{"id":33336,"date":"2018-08-07T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33336"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:31:00","slug":"republicans-on-parade-8-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/republicans-on-parade-8-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 8\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RepublicansOnParade6\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RepublicansOnParade6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/RepublicansOnParade6.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred twenty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican congressional candidate in Ohio 12th, Troy Balderson.&#160;&#160; He is so honored for the normal Republican courage he showed over supporting a Republican pervert&#160; enabler to be Speaker of the House.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0807Coward\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0807Coward\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0807Coward.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"203\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/08\/05\/ohio-special-election-democrats-764337\">special election<\/a> for Ohio&#8217;s 12th Congressional District takes place Tuesday. And Republicans are increasingly terrified about the prospect of losing yet another reliably conservative seat in a race that is now a tossup.<\/p>\n<p>GOP candidate Troy Balderson, however, also appears to be terrified of tipping his hand about what he would actually do in Congress \u2014 starting with whether or not he would back a man mired in a sex abuse scandal for speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>In a new video posted by American Bridge, when confronted about Jim Jordan&#8217;s run for the speakership, Balderson simply ran away&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/gop-candidate-runs-when-pressed-jim-jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Jordan was Assistant Wrestling Coach at Ohio State University, he enabled the team doctor to abuse wrestlers by covering-up for him.&#160; Now, instead of resigning from Congress, as decency demands, Jordan is running for Speaker of the House. Here&#8217;s video of Balderson slinking away, when asked to confirm whether Jordan is his choice for Speaker.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RMdCyrC-OFM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If elected I have no doubt that, if he wins, Balderson will also support the cover-up for another GOP pervert, whose name and tiny hands. etc. shall go unmentioned.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tomorrow, I hope to report that Danny O&#8217;Connor has won the seat and flipped another bright red district.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\">91 DAYS!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred twenty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican congressional candidate in Ohio 12th, Troy Balderson.&#160;&#160; He is so honored for the normal Republican courage he showed over supporting a Republican pervert&#160; enabler to be Speaker of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/republicans-on-parade-8-7-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}