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Marcy Kaptur's Republican challenger gets thrown overboard for lying about his service [1]
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Date: 2022-09-22
Earlier on Thursday, James LaPorta, who co-authored the AP’s fisking of Majewski with Brian Slodysko, updated the story with links to documents proving that Majewski had built his campaign on stolen valor.
x A number of people have asked to see the documentation the @AP obtained about GOP House nominee JR Majewski’s military record. We have updated this story with a embedded link, so readers can view the records for themselves.
https://t.co/u1Aaac6tsw — James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) September 22, 2022
Read the documents here. LaPorta and Slodysko obtained them via a public records request. They show that Majewski spent the better part of his career based at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. In May 2002, he was deployed to Qatar as a “passenger operations specialist,” where he helped load and unload planes.
Apparently someone at the NRCC saw those documents. On Thursday afternoon, political ad tracker Medium Buying revealed that the NRCC was yanking all of its advertising on Majewski’s behalf.
x FLASH --#OH09: NRCC IE is canceling TV ad schedules that it had booked for the final six weeks of the campaign (9/27-11/8) — Medium Buying (@MediumBuying) September 22, 2022
Shortly afterward, Axios senior political correspondent Josh Kraushaar revealed that the NRCC has essentially handed Kaptur a 21st term.
x Confirmed: Republicans pulling out — and all but surrendering — against Dem Rep. Marcy Kaptur, per R source familiar with House strategy. A Trump district.
Majewski’s Jan 6 baggage and lying about military service sunk his political prospects.
https://t.co/zZtYwQl5V4 — Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) September 22, 2022
Kraushaar later reported that the NRCC yanked about $1 million worth of ads from the Toledo market.
Calling this an embarrassment for the red team is being kind to it. Due to a brutal gerrymander rammed through the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature, Kaptur now found herself in a district that Trump would have won 51-48. By comparison, Biden carried her old district by a punishing 59-40 margin. However, Toledo has long been a blue dot in a sea that’s as red as an Ohio State jersey, so shifting the district just a few miles to the west to take in territory previously in the heavily Republican 5th district dramatically altered its political landscape. However, two state legislators split the vote, allowing Majewski to win the primary with a paltry 36 percent.
It says something that Majewski still had a chance in this district despite being forced to walk back his past support of QAnon, as well as lamenting that he didn’t enter the Capitol on Jan. 6. Remember, despite the Republicans’ best efforts to bludgeon Kaptur out of office, the best they could do was a district that Trump would have won by three. And now they’ve essentially waved the white flag.
But pulling ads is not enough, in my mind. The lies about Majewski’s past have shown not just beyond reasonable doubt, but ALL doubt, that he is not fit for office. Indeed, his only comments to the AP about its findings were nothing more than Trumpian deflection, saying that “my accomplishments and record are under attack.” Said accomplishments and record have now been exposed as lies.
There are times when it is better to have no candidate in a race than someone who is unfit. This is one of them. If Majewski has anything at all in him, his next statement will be an apology for his deceit—and an announcement that he’s withdrawing from the race. And if he isn’t willing to do so, someone from the Ohio GOP or the national GOP ought to tell him to do so. It may be too much to ask from a state where one of the most prominent Republicans is Rep. Jim “Do What We Said” Jordan. But there are certain things that can’t be tolerated in a country with civilized discourse—and building a campaign on stolen valor is one of them.
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