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blogslut

(38,007 posts)
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 09:46 PM Nov 2018

Dana Rohrabacher defeated!




Steven Shepard
@POLITICO_Steve
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 California’s 48th District.
7:39pm · 10 Nov 2018 · Twitter for iPhone
Washington, DC, United States
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Dana Rohrabacher defeated! (Original Post) blogslut Nov 2018 OP
Putins going to be pissed. Historic NY Nov 2018 #1
not until the final votes are counted. its just AP's opinion now nt msongs Nov 2018 #2
Rouda is up 4 percentage points now, 52 to 48 frazzled Nov 2018 #18
Woohoo!!!! Let's flip OC!!!! Initech Nov 2018 #3
. RandySF Nov 2018 #4
Hell Yes!! redstateblues Nov 2018 #5
Those billboards worked malaise Nov 2018 #6
Yes, and now we'll get them under oath to explain what they meant by all of this...under oath! nt SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #42
Love it malaise Nov 2018 #48
Bye bye you Russian loving ass! BigmanPigman Nov 2018 #7
Woo-hoo! Harley did it! FakeNoose Nov 2018 #8
Russiabacher can either retire to Moscow meow2u3 Nov 2018 #9
"Dana *RussiaBacker*" lastlib Nov 2018 #60
... orangecrush Nov 2018 #10
Wimp wimp malaise Nov 2018 #49
... orangecrush Nov 2018 #63
Vlad haz a Sad! AWWWwwww.....! lastlib Nov 2018 #61
Word! orangecrush Nov 2018 #62
Woohoo! Control-Z Nov 2018 #11
Congrats rufus dog Nov 2018 #29
Dana.. AZ8theist Nov 2018 #12
Once we get a Democratic President in 2020 and a functioning Justice Dept... AZ8theist Nov 2018 #13
Got to thank filthy rich Democrats for helping out Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #14
Tom Steyer gave a lot of money and time to GOTV, spooky3 Nov 2018 #25
Tom Steyer is going to be a great president. I look forward to voting for him in the 2020 primaries StevieM Nov 2018 #30
yes, like those who gave money & TIME to "Progressive Turnout project" Sunlei Nov 2018 #50
Good grief. I have millennial daughters and nieces Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #53
Thank them for me. Thank you Oprah & Obama for organizing the new PAC Sunlei Nov 2018 #54
I'm not your errand girl. Thank them yourself. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #55
I meant thank YOUR relatives- you mentioned in your post. Sunlei Nov 2018 #56
You're welcome. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #57
Woo Hoo!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 #15
another drumpf humper has destroyed his political career for drumpf Takket Nov 2018 #16
He, and all of those losers, can try to be insect exterminators. They should know the species. erronis Nov 2018 #20
Dems are literally cleaning up! mysteryowl Nov 2018 #17
The Blue Wave is on the move! DesertRat Nov 2018 #19
A sad day for Mother Russia. tanyev Nov 2018 #21
Russia's favorite congressman loses seat struggle4progress Nov 2018 #22
Investigate the hell out of this guy and if guilty, throw him in prison. UnAmerican as one ... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #43
Yea!!! pazzyanne Nov 2018 #23
All right! It's official! Goodbye to that Russian agent. nt Honeycombe8 Nov 2018 #24
And the hits just keep on coming... llmart Nov 2018 #26
I feel bad for some Republican neighbors who hate Trump. SleeplessinSoCal Nov 2018 #27
Goodbye to another filthy traitor. kairos12 Nov 2018 #28
When is Rohrabacher's sentencing? I need to be there. n/t Julian Englis Nov 2018 #31
Yay, yay, yay!!! iluvtennis Nov 2018 #32
It couldn't happen to a more evil man NastyRiffraff Nov 2018 #33
And the pendulum swings !!!! Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2018 #34
With a pleasingly sharp blade at the end. Doreen Nov 2018 #51
The derepublicanization of California continues. roamer65 Nov 2018 #35
Someone made this celebratory video. SleeplessinSoCal Nov 2018 #36
Good to have it Official.. the Traitor is Cha Nov 2018 #37
Yes! Turin_C3PO Nov 2018 #38
Great!! Meowmee Nov 2018 #39
the guy thought he would never lose. Kurt V. Nov 2018 #40
Voters of the 48th: klook Nov 2018 #41
Thank you for making my day complete!!! dixiegrrrrl Nov 2018 #44
Dos v'danye, tovarisch. ChazInAz Nov 2018 #45
Now He's Free to Move to Russia-St. Petersburg is Nice dlk Nov 2018 #46
Hurry lsewpershad Nov 2018 #47
I want the door to hit him on the behind though. Doreen Nov 2018 #52
whomp whomp... marble falls Nov 2018 #58
SWEET!!!!! calimary Nov 2018 #59
Goodbye to You BootinUp Nov 2018 #64
One less Russian agent in Congress. Enoki33 Nov 2018 #65
Good riddance to this prick Dopers_Greed Nov 2018 #66

