Some sad news to report:

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio –

CLEVELAND (AP) – James Traficant, the colorful Ohio politician whose conviction for taking bribes and kickbacks made him only the second person to be expelled from Congress since the Civil War, died Saturday. He was 73.

Traficant was seriously injured Tuesday after a vintage tractor flipped over on him as he tried to park it inside a barn on the family farm near Youngstown. He died four days later in a Youngstown hospital, said Dave Betras, chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party.

via James A. Traficant, Jr. – Hero to the common man, dead at age 73 | Politics.

This is a huge loss to the freedom movement. Apparently, Traficant was trying to park a tractor in his barn, when it flipped over trapping and crushing him. A sad ending to a man, who fought against the Government and paid a price for it.

(Cross-Posted from Beforeitsnews.com)

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