With his legal career hanging by a very slender thread, controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson is apparently considering a move into politics.
The news comes by way of a lengthy Thompson appearance on The Justice Hour, a local Florida radio program. Although Thompson was a guest on Memorial Day, we didn't have a chance to catch the show until this morning. While his appearance is mostly standard-issue Thompson rhetoric, the embattled attorney did let slip one startling piece of information.
Thompson, a Republican, is eyeing a run for the Florida legislature. He made the revelation while answering a caller's question about immigration. Here's the quote:
...My hope is that maybe one day I'll be in that legislature and sponsor and get through certain things we can do at the state level about [immigration]...
If he does run for the Florida legislature, it won't be Thompson's first political campaign. In 1988, Thompson ran unsuccessfully against Janet Reno for the position of Dade County State Attorney.
In 2006 Thompson announced that he would run against Judge Ronald Friedman, following Friedman's dismissal of Thompson's attempt to have controversial Rockstar game Bully declared a public nuisance. The run against Friedman never came about, however.
On the other hand, Thompson seemed to nix any political aspirations in a 2005 interview with GamePolitics:
I ran against Janet Reno in 1988. If I ever ran for anything again I'd need a divorce lawyer. I got that out of my system...




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YES.
Now I don't have to get off my ass for the important shit anymore!
Whats next, ordering pizza from Xbox live?
Wait... I think that sounds like a good idea.
But I think voting should MAKE you get off your ass, and see outside or a second while you go vote. I mean, your picking the president of the United States of America for God's Sake... least you can do is drive down there and punch out a card.
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Re: Jack Thompson Has Political Aspirations
I'm all for freedom of ttnet vitamin speech and allowing rent a car game makers to put whatever they want in games, but there's one thing about this app that has me scratching my head. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from araç kiralama the previous article araba kiralama on this I gathered that players can use Google maps in-game to find the other (real-life?) dealers in their area. If this is the case, has travesti anyone considered what's stopping someone from using this app to actually move drugs between hands for reals?
But majority araba kiralama of their outrage araç kiralama stems from what it could DO TO children, not the content itself. Talk to one of these people and you'll find they don't think any books kiralık araba should be banned from children. Mention American Psycho and they talk about kiralık araç the redeeming value of using imagination to construct a story. Reading, no matter what the content, is largely viewed as a consequenceless activity for people of any age. The reason why I mention American Psycho is because of the content itself. Gaming never has and likely never will have any scenes where someone has sex with a severed head. Not gonna happen. Yet despite this, they'll fight tooth and nail to protect their children from two boys kissing in Bully but whatever they read is harmless... yeah.
The entire arguement is kiralık oto based upon a social normality inflicted by luddites who can't figure out the controls for Halo so it's frightening and terrifying and obviously the cause of youth violence on the rise even though, in reality, it's in decline (which is actually a HUGE suprise given minibüs kiralama the economies status). In a perfect world, we would have parents that actually parent. The idea of sales restrictions on media on oto kiralama any form to accomidate parental unwillingness to get involved with their child's life is the real problem to me. Here I am, 32 years old, and being held up at a self-scan rent a car needing to show ID before I can buy a $10 M rated game all because Soccer Momthra can't be bothered to look at the crap Billy Genericallystupidson does in his free time. It's too hard for her, so I have to suffer?
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Political message on radio and TV in the district Jack Thompson want to run in:
[Zooming in on picture of Jack in Hawaiian shirt] Jack Thompson wants to represent YOU to the state legislature. He tells you that he wants to take a hard stand on immigration issues. What he WON'T tell you is that in 2008 he was found guilty of 27 misconduct charges, including: [various angle pans of document stacks, waving fingers, smoking fax machines]
Is this really the kind of person you want representing your interests?
[White on black text "WTF Jack?" fades in] This message paid for by the Jack Thompson Is A Douchebag Foundation.
"I'm Jack Thompson's competition, and I approve this message, because Jack Thompson is a douchebag."
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I would almost feel compelled to move to florida just to vote against him.
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Oooh, called it! We all saw this coming! JT was gunning for a political run, damn bastard.
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The problem with politics is that it is a career often taken by those who are good for nothing else.
