VOTE 2010: Pantano makes Top Ten List of” Most Terrifying Would-Be Congressman”

THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE NC DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

RALEIGH, NC (NEWS RELEASE) – A few short days before Halloween, Salon.com has recognized 7th Congressional District Republican nominee Ilario Pantano as one of the Top Ten “most terrifying would-be Congressman.”

“Ilario Pantano should terrify voters in the 7th District for any number of reasons, from his questionable past to his support for privatizing Social Security and rewarding companies for shipping jobs overseas,” said Andrew Whalen, Executive Director of the North Carolina Democratic Party.

View the slide show – http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/25/under_radar_candidates/slideshow.html

Pantano is joined on the list by GOP candidates with questionable backgrounds that include allegations of sexual harassment and dry-firing a gun near an ex-wife.

The entire article can be seen below.

The 10 most terrifying would-be congressmen

Slide show: One may have dry-fired a gun near his ex-wife, another may have gotten away with murder

By Justin Elliott and Mark Benjamin, Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/25/under_radar_candidates/index.html

The thing about wave elections is that you never know until the very end who will wash ashore.

That the Republicans will gain seats — probably a lot of seats — in next week’s midterms is not in dispute. But don’t be fooled by their claims of a looming mandate: They really haven’t done anything to deserve it. The GOP is simply benefiting from the same rule of politics that boosted Democrats in 2008 and 2006: When voters are angry, they take it out on the party that runs Washington.

In House districts across the country, many voters will head to the polls next week intent on voting for the Republican candidate, even if they don’t know a thing about him or her — a perfect opportunity, in other words, for GOP candidates with checkered backgrounds to slip undetected into the halls of Congress.

We’ve looked around and identified the 10 Republican House candidates with the most bizarre, unnerving and downright alarming baggage who just might sneak through next week. So when someone expresses bafflement that, say, a guy who allegedly dry-fired a gun outside his estranged wife’s bedroom could become a member of Congress — well, don’t say you weren’t warned.