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Last night, Ohio's senior U.S. senator, @SenSherrodBrown (D), was called "a complete ass" by his colleague Sen. @tedcruz (R-Texas).

The reason?

Brown asked @SenDanSullivan (R-Alaska) to keep his mask on while presiding over the Senate during the pandemic.
This started with @SenSherrodBrown speaking on the Senate floor Monday evening.

Here's his full exchange with @SenDanSullivan, who told Brown, "I don’t need your instruction."
Since at least June, @SenSherrodBrown has been one of the few U.S. senators to keep a mask on while speaking on the Senate floor.

In October, Brown expressed frustration that Senate workers who sit in the chamber are at risk of exposure from senators who take their masks off.
As Monday's exchange went viral, @tedcruz tweeted it was "idiotic," that @SenSherrodBrown was "being a complete ass," & that Brown was wearing a mask "as an ostentatious sign of fake virtue."

Cruz apparently missed Brown's point about the Senate workers sitting near Sullivan.
Also:

@SenSherrodBrown's wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist @ConnieSchultz, has chronic asthma.

Being extra cautious, Brown has avoided flying for months.

We even stayed masked and distanced while shooting an interview outside their home last month.
Spoke with @SenSherrodBrown this afternoon:

“When I saw [@SenDanSullivan] take his mask off, I said — and saw him speak into the microphone with four people sitting below him that didn’t deserve to have his, sorry, his spittle on them, inevitably when you talk, I spoke out."
More @SenSherrodBrown:

"Does stopping at a stop sign make you less free? Does wearing a seatbelt make you less free? Does practicing Christian values to look out for your fellow men & women, does that make you less free? So why should a mask, wearing a mask, make you less free?”

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16 Nov
Nov. 16, 2020.

—10 days until Thanksgiving
—46 days until 2021
—300 days since first #COVID19 case reported in US

Current #COVID19 figures in US, per @JohnsHopkins:
—246,953 deaths
—11,163,990 cases

The US (~4% of world’s population) makes up 18.7% of deaths & 20.4% of cases.
In encouraging pandemic news:

Within the last week, two experimental #COVID19 vaccines have produced results showing they are 94.5% and 90% effective, based on preliminary data.

Via @AP:

apnews.com/article/2nd-vi…
In discouraging pandemic news:

The @washingtonpost reported that @realDonaldTrump "has not attended a coronavirus task force meeting in 'at least five months,' said one senior administration official with knowledge of the meetings..."

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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16 Nov
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As of Nov. 16 at 2pm ET, only two of Ohio's 13 Republicans in Congress have acknowledged (either in public remarks or statements sent to me) that @JoeBiden is the president-elect.

The @AP and other major news organizations called the race nine days ago.
On Nov. 9, I reached out to all 13 Republicans in Ohio's congressional delegation with two questions:

1) Do you recognize the results of the election, as projected by the @AP and other major news organizations?

2) Do you agree that @JoeBiden is now President-elect Biden?
As of 2pm ET on Nov. 16, four Ohio Republicans in Congress have not responded to my questions or made public remarks that I've seen about the presidential race:

#OH1's @RepSteveChabot
#OH5's @boblatta
#OH10's @RepMikeTurner
#OH12's @RepBalderson
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12 Feb
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New:

This morning I spoke w/ Ohio Republican @senrobportman about impeachment. It was my first opportunity to ask him Qs on-camera about the Senate trial.

Here's the unedited video of our 8-minute conversation, along w/ an annotated transcript:
spectrumnews1.com/oh/cincinnati/…
@senrobportman Throughout the Senate trial, I documented my attempts to speak w/ @senrobportman in this thread ⤵️

He's cofounder & co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus & was one of the last known senators to speak w/ @realDonaldTrump before Ukraine aid was released.

@senrobportman @realDonaldTrump I had covered when @senrobportman released a statement explaining he'd vote against witnesses:



And I covered his floor speech last week announcing why he'd vote to acquit @realDonaldTrump:

spectrumnews1.com/oh/cincinnati/…
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21 Aug 19
So, over the weekend I finished reading the Mueller report.

All 448 pages.

I'm far from the first person to read it, but I know not everyone has — or will.

It's very easy in today's political climate to forget about the report's findings, so I want to highlight my top 24.
1) “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion."
2) “Although the investigation established that the Russian gov't perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency...and...the Campaign expected it would benefit...the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated w/ the Russian[s]"
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25 Jan 19
If you’re just waking up, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office has announced that Roger Stone, a longtime associate of @realDonaldTrump, was arrested this morning for seven counts:

- Obstruction of an official proceeding
- Five counts of false statements
- Witness tampering
Here is the 24-page indictment outlining the charges against Roger Stone:

justice.gov/file/1124706/d…
From pg 2: In “summer of 2016, STONE spoke to senior Trump Campaign officials about [WikiLeaks] & information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign. STONE was contacted by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases by [WikiLeaks].”
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