Right mounts campaign to make Jim Jordan the GOP leader
Source: Politico
A collection of outside groups wants the Freedom Caucus co-founder to succeed Paul Ryan. But rank-and-file members aren't likely to abide.
By RACHAEL BADE 09/12/2018 05:09 AM EDT
A collection of powerful conservative groups is mounting an aggressive campaign to install Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan as House speaker or minority leader in the next Congress, according to a half-dozen sources with direct knowledge of the effort.
The bid to empower a rabble-rouser despised by much of the House Republican Conference will almost surely fall short. But success for the groups doesnt necessarily require Jordan to end up in the top leadership spot.
Their effort could deny California Rep. Kevin McCarthy the 218 votes needed to secure the speakership if Republicans retain the House majority an outcome conservatives would cheer just as much. And if Republicans lose the majority, the groups intend to demand new leadership, which could wound McCarthys bid for minority leader.
The effort marks a rare instance of coordination among at least four prominent outside groups as well as a handful of smaller conservative groups with big nationwide followings. They include Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, Conservative Leadership Fund, Tea Party Patriots, and For America.
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lark
(23,099 posts)They are saying covering up ongoing sexual assault on boys is fine with them as long as it's done by one of them. Sexual assault is only bad when it's done by minorities against white girls, otherwise just look the other way. They make me so sick.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)No one heard a thing
You can't blame no one
No one didn't know
No one didn't hear
No one didn't see
No one couldn't imagine that an irresponsible & untrustworthy KGOP republican asset would be given more power to ignore and perpetuate injustice and treason against the USA.
Lucky Luciano
(11,256 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,040 posts)We pretty much knew that already, but the more popular he is with that crowd, cements how bad he really must be.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)tRUMP and Pence are thrown out.....who becomes POTUS? GYM Jordon.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)They love fucking assholes like him.
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)neohippie
(1,142 posts)Clearly the truth and scandals don't seem to have the impact with the GOP that it does for Democratic members of Congress
https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/two-former-ohio-state-wrestlers-claim-coach-asked-them-to-walk-back-jim-jordan-accusations/
Former OSU coach trying to protect Jim Jordan
Now, according to a new report from NBC News, two of those wrestlers are also saying that former OSU wrestling coach Russ Hellickson has contacted them and asked them to walk back their accusations against Jordan. Hellickson also reportedly told the athletes that he could help them release a statement in support of Jordan.
One of the wrestlers, Dunyasha Yetts, shared the text messages that Hellickson sent to him.
"I'm sorry you got caught up in the media train," Hellickson wrote in a July 4 text to Dunyasha Yetts that the former wrestler shared with NBC News. "If you think the story got told wrong about Jim, you could probably write a statement for release that tells your story and corrects what you feel bad about. I can put you in contact with someone who would release it."
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"Do not talk to any media. People will call you to convince you I said to talk. No no no."
Yetts also said that Hellickson called him to discuss the pressure to defend Jordan.
"He said, 'I will defend Jimmy until I have to put my hand on a Bible and be asked to tell the truth, then Jimmy will be on his own,'" Yetts said in an interview this week, recalling his conversation with Hellickson. "I told him, 'I'm going to contradict you, coach, because I'm telling the truth.'"
Another wrestler, Mike DiSabato, says that Hellickson similarly reached out to him. However, DiSabato would not give permission to make the texts public "out of loyalty to his old coach"
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Not Gohmert stupid, mind you, but a dim bulb none the less.
SWBTATTReg
(22,124 posts)Some may think that nothing has stuck to his reputation, but I guarantee you that the stench of this is on him now, and will be forever. He's even been included in a lawsuit I thought (maybe more than 1 lawsuit too).
The smell is to high heaven.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Marcuse
(7,480 posts)[link:http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2018/07/reminding-jim-jordan-former-gop-speaker.html|
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Let Jim Jordan be the next minority leader. Can you imagine what that shit show would look like.
keithbvadu2
(36,803 posts)Hastert, Jordan,,, GOP seems to like wrestling coaches involved in molesting wrestlers.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)traitors to this country .