This congresswoman was born and raised in Ukraine. She just voted against aid for her homeland

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SHERIDAN, Ind. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when $61 billion in additional support for the war effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it.

Instead she has called for better oversight of U.S. funds and opposed giving “blank checks” to the Ukrainian cause. She says U.S. border security should be a bigger priority.

That puts her more in line with conservative House Republicans and more notably with voters in her deeply conservative central Indiana congressional district. She's locked in a tough reelection fight in the May 7 GOP primary, made all the more complicated by her public announcement more than a year ago that she wouldn't seek another term, a decision she later reversed.

The aid package, part of a larger bill that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hot spots, was approved by the House on April 20, the Senate on Tuesday and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/congresswoman-born-raised-ukraine-she-041129407.html

[Delphinus]

1. She is awful

And has said she wasn't going to run again, but then someone changed her mind.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. One critical detail missing.

Which Party does she represent?

[Irish_Dem]

3. Selling out your country is the GOP way.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. So why isn;t her Party affiliation an important detail?

I infer that she is a Republican, but why isn't that an important fact in this story? Puts a different perspective on the story, IMHO.

[Irish_Dem]

8. They are deliberately misleading readers.

We think she must be a Dem.
Who is not voting with the other Dems.

She must think there is something so wrong with the bill even a Ukrainian Dem can't vote for it.

If we knew she was an R, we would understand immediately.
And would not be surprised at all the she is selling out her own country of origin.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Eggzactly!

You answered my question as I would have.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I should get a prize.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. OK, I award you the first "Old and In the Way Prize". First ever.

For reading my mind!

[Irish_Dem]

16. I'm honored.

Just send the cash money part of the prize.
You may keep the trophy.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. I, perhaps, if I knew how do do it would send you the $ electronically.....

Not good at that, so I could pay you for a large Dunkin' Donut's (reg or decaf) coffee. Best if I send 4 bucks in the mail. PM your PO Box.

[Irish_Dem]

19. I have never tasted Dunkin' Donut coffee.

Do they have good coffee?

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. It's a coffee that you have to buy and accept. Not as cheap as, say, Northern New England gas station that delivers

"Green Mountain" coffee at 1/2 the price, but still, $4 bucks is $4 bucks. You could probably get a 2 day old croissant with the coffee and pocket the change.

[Irish_Dem]

23. As enticing as the gas station coffee and croissant sound, I'll take a pass on that.

I'll take the recommendation of DD coffee as prize payment in full.
I pass by a DD every now and then but never stopped there.
Next time I will go in and get a cup of coffee.
Sounds like a fun stop.

[OAITW r.2.0]

24. I don't work for Dunkin, nor have they've ever paid me for a rec.

If you need a coffee, they have one.

[niyad]

29. She is an "r". I checked just to make sure, but my experience is, if

a report omits party affiliation of a politician in something not nice, they are an "r". Have not been wrong yet.

[Irish_Dem]

40. PutinGOP media hard at work, as usual.

[question everything]

26. "Locked in a tough GOP primary"

[Silent Type]

28. Her party affiliation is identified in article, right under the opening photo.

[LoisB]

6. She is a Republican.

[LiberalFighter]

14. Third paragraph

[Bob_in_VA]

31. In the Article

"She's locked in a tough reelection fight in the May 7 GOP primary"

[Celerity]

39. It was not left out at all, here are the fifth and sixth sentences in the article:

That puts her more in line with conservative House Republicans and more notably with voters in her deeply conservative central Indiana congressional district. She's locked in a tough reelection fight in the May 7 GOP primary, made all the more complicated by her public announcement more than a year ago that she wouldn't seek another term, a decision she later reversed.

[dalton99a]

4. Somebody gave her a perfect phone call

[Cha]

10. Wonder what Pres Zelensky would have to

say about that.

Does she have any relatives in Ukraine.?

