me, it seems like the police basically did a half-assed job. When lethal force is used, the survivor’s version of events MUST ALWAYS BE VIEWED WITH SKEPTICISM! Otherwise, we are giving people a license to kill (just make sure there are no witnesses to contradict your testimony.

Now that a special prosecutor has been appointed, and a real investigation is being carried out. we should be able to get as close to the truth as is humanly possible. I don’t know what the truth is, but I do know this: Trayvon Martin is dead because some idiot shot him. And the idiot’s role should not be disregarded. Perhaps George Zimmerman really is torn apart with sadness and remorse over this incident, in which case he should be pitied, but certainly not lionized.