Ousted Speaker John Boehner Emerges as ‘Quiet Mentor,’ ‘Surprising Tutor’ to Mike JohnsonBradley Jaye 3 Jun 2024
John Boehner, the conservative nemesis turned lobbyist ousted from the speakership in 2015 for pushing Obama administration priorities, has reportedly emerged as a “quiet mentor” to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Boehner — “an establishment Republican who was speaker a decade ago chronologically, but an eon ago in the GOP’s radical evolution — has become a surprising tutor” to Johnson, Axios reported Monday.
The report comes days after Boehner headlined a fundraiser in his native Ohio on May 30 for Johnson’s PAC. In reporting on the upcoming fundraiser, Punchbowl News noted, “If you’ve listened to Speaker Mike Johnson recently, there is some John Boehner influence poking through.”
That influence, and the similarities between the two men’s preferred governing style, is increasingly clear.
Boehner surrendered his gavel in October 2015 amid a conservative mutiny due to his ushering through of Democrat priorities in a spending bill — and multiple previous violations of the Hastert Rule. Roughly two dozen Republican members, led by then-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), indicated they would vote against Boehner in a “vacate the chair” resolution, which led to Boehner resigning.
The Hastert Rule is an informal rule predicating that a Speaker must only advance legislation supported by a majority of the majority.
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