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Personally i think this is a stupid move for jack. He has spent a lifetime pissing people off, and not making many friends in the process. He has basically put himself in a position where he needs people to support him, and he just spent a decade insulting them. Ohwell, let him waiste his money
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Personally i think this is a stupid move for jack. He has spent a lifetime pissing people off, and not making many friends in the process. He has basically put himself in a position where he needs people to support him, and he just spent a decade insulting them. Ohwell, let him waiste his money
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He won't run - He's just blowing smoke. I know it's kind of vogue to hate Jack Thompson in gamer culture right now, however, I don't think he's so completely divorced from reality that he doesn't understand what running for high office would be like. More to the point, who would finance him? Would you contribute to the thompson campaign? Not fricking me. I would imagine only pretty hardcore conservative christians would touch him, and the fact that even NIMF dissaovwed him, well, where's he gonna get the money to run?
Politics doesn't quite add up. I tell you, I do see some activism in his future, but more like the PAC kind. I see him forming his own or joining some sort of activist group; and working his ends that way. That way all he has to do is find some gullible/misinformed people, and that's not terribly hard to do.
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The PTC may support him, and his Church, but that's about it I would have thought.
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Someone get Ms. Reno on the line. She needs to see this. In fact, more than that. Get everyone who is not here that has a bone to pick with JT on the line. They need to see this.
I AM A LOST SOUL, CONDEMNED TO HAUNT THE DREAMS OF JOHN BRUCE "JACK" THOMPSON UNTIL HIS CRUSADE AGAINST VIDEO GAMES ENDS. SOMEONE, PLEASE! END MY SUFFERING!
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I AM DOOMED TO HAUNT JACK THOMPSON'S DREAMS UNTIL HIS CRUSADE AGAINST VIDEO GAMES ENDS.
Re: Jack Thompson Has Political Aspirations
Uh.. No. Just.. No.
Good intentions, piss poor execution (watch someone take that as in a murder type execution, and not the actual following of instructions), and an abrasive personality. No.
---- There is a limit for both politicians against video games, and video games against politicians. http://www.goteamretard.com
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I can see the results now...
Jack: 2% (Idiots, people who never payed attention, the whole 3 people who actually support Jack)
Opponent: 98% (Everyone else)
I hope he runs. I need a good laugh.
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Jack: 2% (Idiots, people who never payed attention, the whole 3 people who actually support Jack)
But I thought it was illegal to vote more then once, especially so for yourself...
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I know 'First!' is frowned upon here, but what about 'thread over!' ... either way, I don't think there'll be a funnier comment in this thread. :P
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Somehow i think this is just normal JT hot air just like when he said that he would run against judge Friedman
Hey GP any fallout against jack for saying he would run against judge Friedman then not following through?
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I doubt there will be any direct comeback for that, however, I also don't doubt that it has been noticed that, on two occasions, Thompson has been bought before a judge for disciplinary measures, and on two occasions, rather than defend himself, he's tried to attack the judge.
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One thing I'm certain he'd do is pull a Star Locke and try a 100% tax on video games.
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I'd love to see him try. Of course he'll soon know this can only result in EPIC FAIL!
Chance of Jack getting elected:-67%.If he's lucky.REALLY lucky.
Yep, I'm starting to look at this as a good thing. The chances of Hell freezing over, pigs flying, and Freddy Mercury coming back from the dead and reuniting with Queen and singing "Seven Seas of Rye" on my front lawn (all on the same day) are higher than him actually winning, so all that would happen is the big reveal to the world (as opposed to just us) that he's a dipshit, making him even less viable of a threat than he already was. Let's get him outa the way and start looking at Leeland Yee as the next (well, technically first) opponent that we have to wreck.
-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large.
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Don't worry everybody. If he runs, it will get out that he's a disrraced lawyer and was disbarred and he won't have a chance in hell of winning.
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Good god, just reading the synopsis at the radio show's website makes me vomit in my mouth. I'm convinced the sun down in South Florida has messed up a load of minds down there. ANY licensed attorney with half a brain can recognize that JT so deserves to be disbarred that it's hardly up for any discussion. All one has to do is follow the links the radio show supplies here and there to find out what kind of people you are dealing with; right-wing conspiracy theory nutbags. Not much different than the left-wing liberal "vast right-wing conspiracy" nutbags, only the former thinks that GOD is on their side, which makes them frankly more dangerous. You can't reason with a fanatic.
