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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongressman Stockman Threatens To Arrest Anyone Who Publishes His Mugshot, So Here’s His Mugshot
n 1977, Texas Republican congressman Steve Stockman spent a weekend in jail for traffic violations. While he was in the pokey, his jailers discovered the twenty-year-old future politician had Valium in his underpants, because where else would you keep it? Since Stockman was arrested, he has a mugshot, and he is very perturbed that said mugshot is winging around the internet, thanks to a PAC. -
According to Donny Ferguson, unnamed Michigan officials have told Stockman that this is all a big mistake. Ferguson wrote on Stockmans campaign website:
Michigans 43rd Judicial District Clerk stated Stockman was never convicted of any charge and the documents were supposed to have been destroyed in 1978. Another Michigan official has advised Stockman he has grounds to file criminal complaints against any person or media organization that published the documents.
No one from the Stockman campaign has told any media outlet who these Michigan officials are, but Im sure theyre real (wink wink). The Texas Tribune published an article on Stockmans arrest, with the mugshot, so obviously, those poor bastards are headed to a gulag somewhere
well, cold. Whats interesting is that Stockman himself spoke about his arrest during an interview in 1995.
- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/congressman-steve-stockman-threatens-arrest-anyone-publishes-mugshot-heres-mugshot/#sthash.OoXmx7Se.dpuf
Baitball Blogger
(46,787 posts)except for the dead eyes and the no-sign-of-a-future expression.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)His girlfriend put Valium in his underwear - I am still giggling...He probably has affluenza.
Lochloosa
(16,086 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)his forehead.
SunSeeker
(51,827 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)That he has been so busy and so active and so diversified. And then I realized many are probably this way. Anyway, thanks and keep this alive. A lot of P.O. boxes.
jsr
(7,712 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)would be a "red flag" for money laundering and be getting a lot of L/E attention ... if Stockman's named had ended in a "I", "A", or an "O"vowel or if he were a little "darker."
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)gerogie2
(450 posts)Bloggers everywhere are hiding in fear of their arrest that is sure to come as soon as the first amendment is repealed. LOL!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I tell ya!!!
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Whatever you do, don't put it in your signature line.
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dballance
(5,756 posts)If the idiot had just said "Yep, I'm human and I made a mistake in my youth that I've learned from. And, that really is a bad picture isn't it?" It would have faded away from the news cycle and probably not gotten national attention.
But no, must suppress, must hide mistakes, must threaten people with lawsuits that have no chance in hell.
An article in a paper, internet news site, on a TV program or blog that simply states the accurate facts and publishes a public record - his mugshot - has nothing to worry about.
onethatcares
(16,215 posts)to have their lives ruined. If you got a little dinero, you are home free.
Is this a great country? Or what?
tooeyeten
(1,074 posts)Has police and prosecutor powers? When did that hsppen?
bkanderson76
(266 posts)spanone
(135,958 posts)secondvariety
(1,245 posts)What a dope.
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Who does that tool think he is, trying to suppress public documents like that?
marble falls
(57,657 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)supporters), I'm guessing he's still downing Valiums like Tic-Tacs!
K&R.