UPDATE | Jim Traficant in 'very critical' condition after accident at farm

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25. I always like what he said when people said that pre Roe vs Wade Abortions did not happen,.

His retort was in the 1960s he had been Sheriff deputy of the County Youngstown was the major City in and many a time he sat beside a young girl who was bleeding to death do to a botched illegal abortion. He said that every time he voted AGAINST a restriction on Abortion, even while pointing out he was a church going Catholic.

Yes, he was and is a Social Conservative (do NOT expect him to come out for Gay Rights etc), but he was as pro Social Security, Pro Union etc as you can be to make his a economic progressive on those issues. Thus in many ways he reflected the Democratic Party of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.

His opposition to immigration had more to do with keeping wages UP then anything else. Immigration has always been used as a way to REDUCE wages and is one of the reason the top 1% had obtain almost all of the benefits of productivity since 1970, as oppose to prior to that date when such increase in productively was more evenly spread out among all classes of society.

People may call him a bad Democrat, but he represented his district who were more concerned about their ECONOMIC well being then any other fact. These he was a Economic Progressive and a Social Conservative that supported abortion rights.