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
18. Rouda is up 4 percentage points now, 52 to 48
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:37 PM
Nov 2018

And the more outstanding ballots that are counted the higher he goes. It was pretty clear he won on election night. They’ll count all the votes, but it’s clear the Democrat has won this election.

malaise

(269,144 posts)
6. Those billboards worked
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 09:52 PM
Nov 2018

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.

“There’s 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 McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

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meow2u3

(24,767 posts)
9. Russiabacher can either retire to Moscow
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:08 PM
Nov 2018

or face the music right here in the good old US of A. Take your pick, ya traitor!

lastlib

(23,265 posts)
61. Vlad haz a Sad! AWWWwwww.....!
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 07:13 PM
Nov 2018

It could only happen to one more-deserving pile of bovine fecal material.....

DJT, AnusMouth himself.

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
11. Woohoo!
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:11 PM
Nov 2018

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)
29. Congrats
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 12:02 AM
Nov 2018

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)
13. Once we get a Democratic President in 2020 and a functioning Justice Dept...
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:18 PM
Nov 2018

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)
14. Got to thank filthy rich Democrats for helping out
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:23 PM
Nov 2018

our first-time, self-funded candidates who didn't have a chance

spooky3

(34,463 posts)
25. Tom Steyer gave a lot of money and time to GOTV,
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 11:44 PM
Nov 2018

especially among millennials. I agree with you. It made a big difference.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
30. Tom Steyer is going to be a great president. I look forward to voting for him in the 2020 primaries
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 12:03 AM
Nov 2018

and general election.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
50. yes, like those who gave money & TIME to "Progressive Turnout project"
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 02:30 PM
Nov 2018
https://www.turnoutpac.org/

(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)
53. Good grief. I have millennial daughters and nieces
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 02:46 PM
Nov 2018

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!

Takket

(21,607 posts)
16. another drumpf humper has destroyed his political career for drumpf
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:27 PM
Nov 2018

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.

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
22. Russia's favorite congressman loses seat
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 11:06 PM
Nov 2018

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”.

He’s 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.”

He’s 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 Russia’s 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 Rohrabacher’s 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 Putin’s payroll ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/10/dana-rohrabacher-loses-congressional-seat-orange-county-russia-putin

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
43. Investigate the hell out of this guy and if guilty, throw him in prison. UnAmerican as one ...
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 01:03 PM
Nov 2018

can get. Something stinks to high heaven on this guy...

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,134 posts)
27. I feel bad for some Republican neighbors who hate Trump.
Sat Nov 10, 2018, 11:55 PM
Nov 2018

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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NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
33. It couldn't happen to a more evil man
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 12:17 AM
Nov 2018

Rohrabacher was one that I really really wanted out of there. He was trying to sell out our country, along with Trump.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
52. I want the door to hit him on the behind though.
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 02:44 PM
Nov 2018

Of I mean hard enough to plant his skidding face on Russian ground when he lands there.

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