[muriel_volestrangler]

43. BBC just interviewed her hometown (Chernihiv) mayor, who was critical, but measured in his response

From 22 minutes in "The World Tonight" radio programme (live link here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm , or this might work after it ends (only about 10 minutes from now) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqv8

Then they interviewed her. And she's a complete nut-job. She claims Zelensky and Biden are "corrupt" and "idiots". She's spreading the Putin disinformation. And tries to claim it's nothing to do with getting primaried. Or that she's changed her position.

[Cha]

44. TY.. a magat robot. Grateful Ukraine 🇺🇦

Got their Aid in spite of ugly Putin puppets

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Indeed....there's a real story to be told about why Republicans suddenly change their tune.

It's not a better political argument.

[question everything]

27. She even was dressed in blue and yellow during that session

[2naSalit]

5. Not everyone born there...

Is on the side of democracy, some are for ruzzia. She might be one of those.

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. Can you elucidate?

She's on the side of Republicans now, but was a pro-Ukrainian refugee What happened?

[2naSalit]

34. Says she was...

Born in Ukraine, that is all. It assumes that because she was born there that she's automatically pro Ukraine of today. Many ruzzians and ruzzian patriots were born there. People come here for many reasons. Maybe she's part of a sleeper cell, you know?

That she's currently an R, is telling. I just think she wasn't really Ukrainian Ukrainian at any point int time.

[OAITW r.2.0]

37. I could be wrong....and I most frequently am......

but I think she came for a better life and someone convinced her to be a Republican with a nice salary and a script.

OTOH, I send this tune as I am writing this.

https://music.

&si=bfpwwe2zVtcIMp0d

[2naSalit]

38. And I could be wrong too.

You have a valid point, she could have just been convinced by someone to go that route.

[Happy Hoosier]

9. My Congresswoman...

She is legit awful. Really awful.

[LiberalFighter]

17. There are crazy Republican ads in my district. Indiana 3rd District

Grant Bucher
Wendy W. Davis *
Michael Felker
Jon Kenworthy
Tim Smith *
Marlin A. Stutzman *
Eric Whalen
Andy Zay *

Those with an asterisk have ads. Haven't seen any for the others. They are all creepy.

[Chellee]

25. Stutzman will fit right in.

He retired last time under a cloud of ethics investigations for campaign finance violations.

[Emile]

20. She grew up under communism and is an expert on socialism.

She is sickening.

[haele]

21. Lots of Russians were resettled in Ukraine by Stalin after the Holodomor.

From the 30's through the 50's. This to replace native Ukrainians, Tartars, and other groups found not to be loyal to Stalin.
She may have been born in Ukraine, but her family historically might well be ethnic Russians, and owed much of their relative prosperity in Ukraine to the old Soviet resettlement policy.

Haele

[TeamProg]

30. She's a REPUBLICAN!!! Where is the hook? Get her off the stage!

[TeamProg]

32. Boooooo. !!!

[tornado34jh]

35. The thing is, Ukraine is very complicated, even after independence

Victoria Spartz (born Viktoria Kul'heyko) was born in Nosivka, in what is Chernihiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. There is a significant minority of Russians and Belarusians there in the northern districts. There are many Ukrainians, particularly the older ones, who were under communism/socialism, but yet when the Soviet Union collapsed, it ended up being very difficult post-independence to find work because during Soviet times, there were a lot of them. Ukrainian culture was suppressed for a long time and it's only recently within the last decade or so that Ukraine really asserted itself as being independent of Russia. But again, Ukraine has been divided linguistically between Ukrainian and Russian for a long time, particularly in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, even despite the fact that most of the people of eastern Ukraine voted for Ukraine to be independent. Even now, politically, there are big divisions within Ukraine, although it doesn't seem like it right now. But again, since she is in Indiana, it isn't surprising that she would follow the GOP playbook.

[spanone]

36. She's a republican in Indiana....more maga than Ukrainian

[maxrandb]

41. If you tried to produce a movie

and you presented a character that was a Russian asset who won a Congressional seat in Congress, and Rep. Spartz was your example, it would be rejected for being too obvious.

[Azathoth]

42. "Locked in a GOP primary battle"

So not a serious person and should not be expected to act seriously.

[Angleae]

45. Ukraine wasn't a country back then. It was part of the Soviet Union.