Ohio State sex scandal complicates Jordan's possible Speaker bid

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Allegations that Rep. Jim Jordan failed to stop a team doctor from sexually abusing student athletes when the Ohio Republican was a college wrestling coach is complicating his possible bid for Speaker of the House.

The NBC News story dropped Tuesday just as Jordan began reaching out to GOP colleagues, urging them to ditch Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and instead back him for the top job in the House GOP conference.

Jordan, 54, the powerful founding chairman of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, has not formally announced a bid for Speaker but has said he plans to be “part of the discussion” in the race to replace retiring Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) after the fall midterm elections.

Three former wrestlers at Ohio State University (OSU) told NBC News that Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, sexually molested teammates when he served as the team doctor from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. It would have been impossible for Jordan not to have known about the abuse, the wrestlers told the news outlet.

One of Jordan’s former wrestlers, Dunyasha Yetts, said he and his teammates personally complained to Jordan and others about Strauss’s inappropriate behavior many times. But some Jordan allies cast doubt about the credibility of his accusers. Yetts, a former wrestling champ, spent 18 months in prison for bilking investors out of nearly $2 million.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/395461-ohio-state-sex-scandal-complicates-jordans-possible-speaker-bid?userid=229233

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Karmas a bitch

Jag-off Jimmy. Let's see how nasty you are at the NEXT hearing.

[RockRaven]

2. His speaker bid? Hell, if he didn't live in a cesspool of garbage people it would complicate

his goddamned re-election. He'd be out on his ass come November. He wouldn't even be there to try for the speaker spot.


[yes, yes I know by statute you don't have to be in the House to be the speaker, but from a practical/historical perspective you do]

[Blue_true]

3. I hope it complicates his reelection. Hopefully that pig has a Dem competing against him.

Another reason why we need to field a candidate in every race. Republicans have a big crooked streak in them and they either engage in or look the other way when gross acts are being done.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Jordan is toast.

this story will not go away. To many Big Ten Alum's know the story and OSU has a house cleaning about to happen.

[DURHAM D]

5. I think Jordan is another Dennis Haster and

the reason he has been such an ass is that the Russians have the proof.

[kimbutgar]

8. I'm getting that vibe also

He puts off that creepy aura. And wrestling .....

[Upthevibe]

6. HE. IS. HORRIBLE!!!

I would hope to NEVER see his face again. To think of him as the Speaker just repulses me. I was THRILLED when I read he may be in some kind of trouble....HE. IS. HORRIBLE. (sorry, I know I already said that but my God............)

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Figure of authority should have been more alert and listening to his charges when apparently ...

some of them came to him (Mr. Jordan) and told him of the abuse by Strauss. Of course Jordan is denying everything. Seems like too many witnesses here to easily dismiss allegations here.

[Salviati]

9. I thought that being involved in a sexual abuse scandal coaching wrestling would be a plus...

If one were looking to be the GOP speaker of the house. I mean it's practically tradition!