Talk:James Traficant

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Contents 1 Second (?) person to run for federal office from prison 2 Infobox 3 Artwork 4 RICO Acquittal

[edit] Second (?) person to run for federal office from prison

I don't think it's accurate to say that Mr. Traficant was the second person ever to run for federal office while in prison. One example that comes to mind is a fellow named J. John Gordon who ran for president in 1976 and eventually filed a lawsuit claiming that the election had been effectively stolen from him: Gordon v. Secretary of State of New Jersey, 460 F. Supp. 1026 (D. N.J. 1978), republished at http://members.aol.com/schwenkler/wcc/gordon.htm An argument could be made that Gordon didn't really run for president, but the better view is probably that he was a candidate. Anyway, I'm willing to bet there have been quite a few others as well. For example, Leonard Peltier has run for President from prison (I believe he was nominated by the Peace & Freedom Party in 2004, but I think---we need to check whether---he was running for federal office before then, at least as the subject of a "Draft Peltier" effort, perhaps mostly as a write-in candidate), and I'm imagining (not clearly enough to call it remembering) that Mumia (while on Death Row) might even have been on the ballot (for Vice-President?) in some states.

Eugene Debs is of course the most famous presidential candidate to run while in prison, but I'm not sure he was the FIRST federal candidate to run from prison.

I believe that Lyndon LaRouche was running for president in 1992 during the time he was in prison, but this should also be checked.160.253.0.248 16:57, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

David Duke ran for Congress from prison, also.

[edit] Infobox

The James Traficant infobox seems to be screwed up. I've tried fixing it, to no avail. Micahbrwn 01:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Artwork

We need a picture of this guy's prison artwork, it's actually pretty good. 141.213.141.25 15:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Most likely he retains the copyright and I'm not sure posting it here would qualify as fair use. Jonathunder 17:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RICO Acquittal

I'm not sure about this, but didn't Giacomo DiNorscio successfully defend himself from RICO charges?