After yesterday’s vote, I, like probably every Democrat in America, heaved a huge sigh of relief. I felt a brief moment of almost giddiness that there were a handful of TWENTY rational Republicans who would save our nation from a 15-month-long paralysis of legislative work, weaponization and impeachment circuses, destruction of governmen…
After yesterday’s vote, I, like probably every Democrat in America, heaved a huge sigh of relief. I felt a brief moment of almost giddiness that there were a handful of TWENTY rational Republicans who would save our nation from a 15-month-long paralysis of legislative work, weaponization and impeachment circuses, destruction of government institutions, and vicious cuts aimed at the vulnerable and working class in this nation. There were more voting against Jordan than had been against McCarthy in his initial round of voting!!!
I was exhausted. I took a nap.
When I woke up, I felt uneasy. I googled to see who was on the list of TWENTY. I wanted to see which Republicans voted against Jordan and who they voted for. I wanted to see the possibilities for a consensus speaker.
Here is the list from CNN:
1. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska voted for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
2. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon voted for McCarthy
3. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito of New York voted for former Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York
4. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida voted for Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana
5. Rep. Jake Ellzey of Texas voted for Rep. Mike Garcia of California
6. Rep. Andrew Garbarino of New York voted for Zeldin
7. Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida voted for McCarthy
8. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas voted for Scalise
9. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas voted for Scalise
10. Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania voted for Scalise
11. Rep. Jennifer Kiggans of Virginia voted for McCarthy
12. Rep. Nick LaLota of New York voted for Zeldin
13. Rep. Mike Lawler of New York voted for McCarthy
14. Rep. John Rutherford of Florida voted for Scalise
15. Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho voted for Scalise
16. Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas voted for Scalise
17. Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado voted for Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota
18. Rep. John James of Michigan voted for Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma
19. Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California voted for McCarthy
20. Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted for Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
If you are a constituent of any of these, and you believe they are looking for sanity, please show your support and urge them to hold the line.
Who are the twenty Republicans looking at instead of Jordan? McCarthy got 6 votes, Scalise got 7, Lee Zeldin of NY, who lost his last race for the House (in a district that includes the Hamptons with a median family income of over $125,000), got 3 all from the NY delegation, with Mike Garcia, Tom Emmer, Tom Cole, and Tom Massie getting one each.
Thirteen of these votes are pure “FU” votes to stick it back to Jordan for leading the party into this circus.
To get a reading on who, of Zeldin and the others, might be the most amenable to a working bipartisan speakership, I turned to the data at Voteview. Voteview is a database that has analyzed the voting records of members of Congress and classified them along an ideology metric from liberal to conservative based on their voting records in the current Congress. You can see graphics supporting these conclusions on my substack.
I read the data as Cole being the most amenable to bipartisanship. At this point, all of the alternative nominees in the circus voted for Jordan. To get a reading on Zeldin, I have to go back into the data for the 117th Congress, but given the district Zeldin represented, you might have an inkling of what I expect the result to be.
The bigger question is, where are those who cast the votes against Jordan on the ideological scale?
What I can glean from this is that the less doctrinaire conservatives, whom I have dubbed “remnants” in my Substack analysis of the fracturing of the FRG (Former Republican Party) are not yet showing any evidence of coalescing around a consensus candidate that would work with Democrats in a bid for sanity. The 10 with the least conservative Voteview ideological rankings voted for McCarthy, Scalese or Zeldin. Also interesting was that not a single one of the Republicans who had bruited around extending McHenry’s powers nominated him.
As we wait for the wheel to turn, I will be working with the Voteview database to try to pull out other insights.
Just a personal note. I am writing exclusively about US politics. I am not ignoring the crises in the rest of the world. I am a second generation Ukrainian-American and I have worked closely with Palestinian and Israeli colleagues. during my research career. All of that just cuts too close to the bone for me.
Georgia, this is invaluable research. I love your passion, which wakes you in the dead of the night and you interpret your dream/sleep state into action. THESE New York Republicans are particularly endangered, for the most part they won swing districts. I will call their offices by the end of the week, to say ....,
"I offer my support for your courageous stance against the threats to our Democracy posed by Jim Jordan and the rest of your conservative party. Please stand true and do not cowar to this threat to our Democracy."
btw, I have great respect now, for your state (of Georgia!
