Next in the series of winnable progressive contests left in the primary is Morgan Harper (@mh4oh) challenging Rep. @JoyceBeatty in Columbus, Ohio. If you go to OSU or live in the district you have a few more days to get a ballot and vote: theintercept.com/2020/04/16/ohi…
Harper was born in Columbus into foster care and raised by a single mom there. When she announced her run and identified with the Squad, Democrats in Congress assumed she had been recruited and backed by Justice Democrats & @AOC, which wasn’t true
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As @rmc031 has previously reported, Columbus has an interesting insurgent movement challenging gentrification and the local machine, which Beatty is a major part of theintercept.com/2017/10/05/col…
Beatty is a very normal Democrat: Mostly votes with the party, leans toward banks in Washington and developers back home. In 2013, she and her husband did this: theintercept.com/2020/03/03/joy… 
After the 2010 Census, Republicans gerrymandered the Columbus district to help elect Beatty theintercept.com/2020/03/03/joy…
In 2008, the Dispatch reported, she and her husband tried to pressure the city to buy a property of theirs dispatch.com/article/200802…
After representing Columbus, home of OSU, in the state House, she falsely claimed to have a PhD and got a lucrative job with OSU. She used to ask people to call her Dr. Beatty, but now acknowledges she did not complete a dissertation. theintercept.com/2020/03/03/joy…
In another bizarre real estate transaction, Ohio Dominican University, which gave Beatty an honorary degree, transferred a $1.05 million home to her and her husband, also a former state Rep., for $0, according to property records. The campaign won't comment on this transaction
Anyway, you get the picture. To vote in this election you need to have your absentee ballot application to the board of elections by April 25, as @aidachavez explains here theintercept.com/2020/04/16/ohi…
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