Michael Grimm, the guido Congressman from Staten Island who threatened to beat up a reporter and who has been indicted for tax fraud, won re-election.
I think my mother voted for him, which is surprising because she used to be a Democrat.
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Lion of the Blogosphere 
SI voters know Grimm is one of their own. a juicehead guido (quoting jersey shore).
lion of the lionosphere
November 4, 2014 at 11:37 PM
He actually doesn’t look like a guido at all. Lion’s bias of SI residents has been over the top.
JS
November 5, 2014 at 11:21 AM
We just elected Edwin Edwards (D), convicted felon, to represent the Louisiana 6th congressional district.
Unspeakable_Lulz
November 4, 2014 at 11:46 PM
Convicted felon, longest serving Governor of LA and under investigation countless times. But his real claim to fame is 1) though he’s corrupt and gambles like crazy he doesn’t drink (seems odd); and 2) he married a woman 51 years his junior.
Curle
November 5, 2014 at 12:22 AM
No you didn’t. Edwards got 30% of the vote, but the next four candidates were all Republicans and combined earned almost 60% of the vote. So Edwards faces very steep odds in the runoff which he needs to win to actually become your Rep.
ImmoralMrTeas
November 5, 2014 at 1:02 AM
Actually, they’re going to a runoff
Homer_Jordan
November 5, 2014 at 7:52 AM
About average for the U.S. Congress
Fitzgerald
November 4, 2014 at 11:55 PM
Threatening to beat up a reporter is the single best reason I’ve ever seen to vote for somebody.
peterike2
November 5, 2014 at 12:03 AM
Why am I not surprised that with all the important political news there is tonight Lion’s first post-election post would be about a “guido congressman?” But that’s LOTB for you – “all guido, all the time.. Lion could spot a guido in Tanzania. I used to find this annoying. But now I find it amusing.
Rep. Grimm had a form letter written by his Mom mailed out to voters in his district. In it she tells of how wonderful her son is. The purpose of this letter is for you to see her Italian last name so that IA voters could be reminded that Grimm is one of their own even if he is a corrupt SOB. I have to confess I played the ethnic card myself once. I wrote a letter to a former colleague I barely knew requesting a meeting with him for professional purposes. I made up stationery with my mother’s maiden name as my middle name. after he had turned down my initial request for a meeting. It worked. But I still feel kind of shallow for having done it. I know the ethnic factor is what did it because at the end of the conversation he said that people like us “need to stick together.”
Maryk
November 5, 2014 at 12:06 AM
…people like us “need to stick together.”
Irish?
E. Rekshun
November 5, 2014 at 11:53 AM
No, Italian. I would be very surprised to hear any Irish-American talking about the need for ethnic solidarity.
Maryk
November 5, 2014 at 12:42 PM
No longer atomized. It’s the way of the future.
Glengarry
November 5, 2014 at 6:52 PM
This election was absolutely hilarious. Democrats even lost Maryland’s governorship by running a mulatto Obama clone.
Scott Brown’s defeat was the only disappointment. However, if Brown had to lose, I’m glad that pro-amnesty lobbyist, Gillespie, was defeated in Virginia.
The Undiscovered Jew
November 5, 2014 at 12:38 AM
I voted for him (Hogan), the very first night of early voting in what was supposed to be a Brown stronghold (Randallstown MD). I’m still surprised he won though, the pissed-off MoCo Dems must have stayed home.
Gambrinus Glubbe
November 5, 2014 at 4:11 PM
I still laugh thinking about Maryland’s race.
The Undiscovered Jew
November 5, 2014 at 7:02 PM
Scott Walker will be the Republican nominee if he flip flops on amnesty and becomes a restrictionist. If he doesn’t, he’s opening himself up to being beaten from the right on that issue. The only issue where he’s vulnerable.
The Undiscovered Jew
November 5, 2014 at 12:46 AM
Well, it looks like all the liberal pundits after the 2008/12 elections were right… the Republican party is finished. *snicker*
destructure
November 5, 2014 at 1:29 AM
I saw he was re-elected around midnight and thought: “LION!!!!!”
I think my mother voted for him, which is surprising because she used to be a Democrat.
The Washington Post story about Larry Hagan having a chance to score an upset GOP win in the MD Gubernatorial race from this past weekend explicitly mentioned his appeal to white men, and the fact he didn’t *turn-off* all the single ladies, and non-whites.