Did you try to edit your post? I have found that Substack frequently seems to lose text when I go back in to edit a a previously posted comment. Are you referring to your post from 6:30 am ish that ended with the 11 am call to the House? I see it in my feed here.
Well, that's interesting: a couple of nights ago I woke up and looked at my phone. There were two or three really nasty reactions to what I'd said about the jacketless one. I'd already received shovelfuls of hearts, but it upset me. Next morning I checked my laptop - and they were gone.
I have found if I go back and edit something, once I hit "save" the edited version doesn't always immediately show up, especially if I edit more than once. What I tend to do is go back and re-load the entire Letter again and look up my post, or check "New first" rather than "Top first". I've always found anything I edit DOES eventually show up corrected. Oh, BTW sometimes if your post is down toward the bottom of the feed, directly above "Load more", if you're working on a comment, or editing, and somebody way up above adds something (and the whole page shifts down, what you were writing will disappear forever. I always make sure whatever I'm writing is well up in the body of the whole feed. Substack is far from perfect and can get a bit squirrelly sometimes, but in my experience it rarely eats what I'm writing. One CAN always write your comment on Notebook or Word (on PCs) or whatever and then copy & paste the whole thing into the comments section at one go. The word processing functions of your computer can be a little easier to deal with sometimes than Substack!
Some may have even voted for him reluctantly, perhaps not fearing for their jobs, but for their lives, or for those of their families. They may not have wanted to appear on some "hit list" on Truth Social by Gag Man.
My rep voted for Jordan. He is only interested in his personal political career. He is part of the sedition caucus, votes in lockstep with the FRG, and does NOTHING to help my rural district.
Thank you, Georgia for giving us both the list and locations of the adult Republicans, and for whom they voted. I hope the 119th Congress will see the end of most of the squalling toddlers.
Thank You Georgia. So, not surprisingly, my Republican oil-owned seditionist congressman, representing northern Michigan and the U.P., voted for Jordan the seditionist. But, the tide may be turning! Last night here in "red" Traverse City, Dr. Heather Cox Richardson spoke to our sold out crowd about her book "Democracy Awakening!" We are inspired to work even harder to oust Rep. Bergman. Thomas Paine would be so proud!
Darn it! I didn't know! Some of our very best friends live in TC and would have loved to hear her in person...we live in Michigan too but are out of the country right now. If I had been there I would have driven the 4 hours to see and hear her speak!
Thank you, thank you, thank you Mary Pat! I hope you were lucky enough to score a ticket or two! We (my history teacher husband and I watched the whole 1:39!) It was great!!! We are in Spain right now so, it was just such a pleasure to see the interview. I bought the book for the Kindle since bringing books back and forth are too heavy but I will definitely buy the hard copy when we come back to Michigan!
So glad to help! Yes, I scored 2 tickets. Being an NWS member meant I got an alert the minute they became available. Well worth the dues! Happy Trails to you and yours!
Dr. Richardson's new book, along with the 1619 Book Project, have also highlighted the important role that immigrants and descendants of former slaves have played here. They have been the champions of Democracy in this country, Dutifully slogging along at the bottom of the economic pile while keeping hope for a better future alive.
Georgia, you are amazing! Thanks for the deep dive. The NY Times had intimated that the New York delegation would be unwilling to support the wrestling coach (who allowed his colleague to abuse his own students with impunity) and, being a former New Yorker of long standing, and one who lived in a Republican district, I am well aware of why that is: the Republicans in New York are in a tight spot. Most of them come from some of the poorest districts in the state (Allegany and Steuben Counties for instance) or the wealthy Long Island suburbs. They are not a unified group working toward a common goal. They are clawing to stay ahead. So between "George" Santos (George is not his real name) and the clown car act in Washington, NY Repubs are feeling (in the words of Tom Lehrer) like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
Never thought I would contact Kay Granger again about anything after she hung up on me during a phone town hall (when I said war against Iraq was folly). But I’ll try again. So surprised that she wasn’t gung ho for Jordan. She was one of the Moscow eight in July 2018.