I say "RUN JACKIE RUN"! The entertainment value would be off the charts.
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His opponent with have a truckload of Jack's antics to work with so I'm not worried. This should be good! :)
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Perhaps someone here who lives in florida can run against him. Be sure to wear a game tshirt to every debate or press appearance, jacky boy will revert to his true form, a frothing delusional apoplectic maniac & victory will be easier than beating COD4
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If he ever did decice to run for office, as funny as it would be, we'd have to rally the gamers together to make sure that he's stopped. It would be a shame if we were laughing so hard, that we missed the vote, while the crazy christian vote pushed him through like a steaming turd.
Jack Thompson will NEVER be elected
all anyone who runs against him has to do is show how much money he's costed states like illinois, or louisiana with his "constitutional bills".
I can see it now.
Jack thompson costed this (stateA) more than x dollars
Jack thompson costed (stateB) this many dollars.
would you elect someone who makes people pay?
Re: Jack Thompson will NEVER be elected
He'd likely initiate a tax hike in advance jsut ot fund his crusade.
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He's going to work on immigration issues??? What's he going to do about it, blame video-game violence on Mexicans?
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Well, we got to look at the good in everything.... When speaking about Thompson, you got to look at his consistency. He'll fail and fail at something until he can't fail no more. He's failed at being a lawyer until he is no longer one... He didn't fail THAT bad at a politician, so that's his new career path to burn to smithereens!!! Next stop, retail!
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Actually, it might be good for him to run for an office of some sort of office. He'd lose, but not before it was revealed to the world what we've all known forever: He's a retard.
-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large.
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I wonder if he'd have slashes between all of his words in all of his legislation?
-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large.
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Anyone going against him should easily win. If he gets a political office my faith in humanity would sink even lower which would be something considering it sunk rock bottom with Bushie.
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If he didn't get obliterated, I would die of shock.
-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large.
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Givign his legal aspirations, I"m not worried at all. Besides, all that needs ot be doen is to tend his opponent the Wiki page, or copy all of his comments form here and mail them
-kurisu7885
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I live in Florida and we cannot vote to save our lives. Every election, something happens that makes the votes screwey. So, I get the feeling that Jack could possibly win. But, I swear, if Jack does get elected, I am moving to New Hampshire earlier than planned. Not because I believe suddenly he'll be able to impose his morals with no resistance, but because he'll be able to try.
Growing older doesn't have to mean giving up what makes you. - http://himynameistyler.com
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Well, it is America's wang after all.
Again, all that needs saying:
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAH, yeah right!
Normally I don't like political mud slinging campaigns, but with his colorful past(and present) I would sooo look forward to this one!
Ok one addition:
Oooh, I didn't even think of Jack doing some mud slinging, if it is anything like with Janet Reno we can probably expect more laughs!
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You know. I'm not usually the type to actually break into laughter over stuff I read on the internet...
Guess what I just did!
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Ha! He'll run for the "Jesus loves babies and hates vidja games cause theys the devil" party.
-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large.
Re: Jack Thompson Has Political Aspirations
The U.S. already has one political dumbass by the name of George W. Bush. They don't need another by the name of Jack Thompson.
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Hey, GP. You misspelled "Delusions." It doesn't start with an A.
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lmao thats a good one
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If he does try and run for a political post, it will be time for everyone to get the word out of his behaviour to the voters.
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People, this is FLORIDA. SOUTH FLORIDA. Much, much wierder shit has happened in the government there. IF he runs don't totally count him out. Threre's a substantial amount of the ''jesus loves me'' crowd down there, and they are just as ignorant as he is.
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He'd probably more influence on the religious crowd by becoming more active within his own church. IIRC, he's a deacon and possbily even an ordained elder.
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Somehow, I think his restraining order for stalking gay DJ may be a little too much even the Florida public.
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Hasn't he already demolished his own chances at being elected with his recent problems with the Florida Bar? I can't imagine anyone being stupid enough to vote for him, especially after how many enemies he's made in the court systems. Wouldn't even have to resort to mudslinging, just talk about what he's actually done. Even if he did succeed, he wouldn't be able to accomplish anything, again, because of how many enemies he's made.
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Sadly his quote is true...
"A country that doesn't enforce it's borders ceases to be a country."