Portman won't run for reelection

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) will not seek reelection to a third term in 2022, he announced Monday morning.

Portman plans to make the announcement at a press conference in Cincinnati. In a statement, Portman cited political partisanship as a factor in his decision.

“We live in an increasingly polarized country where members of both parties are being pushed further to the right and further to the left, and that means too few people who are actively looking to find common ground,” he said. “This is not a new phenomenon, of course, but a problem that has gotten worse over the past few decades.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/535669-portman-wont-run-for-reelection

[januoro]

1. He voted with Trump 88% of the time

A moderate he's not.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/rob-portman/

[mdbl]

16. he dared not question Der Fuhrer

or his party.

[HUAJIAO]

2. "further to the left.." ??

cockamaimee statement. He wouldn't know left if it wacked him upside the head...

[Mike 03]

3. Haven't followed Portman that closely. Does this make him more likely to

vote to convict?

Or is he a "hopeless case"?

[NEOBuckeye]

6. Portman is as insipid and spineless as it gets

He will not take a stand and vote to convict Trump, even when he has nothing to lose by doing so.

[Mike 03]

8. Disappointing to hear

But I appreciate the information.

[rustbeltvoice]

11. Agree.

He was in gwbjr's administration, where he was buddy-buddy with Kavanaugh. Portman is a very rich man. He ran two BS senate campaigns: #1 Portman job plan, #2 Portman cares about the opioid epidemic. He called Obama a "socialist".

What i have always said about Portman, he is a repuke you can put in a suit, and not worry that he will s*** himself in public.

[brooklynite]

4. Prospective candidates

John Cranley (D) - Cincinnati Mayor, Ex-City Councilman, Attorney & '00/'06 US Rep Nom.
Zach Klein (D) - Columbus City Attorney & Ex-Columbus City Council President
Nan Whaley (D) - Dayton Mayor & Ex-Dayton City Councilwoman (May run for Gov)

[NEOBuckeye]

5. I'd like to see Whaley run from that group

I also like her more as a candidate for Governor. But Ohio Dems don’t exactly have a deep bench of talent these days to pull from. Whaley also declared that she would not run for re-election as Dayton’s Mayor, so maybe she already has her sights set on something like this?

Wish Columbus’s former mayor Mike Coleman would get back into politics and go for it, but he seems to be pretty happy with private life, and I can’t say that I blame him.

I also wonder about someone like Congressman Tim Ryan from Youngstown.

[Backseat Driver]

14. Betty Sutton (D) (?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Sutton

[Wuddles440]

7. Probably...

clearing the deck for Gym Jordan and maybe Renacci (if he doesn't run for Governor).

[Mike 03]

9. Jordan in the Senate...

That's a nauseating thought.

[mdbl]

15. What's with Ohio?

I used to think of Ohioans as intelligent but 2 times voting for trump showed me otherwise

[NEOBuckeye]

20. Brain Drain

We have lost a generation of our best and brightest to other parts of the US, mainly south but also west.

Regressive Republican politics have made this a stagnant, unattractive state to live in. The GOP-controlled state legislature can’t find the energy to do much of anything other than pass increasingly tighter restrictions on abortion. They are such single-minded idiots.

[NEOBuckeye]

19. Gym Jordan is a shitbag

Hate him with a passion. A lot of Ohioans actually do. He is a disgusting, awful man. He wins because he is in a solid red district though. Not sure he will win statewide, but who knows? I never thought so many people here would be hoodwinked by Trump either, not once, but twice.

[Wuddles440]

21. That's insulting to shitbags!

Unfortunately, Jordan's boorish behavior, thuggishness, and Neanderthal magnetism resonants with many of the knuckle-dragging citizens of Ohio (especially so in the rural areas). We're living in one fucked up state that's craving for a return to the Dark Ages.

[Tommymac]

10. Want do you want, a medal?

Go play in the sandtrap with your ex-president. Fuck off coward.

[catrose]

12. LET'S GO GET IT!

[dawn frenzy adams]

13. I live in Ohio

It infuriates me that this spineless coward is going to be collecting a pension from taxpayers- he didn't do a damn thing for. Perhaps, we the people- should hire a lawyer and sue the Republican Party.

[RussBLib]

17. so....run away!!

Portman was sorta moderate, but not really.

[dugog55]

18. Well, except for the fact the Dems have not really moved at all.

The GOP however has been sliding to the right since the 60's. You know, when all the scary black people actually started getting some of the rights afforded to them by the Constitution. Nixon, Reagan, BushII and especially Trump, have all pushed the GOP so far to the right that Eisenhower would think it is a Fascist Party now.

The Dems party platform is fairly close to the same as it was in the 60's and 70'. Better wages for workers, healthcare relief, more and stronger unions, Social Security, Medicare, etc.... Most of the same things that were on the Republican platform in the 60's.

I am surprised (well not really) that the MSM does not point out the insanity of the GOP calling the Dems "leftists" like they are Lenin or Stalin. If the average American weren't so under educated, I want to say stupid but that's not nice, they would realize how far behind other countries we are in having a solid socialized safety net for citizens. But they believe all that 'pull yourself up by your bootstrap" bullshit. They only young people with a real chance to get ahead now are born into wealthy families.

In the 60's this country was close to center, say six on a clock face. Now we are somewhere about a four with full blown fascism sitting at three.

The next ten years are going to be critical to what becomes of out country