She has been a chumpette all along. And she and her son are pulling a fast one with the Panther Island Project in FW. Greedy politicians have so many paths greased to get undeserved money and glory. Adding you in here Menendez
Just another nasty GOP power/money grab in Texas.....
Watching in horror at the numerous "Special Sessions" by BULLY Abbott for private and religious school choice,$8000 per child, school vouchers. Texas funds its public school's for less ($6600 ish per child)
And the BULLY has stated he will continue having Special Sessions until the issue is passed. Tell me that isn't bullying .............
TX isn't the only state involved with that plot to kill public education- NH has the Commissioner of Education, who's NEVER attended public schools and attended a conservative college, is all for school vouchers including religious ones and home schoolers. The legislature has been diverting public ed. monies to the vouchers. Unfortunately we have a Repug quadrafecta (in addition to the usual trifecta of Governor, and the two houses of the legislature, we have an Executive Council which "advises" the governor on the dispersal of funds/contracts.) We also have members of a ultra libertarian group in the legislature who don''t necessarily let it be known they belong to the group.
🙏🏼 Hoping the second ballot straightens those spaghetti spines. I’m wondering if there were any Republicans listening to Pete Aguilar’s on target speech. Ignoring common sense is what republicants do best.
The (likely) only way out of this as I see it is for 5 goppers in districts that went for Biden to switch parties and become Dems supporting Jeffries. This would likely spell the end of their career, but that may be a fait accompli anyway.
It's politics. I would have no doubt that they would find homes as appointees in a second Biden administration, ambassadors, members of commissions or appointments to various Federal agencies. There is still patronage out there in both parties.
Georgia, Yes, there is life beyond elected office if there are contacts that could be monetized. CNN, MSNBC, Blogs, books, etc. are some suggestions. Without a solid funding arm the House is a one term job so it depends on character to do the right thing. Remember when that was the central requirement a long time ago? At the moment this country is in a trough of limited commitment/dedication to sanity. God help us.
I called every NO vote on Jordan yesterday.It took less than an hour and was able to speak with several “live” people who were appreciative.Some didn’t even ask where I live including many of the message prompts. Jess Craven/Chop Wood/Carry Water has list of phone #’s to make it easy!
Bacon, R, Ne. seems like he might have some sanity. I think it's also notable that every Ohio republican congress critter voted 'for' Jordan. *Thanks Georgia...
I can see the Dems campaign message in Ohio for 2024,
"Your President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown stand behind our Democracy with sanity and maturity - and firmly against the clown car driven by Republican leaders (State Prez candidate) and Rep. Congressional leader Jim Jordan."
Screen shows these faces driving the clown car of elephants ....
Georgia, thank you for posting the CNN list of the 20.
Among the Latina & Latino Representatives (Reps Nos: 2,4,7, & 8) is MARIO DIAZ-BALART who has signaled his current willingness to work with D's to elect the Temporary House Speaker to revive the House after the 14 Day Shutdown Note, also, that the 2nd round of the R vote for Speaker scheduled for 4:30 PM Eastern yesterday was cancelled simply because,Jordan the does NOT have the needed 217 votes.
Note, that Rep #9, the very "conservative" Fort Worth, TX-R. Chairwoman, KAY GRANGER, of the House Appropriations Committee has watched her House budget work trashed.
Note also, the extreme personal pressures & a personal toll on R-House Representatives as DEBBIE LESLIE, will announced she will NOT run again for her R-AZ seat so there is NO leverage on her.
The House quorum will be called TODAY at 11 am Eastern. There are other strategies at play.
UPDATE: Per NBC, Former Speakers Boehner ,& Gingrich now back voting for the current Temporary.Speaker.
Can you cite sources for this.|? What I found in yesterday's research was that Victoria Spartz who was born in Ukraine was the only Representative who had announced that she was not seeking re-election. Of course things are changing quickly.
