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Ohio Congressman Bob Ney (R) has announced he will not seek reelection this fall. Ney was one of Abramoff's insiders, and by all accounts it is only a matter of time until the indictments come down. One by one, they fall...

UPDATE: How bad is Ney's replacement? As hard as this might be to believe, she may actually be worse than Ney. Here's an account of the campaign she had been running (up until now) for the Ohio Senate:

This year's most extraordinary example of slimeball politics involves the former hostage Terry Anderson, who is running for state senator in a district in southern Ohio. His opponent, Joy Padgett, a longtime Republican functionary, links him and Dan Rather as two liberal journalists who don't get their facts straight, going on to show a photo of Anderson shaking hands with a Middle Eastern–looking man and accusing him of being soft on terrorism.

Anderson, a former chief Mideast correspondent for the Associated Press, was taken hostage by Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1985 and held until 1991. Following his release, he returned to Lebanon with a CNN crew and searched out his former captors. A photo from that trip is the one now being used by Padgett[...]

"The picture," he continued, referring to the photo of himself shaking hands with the Hezbollah official, "is one of the guys who kidnapped me, who held me for seven years, who chained me and blindfolded me. I went back to Lebanon with a CNN news crew and looked him up and put him on camera and asked him, Why did you do this?

"She now says I am an apologist for terrorists.That's sheer nonsense. It's offensive. I've just about had enough."

Hat tip: Obsidian Wings