Who is Ken Lanci?

You may have heard about the fan suing the NFL over the lockout in a seemingly frivolous, attention-grabbing lawsuit. It turns out he's also a (so far) failed politician who spent at least $400,000 on an independent campaign to become Cuyahoga County executive. (Lanci finished third with 12% of the vote.) the ITalian-American, self-made millionaire in the printing industry takes umbrage at the notion that he has ties to organized crime, even though his brother was convicted for his part in a mob bombing and he has ties to several questionable individuals. Though he claims to be an independent and has donated to some Democrats, the website Plunderbund notes that Lanci donated $10,000 to the Mcain/Palin campaign in its waning days.

The dates on Lanci’s McCain-Palin contributions, 10/22/2008, and 11/03/2008, are telling. If you’re willing to flush $10,000 down the McCain Palin toilet in the last weeks before the election, after all of this, that makes you a borderline teabagger.