I found the news about Debbie Lesko at apnews.com. Also, the Phoenix newspaper is already reporting about the questionable characters who are lining up to run for her seat. See azcentral.com
I like Spartz. She is quite smart. Her district is mostly farmland so those folks are mostly hard liners and hard to convince unless there are Ag issues involved. That is the most difficult segment to penetrate with a world view. They have limited education beyond HS and focus is limited as well. GOP has done their job well since the 70s to isolate those folks who are hard to reach beyond the church.
Does this mean that the 3 non-voting representatives of Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa, all voted for Jordan? Excellent post by the way. It is sad and very disconcerting that the Republican Caucus can't even get their preferred leaders to run for House Speaker.
The "non-voting" Republican delegates can vote in the Republican conference to choose their nominee for Speaker, but they do not have a vote in the House as a whole.
After yesterday’s vote, I, like probably every Democrat in America, heaved a huge sigh of relief. I felt a brief moment of almost giddiness that there were a handful of TWENTY rational Republicans who would save our nation from a 15-month-long paralysis of legislative work, weaponization and impeachment circuses, destruction of government institutions, and vicious cuts aimed at the vulnerable and working class in this nation. There were more voting against Jordan than had been against McCarthy in his initial round of voting!!!
I was exhausted. I took a nap.
When I woke up, I felt uneasy. I googled to see who was on the list of TWENTY. I wanted to see which Republicans voted against Jordan and who they voted for. I wanted to see the possibilities for a consensus speaker.
Here is the list from CNN:
1. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska voted for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
2. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon voted for McCarthy
3. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito of New York voted for former Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York
4. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida voted for Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana
5. Rep. Jake Ellzey of Texas voted for Rep. Mike Garcia of California
6. Rep. Andrew Garbarino of New York voted for Zeldin
7. Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida voted for McCarthy
8. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas voted for Scalise
9. Rep. Kay Granger of Texas voted for Scalise
10. Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania voted for Scalise
11. Rep. Jennifer Kiggans of Virginia voted for McCarthy
12. Rep. Nick LaLota of New York voted for Zeldin
13. Rep. Mike Lawler of New York voted for McCarthy
14. Rep. John Rutherford of Florida voted for Scalise
15. Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho voted for Scalise
16. Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas voted for Scalise
17. Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado voted for Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota
18. Rep. John James of Michigan voted for Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma
19. Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California voted for McCarthy
20. Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted for Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
If you are a constituent of any of these, and you believe they are looking for sanity, please show your support and urge them to hold the line.
Who are the twenty Republicans looking at instead of Jordan? McCarthy got 6 votes, Scalise got 7, Lee Zeldin of NY, who lost his last race for the House (in a district that includes the Hamptons with a median family income of over $125,000), got 3 all from the NY delegation, with Mike Garcia, Tom Emmer, Tom Cole, and Tom Massie getting one each.
Thirteen of these votes are pure “FU” votes to stick it back to Jordan for leading the party into this circus.
To get a reading on who, of Zeldin and the others, might be the most amenable to a working bipartisan speakership, I turned to the data at Voteview. Voteview is a database that has analyzed the voting records of members of Congress and classified them along an ideology metric from liberal to conservative based on their voting records in the current Congress. You can see graphics supporting these conclusions on my substack.
I read the data as Cole being the most amenable to bipartisanship. At this point, all of the alternative nominees in the circus voted for Jordan. To get a reading on Zeldin, I have to go back into the data for the 117th Congress, but given the district Zeldin represented, you might have an inkling of what I expect the result to be.
The bigger question is, where are those who cast the votes against Jordan on the ideological scale?
What I can glean from this is that the less doctrinaire conservatives, whom I have dubbed “remnants” in my Substack analysis of the fracturing of the FRG (Former Republican Party) are not yet showing any evidence of coalescing around a consensus candidate that would work with Democrats in a bid for sanity. The 10 with the least conservative Voteview ideological rankings voted for McCarthy, Scalese or Zeldin. Also interesting was that not a single one of the Republicans who had bruited around extending McHenry’s powers nominated him.
As we wait for the wheel to turn, I will be working with the Voteview database to try to pull out other insights.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/17/politics/republicans-who-voted-against-jim-jordan/index.html
https://voteview.com/data
Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2021). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database.
https://georgiafisanick.substack.com/p/who-was-not-on-the-list
Just a personal note. I am writing exclusively about US politics. I am not ignoring the crises in the rest of the world. I am a second generation Ukrainian-American and I have worked closely with Palestinian and Israeli colleagues. during my research career. All of that just cuts too close to the bone for me.
