Kristen McQueary reports that Mel Reynolds is contemplating a comeback by challenging Jackson Jr. for his Congressional seat.
Reynolds is still angry that he was mistreated and held to a higher standard because he is black when he was investigated and convicted for sleeping with a teenage campaign worker.
He is right, he was treated far worse because he wasn’t uber-connected as Rostenkowski was, but that only means that Rosty shouldn’t be showered with praise, not that Reynolds deserves better treatment. He slept with a teenage campaign worker. Regardless of whether prosecutors snicker about such crimes or not, it was wrong.