Ohio Ballclub Cancels ‘Traficant Release Night’ | Talking Points Memo

Take me out to the corrupt ex-Rep. Traficant prison release party?

Alas, no — a planned “Traficant Release Night” was canceled today by the Single-A Cleveland Indians affiliate in the disgraced former congressman’s district after angry residents complained, the AP reports.The Mahoning Valley Scrappers in Youngstown, Ohio, planned the event for Sept. 2, when James Traficant, the Republican Democratic congressmen who was sent to prison in 2002 after being convicted of corruption, is due to finally come home.


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