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How does a barkeep's son from Reading, Ohio end up the second most powerful man in Washington, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives? How does that happen? ....
In an interview days before the release of his book On the House: A Washington Memoir, Boehner I don t think it was just about him showing up at a rally on Jan. 6th, Boehner told USA Today. The comments that were made all summer about the election was going to be stolen from him, all the follow-up noise that occurred after the election – I kept looking for the facts. ADVERTISEMENT What struck me, especially after the election, was, here s all these people loyal to Donald Trump, and he abused them, Boehner added. He stepped all over their loyalty to him by continuing to say things that just weren t true. ....
CBS News John Boehner: Many in GOP today believe more in making noise than in making policy Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner is making big waves with his new Washington memoir in which he takes on many members of his own party, whom he calls crazies. In his book, On the House (which goes on sale Tuesday), Boehner writes about the changes in the Republican Party and how, in his years as speaker, he was serving as the mayor of Crazytown, owing to jackasses and media hounds within the GOP. By 2013, he writes, the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks to fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising. ....
Bay Area political events: Pandemic and voting, Ruth Bader Ginsburg s legacy Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: MONDAY COVID relief: A town hall on efforts to combat the health and economic impacts of the pandemic in the South Bay with Santa Clara County Supervisor Otto Lee and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Fremont. 5:30 p.m. More information is here. WEDNESDAY Pandemic and voting: How California changes to facilitate mail voting and accommodate in-person balloting during the pandemic affected turnout, with Public Policy Institute of California researcher Eric McGhee. 11 a.m. More information is here. ....
The dust jacket of former Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) upcoming memoir reveals some of the shots he takes at several prominent Republicans, including former President Trump and Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mitch McConnell (K.Y.) ....