Jail time complicates man's run for Congress

[The Straight Story]

Jail time complicates man's run for Congress

For a second time, Andrew G. Zukowski is campaigning for Congress from behind bars.

The unemployed engineer was picked up by Franklin County deputy sheriffs over the weekend for violating a protection order. He pleaded not guilty yesterday and remained in jail on $50,000 bond.

Zukowski, 64, is challenging Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Genoa Township, for the GOP nomination in the 12th Congressional District.

When the two squared off in 2000, Zukowski was jailed for assaulting a Gahanna man with a metal pipe. The man and his family purchased a home Zukowski had lost through foreclosure.

The family has since moved but had a protection order barring Zukowski from coming near them. He was arrested Saturday when he showed up at the family's new home.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/20/copy/jail-time-complicates-mans-run-for-congress.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[CreekDog]

1. Shouldn't it?

:shrug:

[Turbineguy]

2. Republicans should be allowed to run and govern from jail.

The standards for Democrats should be higher. And they can be.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. A would-be Congressman who's already in jail? What a go-getter!

There's a man who just can't wait for success. :D