Posted on 02/18/2022 9:55:34 AM PST by RandFan
He called Black Lives Matter activists “thugs.” He called “the transgender movement” “insane.” He called Covid-19 “a bioweapon manufactured by the Chinese Communist Party” to defeat Donald Trump. He talked about the “seep” of “illegals” at the border, describing the emigration of Haitians, Hondurans, Mexicans and Guatemalans as an “invasion” “funded” by George Soros, “orchestrated” by Barack Obama and “enabled” by Joe Biden. He said he didn’t believe in the separation of church and state because “there’s no such thing.” And he suggested he didn’t need or even want traditional GOP support. He made a fist and patted his chest at his heart.
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Mandel is 44 years old, still baby-faced, and yet he’s been a ubiquitous presence in politics in Ohio since he was in college. He’s been a relentless climber, a tireless networker, note-writer and door-knocker, an obvious striver who stair-stepped at least at the start in a methodical, traditional and even admirable way. According to interviews with more than 75 people — who have worked for him or against him or both, who like him or don’t like him or used to — Mandel has been nothing if not an eager reader and rider of political currents. And that, they say, has made Mandel a singularly vivid lens through which to chart the deep, rattling changes in politics, in Ohio, on the right and overall, over the course of this last quarter-century.
He doesn’t act the way he used to act, say so many Democrats and Republicans alike. And they’re right. He used to present as more moderate, used to preach bipartisanship and diversity and civility, and no longer does. Perhaps most importantly, he once was conspicuously unsupportive of Trump, and now he has publicly pivoted to full-fledged MAGA.
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Where is he getting the money from?
He says all the right words. Will he back them up, as Trump did his?
The only way we'll be rid of them is by demanding TERM LIMITS.
A few of the career politicians are constitutionalists who put America first, but TOO FEW.
I’m voting for him. However, if he really is one of us the Ohio GOP will turn against him.
Couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Go Gibbons. Sorry, Josh.
I believe it was for seasonal workers not IT ones?
He put his name to a letter
Someone should ask him about it
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