Posted on 01/28/2022 10:52:28 AM PST by T Ruth
Morgan Harper [D] and Josh Mandel [R], two U.S. Senate candidates in Ohio, faced each other in a debate Thursday moderated by Cassie Young, managing director at Matter News, a nonprofit news organization, and Daniel Wolvin, state director at Awake America Ohio, a religious organization focused on politics.
The debate, which was held at North Columbus Baptist Church, started energetically as the candidates discussed hot topics involving the environment, the natural rights of American citizens and racial equity, among other topics.
When the candidates received a question about the growing fossil fuel industry, Mandel expressed his support for that movement.
“People don’t realize this, but if you took the state of Ohio, the state of Pennsylvania and the state of West Virginia and you combined our three states into a region, that region would be the third largest producer of natural gas in the entire world,” Mandel said. “These are assets, not liabilities.”
Harper, on the other hand, said it is important for government elected officials to focus on solving and addressing the climate crisis, instead of accepting money from the companies she believes have been “trying to mislead us.”
Harper is a big supporter of renewable energy, considering her belief that it presents a huge economic opportunity for the state by creating incentives and investments to create jobs within the state in the clean energy sector that people could work in with just a high school degree. The state needs to be investing in renewable energy and creating as many jobs as possible in the state, she said.
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Climate change? NON starter. ‘Fossil’ fuels? Weren’t that much flora and fauna and dinosaurs. Racial equity? Racism exists but not to the extent libs make it out be. Next subject........
Actually, it’s kind of presumptuous, IMHO. Get to first base before running to third base.
I’m suspicious of Mandel as an Establishment favorite, especially when the media try to paint JD Vance out as anti-Trump, when he’s not.
There is a much higher percentage of racists among blacks than there is among whites. Everyone knows this.
Did Vance vote for Trump?
Of course, the usual Demoscat vote rigging in Ohio will happen.
I'll have to see if it will make that much of a difference, using my Obama Vote Fraud Luminol tool.
I have no doubt he did in 2020. He wasn’t on board at first, but he’s been solid since he came around, and I think he’s part of Thiel & Blake McMaster’s crew for getting MAGA candidates in vs the McConnell/Bush/Cheney faction.
Masters
shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You’ll give away the secret.
Good for him! If ONLY one of them would say “Global warming / climate change is a hoax and we shouldn’t spend a single dime on it. Enough is enough. We’ve spend $500 billion on “green energy” subsidies and “climate research” to date and have nothing to show for it. There is absolutely no way that wind and solar can meet the energy needs of a modern civilization.”
This is amazing. I didn’t know this...”Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia combined are the third largest producer of natural gas in the entire world”
The Democrat Harper says “green energy” is “a huge economic opportunity for the state by creating incentives and investments to create jobs within the state in the clean energy sector that people could work in with just a high school degree.” That is the typical child-like Democrat belief. Breaking all the windows in town creates lots of jobs, too.
Ohio used to have LOTS of jobs that just required high school degrees in manufacturing and steel, but Democrats, their union buddies and the EPA destroyed all those jobs and sent them out of the country. Trump was highly successful in bringing them back very quickly.
Those of us who actually LIVE here in Ohio know that this poster has it exactly backwards.
Troll?
(Sundance has a word for the likes of Vance: DECEPTICON)
There's a little bit of that, but I think overriding that is the idea that the candidate is not afraid to appeal to the whole electorate instead of staying comfortable among like-minded folks. It makes both candidates seem stronger for the general election -- assuming they're not fringe candidates, which in this case they're not -- at least Mandel is the current front-runner on the R side.
I'm open to evidence, but calling longtime freepers trolls makes you look more suspicious.
And welcome to FR!
The vast majority of whites wish race would go away—and that they could treat everyone based on the “content of their character, not the color of their skin”.
Accusing such people of racism is raw evil and a vicious slander.
A hotel has two thousand seat auditoriums. One hall features white racist David Duke, or even Ralph Northam. The other auditorium awaits Al Sharpton. Who draws the larger crowd?
Both should be ignored.
My point is that a Sharpton or Farrakhan would be populated by wall-to-wall black racists, while Duke could have a hard time filling a broom closet.
This race pisses me off so bad. I don’t know what to think about Mandel or Vance.
I feel like either one could be the next Trump, Rand Paul, Paul Gossar but I am almost just as inclined to believe either one could be the next Romney, Graham, Ernst.
Vances’ public positions are unique and very intriguing to me. I feel like he could move the Overton window in the Republican party so they can start focusing on middle class, nationalist issues and get away from corporatists globalist issues. He could be to globalism what Rand Paul is to foreign wars.
Mandel might be in the mold of MTG or Gaetz where he says what he thinks and makes strong opinions and bluster normalized. This would continue Trump’s path in breaking the fear of cancel culture and allowing leaders to actually say what they think.
On the other hand, I could see Vance bowing down to the big tech surveillance state and Mandel bowing down to the pro-Israel war lobby.
Who in the hell knows what to think???
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