Post by ck4829 on Feb 10, 2022 12:23:27 GMT
Ron Johnson Breaks His Term-Limit Pledge in Order to Keep Serving the billionaire class
Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin senator who has caused jaws to drop by promoting Covid vaccine skepticism while at the same time suggesting that gargling with mouthwash might help beat the virus, is running for reelection after pledging to quit at the end of his current term.
Johnson broke his promise not with an apologetic announcement in the state the scandal-plagued Republican is supposed to represent—and where breaking the term-limit pledge was sure to get him called out as a political perjurer—but in his political safe space on the op-ed pages of Australian-born media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal.
There, with the headline, “Why I’m Seeking a Third Senate Term,” and the subhead, “I’d like to retire, but I think the country is in too much peril,” Johnson made mendacious excuses for his infamy...
Wisconsinites who had paid attention to Johnson’s lies during the course of his first term as a rubber stamp for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were always skeptical about the millionaire politician’s 2016 promise to give up his seat in 2022. Johnson was already showing signs of an addiction to the spotlight. He especially liked it when that spotlight was shined on him by Donald Trump (the senator once suggested that he and the 45th president could campaign together as “The Ronald and The Donald”) and Fox News hosts such as Maria Bartiromo, whose Sunday morning show the senator chose as the venue for an exclusive broadcast interview following the publication of his announcement screed by the Journal.
www.thenation.com/article/politics/ron-johnson-reelection/
Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin senator who has caused jaws to drop by promoting Covid vaccine skepticism while at the same time suggesting that gargling with mouthwash might help beat the virus, is running for reelection after pledging to quit at the end of his current term.
Johnson broke his promise not with an apologetic announcement in the state the scandal-plagued Republican is supposed to represent—and where breaking the term-limit pledge was sure to get him called out as a political perjurer—but in his political safe space on the op-ed pages of Australian-born media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal.
There, with the headline, “Why I’m Seeking a Third Senate Term,” and the subhead, “I’d like to retire, but I think the country is in too much peril,” Johnson made mendacious excuses for his infamy...
Wisconsinites who had paid attention to Johnson’s lies during the course of his first term as a rubber stamp for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were always skeptical about the millionaire politician’s 2016 promise to give up his seat in 2022. Johnson was already showing signs of an addiction to the spotlight. He especially liked it when that spotlight was shined on him by Donald Trump (the senator once suggested that he and the 45th president could campaign together as “The Ronald and The Donald”) and Fox News hosts such as Maria Bartiromo, whose Sunday morning show the senator chose as the venue for an exclusive broadcast interview following the publication of his announcement screed by the Journal.
www.thenation.com/article/politics/ron-johnson-reelection/