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liberal N proud

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Sun Nov 24, 2019, 09:20 PM Nov 2019

Cleveland.com: Jim Jordan was imposed on us for egregiously partisan reasons. Now he's afflicting...

Jim Jordan was imposed on us for egregiously partisan reasons. Now he’s afflicting the nation.

When Jordan slithers out from under his rock each morning, dons a shirt and tie - sans the jacket, lest he be mistaken for Joe McCarthy - his life’s work is to besmirch everything America stands for in service of Donald Trump

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2019/11/jim-jordan-was-imposed-on-us-for-egregiously-partisan-reasons-now-hes-afflicting-the-nation.html

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Cleveland.com: Jim Jordan was imposed on us for egregiously partisan reasons. Now he's afflicting... (Original Post) liberal N proud Nov 2019 OP
K&R UTUSN Nov 2019 #1
"In the locker room, or in the hearing room, I just never see or hear anything that concerns me!" struggle4progress Nov 2019 #2
Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Devin Nunes Initech Nov 2019 #3
It's critical of Dem gerrymandering too: NCLefty Nov 2019 #4
What kind of an idiot would vote for such a worthless, slimy toad? oasis Nov 2019 #5

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
4. It's critical of Dem gerrymandering too:
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 06:00 AM
Nov 2019
Of all the regions in all the states in all the country, Jim Jordan got dragged into ours. There was no good reason to punish Greater Cleveland by making the person who’s now the second most contemptible human being in the entire U.S. government part of the region’s delegation to Congress. Worse yet, the betrayal was bipartisan.

When Ohio’s political and legislative leaders were drawing new congressional boundaries prior to the 2012 election, Democrats wanted a district that would protect U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge. Republicans wanted districts that would elect the maximum number of GOP congressmen. And some people from both parties wanted a district that would likely lead to the defeat of longtime Cleveland Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

They all got what they wanted.

But to make it work required drawing a hideously gerrymandered district for the southwest Ohio congressman, one that meanders some 200 miles from near Dayton north into Lorain County near Cleveland.

And now it’s fitting that Republicans have given this seven-term sycophant a starring role in the televised House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump.
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