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Steven Shepard
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New: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) has been defeated, the @AP projects. #CA48
POLITICO elections bot @politicoelex
Harley Rouda (D) has won the race for the House seat in Californias 48th District.
7:39pm · 10 Nov 2018 · Twitter for iPhone
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(37,452 posts)msongs
(67,432 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)And the more outstanding ballots that are counted the higher he goes. It was pretty clear he won on election night. Theyll count all the votes, but its clear the Democrat has won this election.
Initech
(100,096 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)malaise
(269,144 posts)Bwaaaaaaaaaah! Down memory lane
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f34e89e5265f
KIEV, Ukraine A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Theres two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump, McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthys assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.
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SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)malaise
(269,144 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,622 posts)FakeNoose
(32,705 posts)meow2u3
(24,767 posts)or face the music right here in the good old US of A. Take your pick, ya traitor!
lastlib
(23,265 posts)There. Fixed it.
orangecrush
(19,595 posts)malaise
(269,144 posts)Thoughts and prayers,,,NOT
lastlib
(23,265 posts)It could only happen to one more-deserving pile of bovine fecal material.....
DJT, AnusMouth himself.
orangecrush
(19,595 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)That's my district. And my kids asked me if their votes would really count. My daughter was working up in LA so she had to drive all the way down here to HB, vote, and then turn around and drive back up.
They were already excited about the house turning blue. They are going to love this news!!
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)We may flip all of OC blue. Porter is eating into MeMe's lead and the 39th is going down to the wire.
AZ8theist
(5,487 posts)Move to Russia, you TRAITOROUS SCUMBAG!!!
FUCK YOU ALL THE WAY TO MOSCOW!!!!
AZ8theist
(5,487 posts)Russiabacker will be investigated and prosecuted for treason.
He will spend his last dying breaths in prison. Fuck him.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)our first-time, self-funded candidates who didn't have a chance
spooky3
(34,463 posts)especially among millennials. I agree with you. It made a big difference.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)and general election.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)(checkout the 'shop' link to see those "filthy rich Democrats" names
really though it was the millennials , and other grassroots groups who called, foot worked and VOTED. They helped bring these candidates the wins.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)who canvassed, middle aged folks like me and my sisters who phone banked and canvassed as well as drove the elderly to the polls who weren't interested in mail-in ballots, like my husband. So you're not telling me anything.
It pleases me to give thanks to people who I did not expect cared enough to overlook look their personal gain to donate huge chunks of their wealth that was definitely needed for their campaigns.
Thank you filthy rich Democrats for stepping up!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)you'all made a difference
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Happy Sunday!
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,135 posts)Takket
(21,607 posts)for the life of me i can't understand WHAT it is about drumpf that makes these people willing to lay down the careers and ever their freedom to kiss drumpf's ass, when drumpf leaves them all behind to die.
erronis
(15,324 posts)mysteryowl
(7,395 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)tanyev
(42,594 posts)struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)Andrew Gumbel
Sat 10 Nov 2018 13.38 EST Last modified on Sat 10 Nov 2018 13.40 EST
... for 30 years, his southern California constituents have .. dubbed him crazy Dana.
Hes a guy who, in the days of the Soviet Union, signed up for a week to fight alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan. A guy who, in the early 1990s, got into a drunken arm-wrestling match with a young Vladimir Putin. Putin put me down in a millisecond, Rohrabacher recalled years later. His muscles are just unbelievable.
Hes notorious for making an ill-advised link between dinosaur flatulence and global warming; for his open disdain of homosexuals and undocumented immigrants; for welcoming a notorious Holocaust denier to Washington; and for thinking that the Oklahoma City bombing widely regarded as a conspiracy of homegrown far-right radicals was an Islamist plot cooked up by Middle Eastern radicals in the Philippines.
... After 15 terms on Capitol Hill, though, he is almost certainly about to be an ex-congressman ...
He defended Russias incursion into Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014. He has consistently pushed back against sanctions and lobbied to repeal the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which imposed penalties on Russian oligarchs accused of corruption and human rights abuses.So accommodating has Rohrabacher been of Russian military aggression and policy interests that as early as 2012 the FBI warned him the Kremlin was seeking to cultivate him as an intelligence asset and had even assigned him a code name. Ed Royce, then chair of the House foreign relations committee, was alarmed enough to curtail Rohrabachers powers as head of the subcommittee dealing with Russia. Last year, the Republican majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, was caught on tape saying he believed Rohrabacher was indeed on Putins payroll ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/10/dana-rohrabacher-loses-congressional-seat-orange-county-russia-putin
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)can get. Something stinks to high heaven on this guy...
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Just did my version of a cartwheel!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)llmart
(15,548 posts)It's been like Christmas since Tuesday!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,134 posts)They didn't vote for him and Republicans lost many races in the OC. Harley is a giant step up for the 48th.
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kairos12
(12,865 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Rohrabacher was one that I really really wanted out of there. He was trying to sell out our country, along with Trump.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Donnie Dump is the Pete Wilson of America.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,134 posts)Cha
(297,474 posts)OUT!
Turin_C3PO
(14,022 posts)So freakin awesome
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)klook
(12,162 posts)Sergei Magnitsky thanks you. And I thank you.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)ChazInAz
(2,572 posts)dlk
(11,574 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)and don't let the door hit you on the backside.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Of I mean hard enough to plant his skidding face on Russian ground when he lands there.
marble falls
(57,144 posts)Excuse me: whompske whompske, tovarishch.
calimary
(81,414 posts)As the old Almond Joy commercials put it: Indescribably Delicious!
BootinUp
(47,174 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I wonder if Putin will serve him a polonium sandwich