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OH-Sen: Sen. Rob Portman's (R) Former Legislative Director Endorses Tim Ryan (D) For Senate [1]
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Date: 2022-08-16
Rep. Tim Ryan (D. OH-13)
Retiring U.S. Senator Rob Portman’s (R. OH) former legislative director, Jonathan Petuchowski, penned an op-ed for The Columbus Dispatch today in which he decided to buck his own party and endorse Rep. Tim Ryan (D. OH-13) in the race to become Portman’s successor:
Voters have no reason whatsoever to trust Vance. He’s a dangerous fraud:
x "The average politician sheds skin throughout the year — as soon as old layers become liabilities. J.D. Vance is in a class all his own... [Vance] sports new epidermis so often snakeskin sightings on the campaign trail in Ohio have exploded." #OHSen
https://t.co/qZxF16TOTK — Michael Beyer (@michbeyer) August 16, 2022 The baby-faced bestseller grew a beard to morph from Silicon Valley elite to Midwestern mint when he moved from California to Ohio to run for the Senate seat. To compete with primary rivals jostling for a coveted (?) endorsement from the most corrupt president in American history, Vance did a 180-degree transition from Never-Trumper to Uber-Trumper. He changed from center-right to full-on MAGA, embracing the far side of fanatical and everything the Dear Leader fabricated about a legitimate election he lost. Vance’s strategic conversion to the cult of personality paid off with a last-minute blessing from the loser. That affirmation (from an amoral psychopath) and the millions spent on his behalf by a billionaire benefactor, propelled Vance to a narrow primary victory. As Nov. 8 closes in, the Hillbilly Elegy author has reinvented himself again. What worked on a rabid MAGA base might make general election voters, suburban moms, and independents recoil in horror. Vance must smooth the scary edges of his radical makeover. Appear more mainstream than extreme. To that end, his campaign rolled out its first TV ad for a broad electorate with a decidedly feel-good, instead of fascist bent. The comfy commercial, narrated by Vance’s soft-spoken wife against a muted home background, extolls the virtues of a family-loving Republican who came up hard the way, served in the military and wants to fight for Ohio. Typical political fare of warm and fuzzy to mitigate immoderate and doctrinaire. Of course, it tells Ohioans absolutely nothing about who Vance is, what he believes in, what he’ll do as a U.S. Senator and which campaign incarnation of the 38-year-old’s is authentic or opportunistic. But Vance’s exposure during the primary as a fascist-admiring extremist only Tucker Carlson could love tells voters plenty about his anything-but-mainstream positions. The real deal is a real authoritarian who envisions a society under the jackboot of righteous conformity rigorously enforced. Gilead, if you will. But don’t take my word for it. Take his. Vance talks about purging the government of nonbelievers, seizing the “institutions of the left,” replacing the American “regime” with loyalists of the New Right. “I think that what Trump (after he runs in 2024 and installs himself as king) should do, if I were giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
He’s self serving:
In the year JD Vance became a US Senate candidate, he earned more than two-and-a-half times more in book royalties than a US senator makes in a year, according to a new congressional financial disclosure. Vance reported earning $475,380 in 2021 off of royalties from HarperCollins, which published his best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" six years ago. Vance's book royalty income actually increased 2021, the year he announced his political candidacy. In 2020, he made $347,752 in royalties, which doesn't include his earnings from a deal with Netflix. Vance's financial disclosure report also shows that he made $327,083 from his salaried position with Narya Capital Management in Cincinnati, Ohio. The venture capitalist's financial disclosures came under increased scrutiny after Vance blew past a federal deadline in filing a prior disclosure in late 2021. Additionally, the Federal Election Commission questioned Vance's campaign for initially failing to provide details on around $700,000 in loans that he personally made to his campaign. Vance is set to face off against Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan for an open Senate seat in November. Thanks to a loophole in federal law, Vance — if he wins — will still be allowed to rake in the royalties from his bestselling book in addition to his congressional salary of $174,000.
And he has no idea what he’s talking and is a huge liar:
x BREAKING: In a rare public appearance, JD Vance once again shows he knows nothing about Ohio.
Seriously, dude. Go back to San Francisco. You're embarrassing yourself.
https://t.co/jKJ2LiDRsH pic.twitter.com/xCg0ZNXWOV — Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) August 15, 2022
Vance truly is a shitty candidate:
The Republican leadership might have expected fewer problems from Vance, who is about four points behind Tim Ryan in Ohio. The Hillbilly Elegy author has been a frequent commentator in conservative circles and is a TV regular. But Vance attracted severe criticism in July, after Vice published footage of him suggesting that people should stay in violent marriages, during a Q & A at a school in September 2021. Speaking about the rise in marriages that end in divorce, Vance said: “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace. “Which is the idea that like: ‘Well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.’ “And maybe it worked out for the moms and dads, though I’m skeptical. But it really didn’t work out for the kids of those marriages.” Asked by Vice News why “it would be better for children if their parents stayed in violent marriages than if they divorced”, Vance said he was a victim of domestic violence. “I reject the premise of your bogus question,” Vance said. “As anyone who studies these issues knows: domestic violence has skyrocketed in recent years, and is much higher among non-married couples. That’s the ‘trick’ I reference: that domestic violence would somehow go down if progressives got what they want, when in fact modern society’s war on families has made our domestic violence situation much worse. Any fair person would recognize I was criticizing the progressive frame on this issue, not embracing it.”
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