Georgia, this is invaluable research. I love your passion, which wakes you in the dead of the night and you interpret your dream/sleep state into action. THESE New York Republicans are particularly endangered, for the most part they won swing districts. I will call their offices by the end of the week, to say ....,
"I offer my support for your courageous stance against the threats to our Democracy posed by Jim Jordan and the rest of your conservative party. Please stand true and do not cowar to this threat to our Democracy."
btw, I have great respect now, for your state (of Georgia!
Frederick, good idea! I will do the same!
Thanks, Georgia, for doing our work for us. I appreciate you.
And Georgia, That should be too close to the bone for all of us.
Where is our collective mind? This is totally loony tuney and I personally can’t even joke about any of it .
At we tally blind? This empire is exploding .
I have a similar reaction, but I'm into the Buddhist teaching about a "don't know mind." There are so many imponderables.
Are we totally blind .... my Apple 14 phone can’t follow directions!!!!
Georgia, FYI, my detailed comments on 6 of the 20 you listed as context for House tactics foday was apparently deleted by Substack Inc. ??
Did you try to edit your post? I have found that Substack frequently seems to lose text when I go back in to edit a a previously posted comment. Are you referring to your post from 6:30 am ish that ended with the 11 am call to the House? I see it in my feed here.
Well, that's interesting: a couple of nights ago I woke up and looked at my phone. There were two or three really nasty reactions to what I'd said about the jacketless one. I'd already received shovelfuls of hearts, but it upset me. Next morning I checked my laptop - and they were gone.
Thank you. I do not think you can use the Edit Tool on reply's. YES on 11 am ending Comment.
This is a test of editing a typo in this reply.
EDIT: It allowed me to fix the typo.
Thank you but, not my tools.
I have found if I go back and edit something, once I hit "save" the edited version doesn't always immediately show up, especially if I edit more than once. What I tend to do is go back and re-load the entire Letter again and look up my post, or check "New first" rather than "Top first". I've always found anything I edit DOES eventually show up corrected. Oh, BTW sometimes if your post is down toward the bottom of the feed, directly above "Load more", if you're working on a comment, or editing, and somebody way up above adds something (and the whole page shifts down, what you were writing will disappear forever. I always make sure whatever I'm writing is well up in the body of the whole feed. Substack is far from perfect and can get a bit squirrelly sometimes, but in my experience it rarely eats what I'm writing. One CAN always write your comment on Notebook or Word (on PCs) or whatever and then copy & paste the whole thing into the comments section at one go. The word processing functions of your computer can be a little easier to deal with sometimes than Substack!
200 Republicans voted for jj. How frightening!
Some may have even voted for him reluctantly, perhaps not fearing for their jobs, but for their lives, or for those of their families. They may not have wanted to appear on some "hit list" on Truth Social by Gag Man.
My rep voted for Jordan. He is only interested in his personal political career. He is part of the sedition caucus, votes in lockstep with the FRG, and does NOTHING to help my rural district.
Pretty ignorant to be afraid of this jerk BUT will allow him to be speaker of the house & in "charge"? Might say short term thinking.
Thank you, Georgia for giving us both the list and locations of the adult Republicans, and for whom they voted. I hope the 119th Congress will see the end of most of the squalling toddlers.
Makes you wonder how does Jordan's district keep electing him. He does nothing but perform for right wing media. He is a waste of a salary.
Thank You Georgia. So, not surprisingly, my Republican oil-owned seditionist congressman, representing northern Michigan and the U.P., voted for Jordan the seditionist. But, the tide may be turning! Last night here in "red" Traverse City, Dr. Heather Cox Richardson spoke to our sold out crowd about her book "Democracy Awakening!" We are inspired to work even harder to oust Rep. Bergman. Thomas Paine would be so proud!
Darn it! I didn't know! Some of our very best friends live in TC and would have loved to hear her in person...we live in Michigan too but are out of the country right now. If I had been there I would have driven the 4 hours to see and hear her speak!
