Anti-gay pro-Russia California congressman Dana Rohrabacher defeated in midterms - Polidicks

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dana-rohrabacher-harley-rouda-election-2018_us_5be0e09be4b01ffb1d0556d9?utm_source=reddit.com Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a 15-term Southern California congressman known for supporting marijuana and Russian President Vladimir Putin, appears set to lose his re-election bid on to Democratic challenger Harley Rouda. Rouda declared victory on Saturday, four days after Election Day, although there are still uncounted votes in the district and The Associated Press has not yet declared a winner. The process could drag on for weeks: In California, election officials have until Dec. 7 to report final results to the secretary of state, who has an additional week to announce official winners. As of Friday, Rouda led with 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent for the incumbent. Rohrabacher, 71, had been accustomed to cruising to re-election in the affluent, conservative Orange County coastal sprawl south of Los Angeles. But Democrats made California’s 48th Congressional District a key target in this year’s midterm elections, focusing on Rohrabacher’s ties to the Kremlin, his conspiratorial statements, and his closeness with President Donald Trump, who lost the district by 2 percentage points in 2016. Rouda, 56, a wealthy real estate executive, was a registered Republican for decades and contributed to Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s 2016 presidential campaign. He aggressively courted Republicans who may have stuck by Rohrabacher over the years for low taxes, but were turned off by the rhetoric of Trump and his allies. Rouda pitched himself as a moderate, but also campaigned on progressive issues he described as common sense, including Medicare for all, tuition-free college, and a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage. He also called for more federal funding to provide housing for homeless residents — a risky move in the notoriously NIMBY district. He won support from the Indivisible progressive group and the establishment Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Rohrabacher likes to describe himself as a maverick. But these days, he’s more of a reactionary than a libertarian. He has said that homeowners shouldn’t have to sell to gay people and that climate change could have been caused by dinosaurs farting. He called the death of a protester during last year’s white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, a “total hoax” manipulated by “left-wingers.” He speculated without evidence ― falsely, it turned out ― that a shooter at YouTube’s headquarters this year was an “illegal immigrant.” He has defended Putin so frequently that Russian spies once tried to recruit him. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) joked in 2016 that both Rohrabacher and Trump were on Putin’s payroll. Orange County has been a GOP stronghold for decades, 2016 was the first time it voted Democrat for president since the 30s, and now Democrats represent the county on a level not seen since the 30s.

So both Steve Knight and this hack fraud are gone, and both in districts that have gone red many times over even in areas surrounded by blue. All I can hope is that he actually sticks to homeless housing funding (which i'm not holding my breath for because many of these california dems end up backing off on it due to, as said in the article, not-in-my-back-yard voters)

You'd have to be pretty retarded to run as anti-gay in Cali, a state so homosexual that its actually actively on fire

Imagine being named Dana and being male Wild shit, tbh

Imagine making a middle school tier joke about a guy having a name that's actually pretty common for men Much like Sasha or other similar names it's more common for people of european descent

The state sure has changed in 10 years. I remember when I was a kid and Prop 8 somehow passed

Dana is fine, but the fact that there's a short, spineless, anti-gay "bachelor" Republican man named Lindsey is irrefutable proof that we are in a simulation, or at least a Rockstar game

Imagine being named Dana and being an eight wheeled 152mm self propelled howitzer.

how heteronormative

I need one of these for my commute.

As crazy as it sounds, that might actually be possible. The Czechs are very willing to sell off their military surplus to pretty much anyone whose checks will clear (pun semi-intended) so if you look in the right place you might be able to grab one. You'll need to deactivate the guns to get it into the US though.

Bit harder than it sounds when you're broke. Sure, a T-55A battle tank for $38K sounds like a steal... IF you have the money. Though it's amusing to bring it up with friends/family who ask "But where would you even park it?" to which I respond "Where-ever the hell I want to."

THE KREMLIN GREMLIN IS GONE https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/165/d6ab5202-d273-49ec-b254-c17dda5d0e2a/rip.mp4

I hear you can find them in the automotive section of Craigslist.