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(114,904 posts) Thu Nov 29, 2012, 03:05 PM Nov 2012

Ugh: Mel Reynolds is running for Jesse Jackson Jr's Congressional seat.

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Reynolds, 60, did acknowledge that he has made "mistakes" in the past, but downplayed his past convictions -- which include criminal sexual assault, child pornography, wire fraud and lying to the Federal Election Commission -- as happening "almost 18, 20 years ago," the Tribune reports. His sentences were commuted by then-President Bill Clinton.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/jesse-jackson-jr-special-_n_2205974.html?utm_hp_ref=chicago
convicted sexual predator.

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