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/live/1otD0Q4r4MM?si=cZ-3p0sup3gU_Zp_
Thank you, thank you, thank you Mary Pat! I hope you were lucky enough to score a ticket or two! We (my history teacher husband and I watched the whole 1:39!) It was great!!! We are in Spain right now so, it was just such a pleasure to see the interview. I bought the book for the Kindle since bringing books back and forth are too heavy but I will definitely buy the hard copy when we come back to Michigan!
So glad to help! Yes, I scored 2 tickets. Being an NWS member meant I got an alert the minute they became available. Well worth the dues! Happy Trails to you and yours!
If it is any consolation, tickets were sold out the first day (maybe hour).
Everyone,
Please DO notice all the Hispanic and Latino last names who voted against Jim Jordan. Please DO notice who has REAL courage in America.
Next time someone disparages an immigrant in your presence, take them on directly and with gusto.
Georgia, thank you for your due diligence.
Thank you so much,Mike, for pointing this out! What a great way to fight back against the anti-immigration forces in this country.
Georgia,,
Dr. Richardson's new book, along with the 1619 Book Project, have also highlighted the important role that immigrants and descendants of former slaves have played here. They have been the champions of Democracy in this country, Dutifully slogging along at the bottom of the economic pile while keeping hope for a better future alive.
Thank you Georgia. We are watching all of this while holding our breath or alternatively gasping for air...what a circus!
Georgia, you are amazing! Thanks for the deep dive. The NY Times had intimated that the New York delegation would be unwilling to support the wrestling coach (who allowed his colleague to abuse his own students with impunity) and, being a former New Yorker of long standing, and one who lived in a Republican district, I am well aware of why that is: the Republicans in New York are in a tight spot. Most of them come from some of the poorest districts in the state (Allegany and Steuben Counties for instance) or the wealthy Long Island suburbs. They are not a unified group working toward a common goal. They are clawing to stay ahead. So between "George" Santos (George is not his real name) and the clown car act in Washington, NY Repubs are feeling (in the words of Tom Lehrer) like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
Never thought I would contact Kay Granger again about anything after she hung up on me during a phone town hall (when I said war against Iraq was folly). But I’ll try again. So surprised that she wasn’t gung ho for Jordan. She was one of the Moscow eight in July 2018.
I was thinking the same thing - Really surprised. But HAPPY to see.
She has been a chumpette all along. And she and her son are pulling a fast one with the Panther Island Project in FW. Greedy politicians have so many paths greased to get undeserved money and glory. Adding you in here Menendez
Just another nasty GOP power/money grab in Texas.....
Watching in horror at the numerous "Special Sessions" by BULLY Abbott for private and religious school choice,$8000 per child, school vouchers. Texas funds its public school's for less ($6600 ish per child)
And the BULLY has stated he will continue having Special Sessions until the issue is passed. Tell me that isn't bullying .............
One thing Texas is awash in is Texas-sized bullies. He is on a mission to destroy public schools.
TX isn't the only state involved with that plot to kill public education- NH has the Commissioner of Education, who's NEVER attended public schools and attended a conservative college, is all for school vouchers including religious ones and home schoolers. The legislature has been diverting public ed. monies to the vouchers. Unfortunately we have a Repug quadrafecta (in addition to the usual trifecta of Governor, and the two houses of the legislature, we have an Executive Council which "advises" the governor on the dispersal of funds/contracts.) We also have members of a ultra libertarian group in the legislature who don''t necessarily let it be known they belong to the group.
What a great deep dive--thank you. McCarthy and Scalise voted for Jordan?
For the first ballot. They both probably signed on for the first ballot only as a sign of "party unity". The animosity runs deep.
🙏🏼 Hoping the second ballot straightens those spaghetti spines. I’m wondering if there were any Republicans listening to Pete Aguilar’s on target speech. Ignoring common sense is what republicants do best.
The (likely) only way out of this as I see it is for 5 goppers in districts that went for Biden to switch parties and become Dems supporting Jeffries. This would likely spell the end of their career, but that may be a fait accompli anyway.
