Vote NO for Jim Jordan as Speaker

I don’t often write about politics because there is already a lot of political conversation on both sides but every once in a while I can’t help myself and this happens to be one of those times. I should be clear, I NEVER liked McCarthy as Speaker of the House, and I felt the same when Representative Steve Scalise was first mentioned as the next Republican Party nominee for Speaker.

However, with Jim Jordan now emerging as the frontrunner to be nominated by House Republicans I wanted to express why I hope the 15 or so Republicans representing districts won by Joe Biden will come together to vote NO and block his nomination.

Jim Jordan has been very vocal, promoting conspiracies about the 2020 election and one should assume in the upcoming Presidential election (if Speaker) he will continue to fan those flames of half-truths and not certify election results he opposes.

Politics aside, the idea that someone in a position of power would / could reject or refuse to certify election results — something I believe Jim Jordan has said multiple times that he wished had happened in the 2020 elections — I find upsetting to contemplate.

I don’t want to see the US House of Representatives without a Speaker, but I would prefer that to have Jim Jordan as Speaker. I would like to see the Democratic Party run advertisements in districts currently represented by Republicans but won by Joe Biden in 2020, encouraging their voters to contact their representative to ask him/her to vote NO for Jim Jordan as the next Speaker of the House.