If Portman had any knowledge of what Trump and Giuliani were up to at the time (and Ukraine said some Senators were aware of it), then Portman has a huge problem to address.
This also might explain his truly bizarre behavior through all this.
Like Portman, Senator @ChrisMurphyCT traveled to Ukraine.
On Murphy’s trip, Zelensky was quite open about the situation and how confused he was. Would be odd if he hadn’t shared the same w Portman.
You want to read a Court decision absolutely throttling an out-of-control legislature that refuses follow the law but thinks Ohio voters are too dumb to figure them out?
"...the map drawers & the commission knew that their approach—starting w the invalidated map & switching competitive GOP-leaning districts to competitive Dem-leaning districts—would have the dual effect of eliminating weak GOP districts & creating weak Dem districts.
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"DiRossi and Springhetti still ultimately drafted the plan, and they answered only to Senate President Huffman and House Speaker Cupp. As before, “the commission itself did not engage in any map drawing or hire independent staff to do so.”
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Here’s LaRose promising, in 2018, that “I want my party to win elections because we have better candidates and better ideas - not because we use modern GIS mapping software…to draw district lines better than the other party.”
The rules greatly constrained what they could do re Cincinnati. Thank the voters for that, not the legislators.
The heist was in then carving Hamilton county 3 ways, carving out Dem north central parts of the county and placing them in the 8th district to offset the
Late last night, those challenging the latest round of maps filed objections which made an incredibly strong argument about how Huffman and his gang of lawbreakers once again violated the Constitution.
1. “the Commission chose once again to engage in a highly secretive, one-sided partisan process, [and] employed technical maneuvers to flout notice requirements….the Commission did not make data use relying the [plan] available until after its adoption….”
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2. In response to questions about the GOP map, “Co-chair Cupp jumped in to assert that the map-drawers had ‘given the answer that they can give’ and abruptly recessed the meeting.”
“As soon as the meeting resumed, Huffman immediately moved to adopt the [] proposal.”
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new Russia, my primary assignment for Dr. Brzezinski was to do deep and continuing research on the “new” Ukraine. It’s politics. Economics. Etc.
No one else was talking about Ukraine. But it’s all he wanted me to do.
Regular reports & a longer paper
(Before the Internet)
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He then explained it.
As he said then, Ukraine is the key. If Ukraine is a strong country that stands on its own, Russia will remain within its borders and not be tempted to return to its past expansionist ways.
But a weakened Ukraine risks an expansionist Russia
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