The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Cincinnatus on October 04, 2013, 02:55:00 am
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As Speaker John A. Boehner (R.-Ohio) struggles with the budget crisis, a Troy, Ohio schoolteacher and Tea Party activist announced Sept. 30 he will challenge Boehner in the 2014 GOP primary.
Joseph D. “J.D.” Winteregg, who is a founder of the Ohio Accountability Project, a grassroots organization in Ohio-8, a congressional district bordering Indiana, said he is motivated by the gulf between the interests and values of the district and Boehner.
It is a gulf exasperated by the Speaker’s concern for national issues, which has come to mean that although the district’s congressman is the Speaker of the House, the district is without a congressman, he said.
At part of his launch, Winteregg kicked off his campaign with an Oct. 1 segment on the “Morning Blaze Show with Doc Thompson,” part of Glenn Beck’s The Blaze Radio Network.
Thompson was skeptical when he heard Winteregg was a schoolteacher, and he became even more skeptical when he heard the candidate is a French teacher. “A French teacher?!? Oooo.”
Winteregg told him not to worry, especially considering that he was a French teach, who has actually been to France. “After my time with that socialist government—you know, I lived and worked there—I made a vow that I would never let that happen in America,” he said.
“I love the culture, I love the people, but I despise the politics, but we are clearly trending that way,” he said.
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/10/01/tea-party-activist-launches-primary-challenge-to-boehner/
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Sounds like an interesting alternative for that Ohio district. Too bad Boehner is spineless.
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Boehner's working his ass off to try to hold the Republicans together, and this pansy-assed French teacher isn't happy.
I'm sure Boehner's shaking in his boots.
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I just knew this guy would be here adding some kind of "just surrender, it's hopeless" posting , along with his usual and quite unnecessary personal insult: pansy-assed French teacher
He really has great difficulty expressing himself without adding some kind of venom directed at others.
Quite interesting to observe.
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http://www.humanevents.com/2013/10/01/tea-party-activist-launches-primary-challenge-to-boehner/
I will be watching this one closely. This could be epic. GOP Elite and Freemason John Boehner vs the political novice french teacher "J.D.” Winteregg. This could be a glorious and stunning David and Goliath smackdown or a brutal and merciless McCain vs "J.D.” Hayworth trouncing. No matter what happens it is sure to be entertaining. May the best man win. :eleph:
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A government employee-- that's the best they could muster?
Go back to the drawing board and find a private sector worker.
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How interesting that some alleged conservatives' immediate reaction is to mock and disparage this fellow. Now you know why it's so difficult to get good people to run for office.