This shows a “pro-white,” candidate even has appeal among left-of-center Democrats. I wonder whether the GOP leadership will waste this opportunity (like how Rand Paul is running against voter id, despite it’s popularity across the ideological spectrum), or will they just ignore it because they’re stupid (see refusing to fund Cuccinelli for VA Governor because he’s pro Tea Party, and believing DNC/MSM talking points that Gillespie was doomed in VA Senate race, so they pulled support http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/shad-plank-blog/dp-gillespie-puts-435000-of-his-own-money-into-campaign-20141023-post.html).
aki (@DSGNTD_PLYR)
November 5, 2014 at 9:30 AM
Game Theory: Maybe your mom likes the bad boys?
DiverCity
November 5, 2014 at 9:36 AM
In the Staten island advance endorsement of Grimm, they mentioned they preferred a womanizing, corrupt, violent thug over a guy who was clueless and didn’t know Staten island at all ( recchia, his opponent). Basically, “he’s OUR violent thug”.
Grimms for “immigration reform” so I wouldnt vote for him. Why is he for amnesty? Italians don’t like it.
Jack
November 5, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Sometimes I think Republicans are so naive that they really believe “immigration reform” will mean border control. Of course, the Dems have been selling this lie since the 80s Reagan amnesty. Remember, the deal at the time was that we’d legalize the peasantry and THEN we’ll shut the border, for reals man! It was a lie from the get-go, but Republicans acted in good faith, stupidly. Maybe many of the current R knuckleheads really think “reform” means “fixing the problem” rather than “making 20 million new Democrat voters and doing nothing to fix the problem.”
peterike2
November 5, 2014 at 12:17 PM
It’s a bit like some libertarian economists who want the manifesto point of open borders to be implemented first of all. Yeah, why not do some of the other points, like get rid of the welfare state, first and then we can talk about it?
Glengarry
November 5, 2014 at 6:55 PM
Grimm looks like a fugly Asian guy.
JS
November 5, 2014 at 11:19 AM
US Senate: 52-R. 45-D. US House: 244-R. 177-D. Governors: 31-R. 16-D.
We’ll soon be hearing “…in the spirit of bi-partisianship…reach out across the aisle…blah, blah, blah”
Government spending will continue to grow. The military will continue to grow. Military excursions overseas will continue unabated. Exactly zero obama rules & regulations will be repealed.
The stupid party will screw up this opportunity.
E. Rekshun
November 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Oh, and massive legal and illegal immigration will continue to flow, and may even be made easier.
E. Rekshun
November 5, 2014 at 12:05 PM
It’s time for a grand bargain.
Glengarry
November 5, 2014 at 6:57 PM
Guidos are alpha. Blacks are alpha too. IN the world of Alpha males guidos are preferable to blacks.
toos is god
November 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM
Grimm was married to an ugly Asian woman – which means BETA.
JS
November 5, 2014 at 1:15 PM
Guidos should be sent back to Sicily and southern italy. Their northern italian cousins however would want nothing to do with them. They never have wanted them around in the first place historically.
uatu
November 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM
Grimm? That’s a German name. There are German guidos now?
Graf von Jung
November 5, 2014 at 2:02 PM
His mother is Italian, and he went to Catholic school.
Lion of the Blogosphere
November 5, 2014 at 2:17 PM
There are plenty of German Catholics, even here in New York.
And the fact that he went to a Catholic high school doesn’t automatically make him a guido — there are plenty of non-guido Catholic schools in the area (Regis, Chaminade, Delbarton, etc.).
Renault
November 5, 2014 at 3:28 PM
Catholic Schools are prole and high prole being the better ones.
JS
November 6, 2014 at 10:18 AM
There are a lot of Italian-Germanic-Irish mongrels in the NYC area.
JS
November 6, 2014 at 10:19 AM
There was a sizable German Catholic immigrant community in New York City, although not as big or prominent as Italian or Irish Catholics.
Grimm’s father is Irish/German Catholic and mother is Italian.
Aaron
November 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM
Americans love bullies, at least most of those who don’t want to be seen as ineffectual “liberals” who harp on “empathy” and “compassion”.
Saskatoon Sammy
November 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM