I am proud of my Representative...that I didn't vote for

[pbmus]

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Never in my lifetime would have thought this could happen...

[sheshe2]

1. I give Kinzinger and Cheney a lot of credit.

They stood up to him while the rest of the GOP cowered under Trumps control.

They showed courage. I am no GOP supporter, yet give credit where credit is due.

I know many will take me to task for this, yet as I said, credit where credit is due. They both are standing for the rights of the American people and their vote.

[Progressive Jones]

3. I know people who live in his district. They are Dems, but they tell me he's popular there. nt

[sheshe2]

4. Thanks, Progressive Jones.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I'm One Of Them!

The closest election he's had was when he beat Deb Halvorson to get into office. Won easily, but redistricting helped him a lot.
Since then he's won in landslides, and by even more in the primaries. (The teabaggers loathe him.)
Talked to him a few times. Nice enough guy, but he still believes that silly supply side stuff, despite all the contradictory evidence. Small government, private enterprise has all the answers, blah, blah, blah.
But, yes he was very popular in this district. We live about 10 miles from his house.

[Progressive Jones]

15. The people I know in that district are in Ottawa, Rochelle, and Belvidere. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

16. The District Is Geographically Huge

There's a DUer in this district, that lives 90 miles from our house.
Ottawa is about 40 miles from us. We live well east of there & a LONG way from Belvidere.
Like I said, I live near Kinzinger so those folks you know from way up north are people he'd rarely see.
I've seen him at banquets for business affairs down here. Actually sat at the same table with him twice.
Unlike your friends, it's far more likely I've had such experiences. Just proximity.

[Progressive Jones]

17. Oh yeah, it's a YUGE district. Runs from the WI line to the Indiana line. Mostly rural. nt

[ShazzieB]

5. I'm with you, 100%.

Liz Cheney and I couldn't be farther apart politically, but I think she's a decent human being who genuinely cares about our country and is doing the right thing in the face of a ton of criticism (and no doubt death threats). That takes guts and I have to respect it.

My hat is off to her.

[SCantiGOP]

2. You're just showing off, pbmus

The guy I didn’t vote for yelled “You lie!” at the President.
And I also get to not vote for Lindsey the Spineless Wonder.

[Hortensis]

11. :) I can play too. I actually mourned not getting to not vote

for Doug Collins after he gave up his seat to lose a GA senate primary. He'd made us proud by turning tRump's first house impeachment hearing into a revival meeting to sell snake oil to America.

The replacement I now don't vote for is trying hard, but running second to MT Greene in fines racked up for refusing to mask in the house chamber just isn't in the same class. It is a distinction, though.

Just realized,...probably everyone has a candidate in this competition.

[SCantiGOP]

12. I'll see your Doug Collins

and raise you a Strom Thurmond.
There's no rule against putting dead people on your Worst Person in the World team.

[Hortensis]

13. Ouch. Well, I'll counter with GA Gov Lester Maddox then, but

I'm unsure how many points his late career as a nightclub entertainer should be worth. His partner, a musician whom he'd gotten pardoned from prison, had once worked in his restaurant, and they performed as "The Governor and his Dishwasher." His partner was black, and I think that should be worth something, but subtracted or added, or both, and from whom, I'm not sure.

[SCantiGOP]

18. That's a tough one, you might have taken the lead

I still remember when he won, which was in the legislature since they had a three way race and no one got the majority. Even the racist Democratic Party in 1960s Georgia thought Maddox was too extreme, so they ran a more centrist candidate against him.
The Republican led, but the legislature saw the nature of their constituents and voted for Ax Handle Lester.

[Hortensis]

19. God! But I'm a little jealous of Strom too.

Let’s agree they both would have made sure we never missed a vote.

[relayerbob]

6. Would have been more impressed if he had shown up Thursday

[pbmus]

7. Still proud, he's on baby watch

Wife’s pregnant

[calimary]

8. Yeah, I heard that. Actually makes me like him a little more.

Yes. Your wife needs you.

We need you sometimes. She needs you ALL the time. We need you, but she needs you more.

[Cha]

9. Rt TY

[electric_blue68]

10. Yeah, right now they are doing the absolutely right thing. Props.