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Mel Reynolds

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U.S. Congressman

The Resume

    (January 8, 1952- )
    Representative from Illinois (1993-95)
    Democrat

Why he might be annoying:

    He resigned from the House after being convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, solicitation of child pornography and obstruction of justice.
    He was taped describing sexual encounters with a 16-year-old campaign worker he called his 'sweet young pussy.'
    He claimed he was the victim of racism, saying, 'When they shackle me, like they shackled my slave ancestors, and take me off to jail, nobody in this room will see me crawl.'
    While serving five years for that crime, he was convicted on fifteen unrelated charges of bank fraud, diverting campaign funds for personal use and lying to the Federal Elections Commission (1997).
    After his release, Reynolds was hired by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition as a counselor to try to decrease the number of young African-Americans going to prison (2001).
    He was ordered to move because of an Illinois law preventing convicted sex offenders from living within 500 feet of an elementary school (2005).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a Rhodes Scholar.
    He admitted to engaging in phone sex with the 16-year-old, but denied they had had sexual intercourse.
    He was overwhelmingly defeated in his attempt to regain his old seat by campaigning against Jesse Jackson, Jr. (2004)

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 122 Votes: 60.66% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 73 Votes: 42.47% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 38 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1103 Votes: 81.32% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 199 Votes: 80.40% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 1413 Votes: 52.87% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 2173 Votes: 65.30% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 5258 Votes: 69.32% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 666 Votes: 81.08% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 933 Votes: 87.89% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 258 Votes: 68.22% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 1195 Votes: 74.56% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 1012 Votes: 60.87% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 1299 Votes: 77.83% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 1011 Votes: 77.55% Annoying