It's politics. I would have no doubt that they would find homes as appointees in a second Biden administration, ambassadors, members of commissions or appointments to various Federal agencies. There is still patronage out there in both parties.
Georgia, Yes, there is life beyond elected office if there are contacts that could be monetized. CNN, MSNBC, Blogs, books, etc. are some suggestions. Without a solid funding arm the House is a one term job so it depends on character to do the right thing. Remember when that was the central requirement a long time ago? At the moment this country is in a trough of limited commitment/dedication to sanity. God help us.
What irony. Looking back at the late sixties and early seventies when hordes of Democrats moved Republican over civil rights.
Those were pretty much unhappy (fake) Democrats for a long time anyway -- the Blue Dogs.
I called every NO vote on Jordan yesterday.It took less than an hour and was able to speak with several “live” people who were appreciative.Some didn’t even ask where I live including many of the message prompts. Jess Craven/Chop Wood/Carry Water has list of phone #’s to make it easy!
⬇️
Call the “No On Jordan” Republicans 📲
https://open.substack.com/pub/chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions/p/chop-wood-carry-water-1017-27e?r=fqsxl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
This is the direct link to the list:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AX1ejXbIc-jFDbSNIaN6WTdjV5pp3BH4Ou4XZuGgpbo/edit
Is is okay if I post this link on FB? I don't think your name will be attached to it.
👍
Great work, Georgia. It is well appreciated by me.
Bacon, R, Ne. seems like he might have some sanity. I think it's also notable that every Ohio republican congress critter voted 'for' Jordan. *Thanks Georgia...
I can see the Dems campaign message in Ohio for 2024,
"Your President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown stand behind our Democracy with sanity and maturity - and firmly against the clown car driven by Republican leaders (State Prez candidate) and Rep. Congressional leader Jim Jordan."
Screen shows these faces driving the clown car of elephants ....
Gym's district is so gerrymandered it looks like the archetypal lizard - oh, that HE is!
Georgia, thank you for posting the CNN list of the 20.
Among the Latina & Latino Representatives (Reps Nos: 2,4,7, & 8) is MARIO DIAZ-BALART who has signaled his current willingness to work with D's to elect the Temporary House Speaker to revive the House after the 14 Day Shutdown Note, also, that the 2nd round of the R vote for Speaker scheduled for 4:30 PM Eastern yesterday was cancelled simply because,Jordan the does NOT have the needed 217 votes.
Note, that Rep #9, the very "conservative" Fort Worth, TX-R. Chairwoman, KAY GRANGER, of the House Appropriations Committee has watched her House budget work trashed.
Note also, the extreme personal pressures & a personal toll on R-House Representatives as DEBBIE LESLIE, will announced she will NOT run again for her R-AZ seat so there is NO leverage on her.
The House quorum will be called TODAY at 11 am Eastern. There are other strategies at play.
UPDATE: Per NBC, Former Speakers Boehner ,& Gingrich now back voting for the current Temporary.Speaker.
For the record, Debbie LESKO, R-AZ is the one who will retire from Congress at the end of her term.
Can you cite sources for this.|? What I found in yesterday's research was that Victoria Spartz who was born in Ukraine was the only Representative who had announced that she was not seeking re-election. Of course things are changing quickly.
I found the news about Debbie Lesko at apnews.com. Also, the Phoenix newspaper is already reporting about the questionable characters who are lining up to run for her seat. See azcentral.com
I like Spartz. She is quite smart. Her district is mostly farmland so those folks are mostly hard liners and hard to convince unless there are Ag issues involved. That is the most difficult segment to penetrate with a world view. They have limited education beyond HS and focus is limited as well. GOP has done their job well since the 70s to isolate those folks who are hard to reach beyond the church.
Thank you Mary, LESKO.
Thanks.
Thanks, so much, Georgia, for researching, evaluating, and sharing this important information with us.
Does this mean that the 3 non-voting representatives of Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa, all voted for Jordan? Excellent post by the way. It is sad and very disconcerting that the Republican Caucus can't even get their preferred leaders to run for House Speaker.
The "non-voting" Republican delegates can vote in the Republican conference to choose their nominee for Speaker, but they do not have a vote in the House as a whole.