Portman Will Seek Re-Election Instead of Running for President
Source: Roll Call
“With the new Republican majority, I see a real opportunity over the next two years to break the gridlock in Washington and actually get things done to help Ohioans and all Americans,” Portman said in a statement Tuesday morning. “That’s where I believe I can play the most constructive role.”
Portman’s official re-election announcement likely makes the seat harder for Democrats to pick-up in 2016. With Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu projected to lose re-election in this weekend’s runoff against Rep. Bill Cassidy, Democrats will need to pick up five seats to reclaim control of the Senate.
First elected to the Senate in 2010, Portman found himself on the short list for vice president in 2012. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney ultimately selected Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., but Portman still played a role in the race by advising Romney on the campaign.
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Who've we got to run against him? The slate in Ohio was pretty weak this year.
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Lost opportunities . . .
Well Ohio, here a rant and here is your golden opportunity to begin the process of re-building your state from a has been operation to a economic engine it once was, thanks to some semblance of a having union(s) in your state, but since you have a right wing governor and a right wing legislature you will soon have the makings of being rated like a third world country.
What has this right wing hypocrite and his agenda really done for you in the state?
Namely has he introduced any legislation to take your tax dollars and give it back to you in the way of re-building your dangerous bridges (9.1% deemed as dangerous) and your decrepit roads or has he blamed your state and its citizens by giving your money to someone that is doing nothing except getting more wealthy and powerful.
I lets talk about your water, what has this hypocrite done in the way of you not getting a green slime on one of your great lakes, has he done anything, haven't heard a word, except he wants to attack the EPA, well I guess you better start stocking up on bottled water since you have over (7) deadly toxins in your water system and this hypocrite and your other right wing hypocrites in office have done -----NOTHING, you need water to live----duh.
How about the hunger in your state, has he taken your tax dollars to help the same neighbors that live next to you get a job so that the children that go to public schools have some semblance of food in there stomach while having around 22.4 % going hungry in your state and is rated at having around 29.4% poor and hunger at some time of the day or week, nice job, with that number, since this right wing hypocrite likes to demonetizes the poor as the problem, no, its this right wing hypocrite(s) and followers of this hypocrite's agenda like this who you re-elect that is the problem, the blame is not the poor or the middle class.
Your public education system cannot sustain creating new jobs because of the lack of funding when you have a hypocrite of this ilk voting to give corporation more welfare tax breaks to not pay taxes, look no further at your corporation there in Peebles, Ohio called GE, they have paid ZERO TAXES in the last 14 YEARS, ZERO TAXES and the wealthy keep off shoring there taxes on the profits they make, great corporate citizens the same one that good old Romney and the right wing U.S. Supreme court think they are people, use the fire and police and give nothing back in return in the total aggregate of responsibilities----right----well guess what, someone has to pay and its you and the rest of us, and this hypocrite and others of this right wing agenda like your drunk Speak of the House Boehner who has done NOTHING to make things better, except spread hate and fear to justify there hypocrisy and deflect there right wing creed of disdain of more blame game to get re-elected, no wonder your state is a failure in everything.
Just to give you an example in the twisted logic of responsibility how much does your football coach at the University there in Ohio make when compared to the tuition parents have to pay to get in there children in the university on there salary?
Do you see a pattern here?
Your news media should be challenging this right wing hypocrite every day on these issues and more. But just like the 12 year KID that was killed in a Cleveland Park by two police officers shows and says something, that video is really disturbing.
You have the same issues like the incident that transpired in Ferguson, shoot first and ask questions later, and when nothing is found out to the so called justification of the killing of that young man or kid, your news media is saying nothing or investigating---why?
Your police go after the father of the kid to smear the situation in some form to justify the actions of the police---see a possible pattern here, guess what, his father had nothing to do with this killing it was two police officers, who screamed up and supposedly yelled something, when the evidence shows otherwise, why did they not park on the street when they came to the gazebo, and get out of there squad car and say "PUT YOUR HANDS UP". are the police that paranoid?
Just think he (Portman) was on a "short" list for a right wing hypocrite (Romney 47% who likes to milk the so called tax system to his benefit and shift the burden on all of us and then deflect his wealth in earned income tax credit and pay less than 9% taxes) when someone should be challenging this hypocrite so that we can all listen as he talks out of both sides of his mouth to see what his ideology is on the incident of this kid, and what has he really done for your state, because it will speak volumes of what he really wants to do for the state and the communities in the state of Ohio, because he will want to have it both ways.
Remember this is the same guy that takes $174,000 of your federal tax dollars and helped filibuster with his right wing cronies in the senate with Touché Turtle McConnell over 419 times to NOT put your state back to work and with other bills that he filibustered by him and his right wing cadre of hypocrites -----nice job, keep it up, you can now be rated like what is happening in Wisconsin (rated 49th in job growth) and other right wing states with big state deficits and falling further behind when it comes to balancing your state budget by blaming the poor and unemployed, hunger for being takers .
Your state in the last 6 election cycles has had its districts Gerrymandered to segregate the working classes into nothing except a power base designed to further the destruction in this state and others by blaming the poor and the weakened middle class for its problems, this occurs during the census and by special legislation.
To lay this issue at the feet of the Democrat party is really disingenuous on its face.
Rachel Maddow had it right in one of her segments couple of weeks ago.
There are over 36000 right wing republican controlled legislative bodies in this country, this would include the public education department, water department, Comptroller, city council you name it they have the power and are sitting on this power and what are they doing to your state and the country as a whole is frightening and all they are doing is nothing except laying blame on the poor and the unemployed, and the middle class by using fear and hate.
Presently 27 states are completely controlled by right wing republicans all they need is 11 more states to have a Constitutional Convention, think of what the Department of Education would look like if they get this Convention, EPA, Justice Department, you name it.
You have 5 sitting U.S. Supreme court justices eviscerating and making laws against what the Constitution says for them to operate under, what is really galling is that some of these right wing hypocrites go to political functions where there are corporate donors and they then pass judgment on a lawsuit being filed or having a wife on a political PAC or getting gifts.
Imagine if we had all three branches under right wing republican control of the Justice system and the nominations, we are seeing this damage now when W Bush, Reagan, Bush (read my lips) got there judges on the bench
The blame is on those that do not go to the city council meetings, school board meetings and other functions at the ground level to find out what these hypocrites are doing and challenging them on there tactics to expose them, its is not about money its about involvement.
Thom Hartmann had it right and Bernie Sanders said this this to Hartmann and he (Hartmann) has been doing saying this phrase everyday "Democracy is not a spectator sport, get involved TAG YOUR IT GET INVOLVE DEMOCRACY BEGINS WITH YOU"