Most members of Congress, once they lose an election, cushion the blow with a move to the private sector so they can profit from the contacts they made in office. But not Steve Driehaus, the former Democratic congressman from Ohio. When he got the boot, he joined the Peace Corps and decamped to Swaziland.
But that wasn’t all. Driehaus did something that might be viewed as even more impractical. He sued a special interest group in federal district court, accusing it of spreading falsehoods that helped sink his reelection last year.
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