OPINION:
Jim Jordan Can’t Outrun A Dark Past
Ohio Rep, Jim Jordan, is candidate for the Speaker of the House. He is once again under fire for his failure to report or intervene in multiple cases of sexual abuse while he was an assistant coach at Ohio State University.
OPINION:
Shameful, “Betrayal”
Back In Time
A former Ohio State University wrestler, one of several, who have accused (R) Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan of failing to stop a sexual predator when he was the team’s assistant coach in the 1980s and ’90s said recently Jordan has no business being the next speaker of the House.
Many More
That former wrestler, Mike Schyck asked quite pointedly, “Do you really want a guy in that job (Speaker of the House) who chose not to stand up for his guys?” Schyck is one of hundreds of former OSU athletes and students who claim to have been sexually abused by school doctor Richard Strauss and have sued the university.
Pardon Please
To be clear, Jordan is not a nice guy. He is a loud mouth bomb thrower, a destructionist, and an election (2020) denier. This fraud, I mean Mr. Jordan, refused to respond to a subpoena from the House’s January 6th Committee investigating election interference. Jordan was so conscious of his guilt he asked Donald Trump, before he left office, to pardon all his activities to overturn the 2020 election.
A Dirty Past
A staunch ally of former President Trump, Jordan’s controversial past has once again reared its ugly head. In fact, it is likely that Jordan will be deposed in one or more of the several lawsuits surrounding the sexual abuse at the school. Whoever becomes Speaker of the House is also second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president. Is there anyone in this country that wants to back a man who was such a craven coward he let the abuse of one doctor affect the lives of hundreds of young people?
Lies And Hypocrisy
Another former OSU wrestler, Dunyasha Yetts, has loudly and publicly accused Rep. Jordan of lying about his knowledge of Dr. Strauss’ pedophilia and his abhorrent acts against minors. Yetts said in a recent interview that the congressman’s “hypocrisy is unbelievable. He doesn’t deserve to be House Speaker. He still has to answer for what happened to us.”
“Abandoned”
Rocky Ratliff, a former OSU wrestler and alleged Strauss victim, now an attorney representing a number of the plaintiffs suing the school, said Jordan “abandoned his former wrestlers in the Ohio State sexual abuse scandal and cover-up.” The University, has to date, paid over $60 million dollars to 296 victims.
MAGA
Jordan has used his role as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to aggressively investigate Hillary Clinton for Benghazi before the 2016 presidential election. He is now clamoring for the jailing of Hunter Biden and the impeachment of President Joe Biden. Jordan has advocated shutting down the damn government for no good purpose; other than to cost the American tax payers billions of dollars.
Conclusion
Wednesday morning October 18th, 2023, I watched on television the vote for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. After Jordan failed for a second time in his effort to be elected by his party I breathed a sigh of relief. Hopefully, he will not continue the fight, but it sounds like he and his allies intend to threaten members of the Republican caucus with death and dismemberment if they don’t fall in line and elect Jordan Speaker of the House. This man is a disgrace. The thought of him ever ascending to the presidency after some calamity is hair raising. Stop Jim Jordan.
