Gym Jordan: The Perfect Time to Call Your Republican Representative

Every time I write a call your member of Congress post in support of some liberal cause, I hear from readers who tell me it won’t do any good since they live in such a red district. Well, now you can do your country a favor and call your Republican member of Congress, which doesn’t mean you can’t call your Democratic member, though, and tell them in no uncertain terms that you don’t want Gym Jordan to be Speaker of the House.

Here’s the layout of the post, and the beauty part is, you can jump to any one of them just like clicking on a link!

• First, we articulate the issues.
• Second, the script for a call is given, which can be adapted to a postcard, email, or social media post.
• Third, tips for the call and contacting your MoC are given.
• And fourth, resources for locating the contact information for your MoC is given.

How Could Anyone Possibly Think Gym Jordan Would Make An Adequate Speaker of the House?

Seriously, is there anyone, including Jordan’s mother and himself, think that he will actually make an adequate Speaker? No one does. He doesn’t have the character, personality, smarts, or grit to do the job. At least McCarthy had the organizational skills to deploy surrogates on his behalf. Jordan either lacks those skills or has no surrogates. Either way, it is disqualifying. Here’s the kicker: his lack of political skill is his BEST qualification to be Speaker.

Let’s stroll through the others:

1 HE’S A LITERAL GROOMER. As if anyone could ever forget the incident that put the gym in Gym Jordan. Jordan is such an upstanding character, as assistant coach of the Ohio State wrestling team, he ignored the sexual abuse of his players. Of course, Jordan denies the allegations. Of course he does. Of course. He doesn’t even have the decency to be ashamed of his lack of moral character and fortitude. He doesn’t worry about how he will be perceived, what his peers and neighbors will think of him… what his mother will think of him. He is the embodiment of the Republican norm of lying when the truth is inconvenient and never letting morality get in the way of promoting their short-term self-interest.

“Jim Jordan called me crying, crying, groveling, on the Fourth of July … begging me to go against my brother, begging me, crying for half an hour. That’s the kind of cover-up that’s going on here.” Adam DiSabato told members of the Ohio House Civil Justice Committee.

DiSabato called Jordan a “liar” on Tuesday and insisted that, “He’s throwing us under the bus, all of us. He’s a coward.”

Ex-OSU wrestler: Rep. Jordan called ‘crying, groveling, begging’ to deny sexual abuse claims in USAToday

Can you imagine being a member of a team and not doing everything you could to protect your players and team mates from real psychological harm? Can you imagine having a masters in education as Jordan does from OSU no less, and understanding the principle of safeguarding students as Jordan apparently doesn’t. I guess he missed that class because he was attended the conservative seminar on myopic self-preservation.

What a fucking piece of work you have to be to elevate yourself over your vulnerable wards and when exposed for it, not slink into some hole and hope everyone forgets. Instead you keep the issue hot by elevating your bloated ego ever higher in the public realm.

They call Democrats groomers. It’s always projection with these yahoos, isn’t it?

2 HE HAS A LONG HISTORY AS A LEGISLATIVE BOMB THROWER. Of course, we mean that figuratively. It would take real balls to throw an actual bomb to further anarchy. Balls that, no one needs to point out, but we will, Jordan doesn’t have. Being ballless and spineless are just two of his more attractive qualities. He also has a legislative record equal to none:

• A founding member of the Freedumb Cockups
• Forced John Boehner out as Speaker of the House
• Caused the government shutdown of ’13. Can we start naming these shutdowns like we name storms, but instead of just random names, the name of the asshole most responsible for them? You know, the Jordan-Cruz Shutdown of ’13.
• Never passed any legislation
• Appeared on Fox News more than any other sitting member of Congress

“Jim Jordan especially, my colleague from Ohio,” he [John Boehner] replied. “I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart ― never building anything, never putting anything together.”

Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner calls fellow Republican Jim Jordan a ‘political terrorist’ on Business Insider

Apparently, Jordan has never met a deal that he wouldn’t rather destroy than make, which is not exactly what you want in the Speaker of the House, is it?

3 HE IS A CERTIFIED INSURRECTIONIST. While no one knows exactly which Congressional members Jack Smith is allegedly contemplating indicting, we do know that the list of evidence of Gym Jordan being in the vanguard of the authoritarian overthrow of our government and gutting of our democracy is long, long, long. Here’s a sampling of the ways Jordan has damaged our government and way of life:

• He voted against certifying Biden’s win on 6 January.
• Defied a subpoena from the 6 January committee and blew off their deposition.
• Texted Mark Meadows on 5 January 2021 that Pence should declare all the electoral votes that have been identified as suspect as not being electoral votes
• On 2 January 2021, he hosted a conference call with Trump and his Congressional co-conspirators on strategies for delaying the certification of the votes, including encouraging MAGA to march on the Capitol.
• Denies ever having said that the election was stolen, but refuses to state unequivocally that Biden won the presidency.
• Believes that it is impossible for Trump to have lost when (a) Trump won nine million more votes in 2020 than he got in 2016 and (b) the Republicans gained seats in the House. Hunh?
• Signed an amicus brief to support a law suit trying to overturn the 2020 election
• He sought pardons from Trump for Members of Congress. In case, Jordan missed it, he didn’t get a pardon. I guess we can call him Patsy Jordan from now on. Maybe it will be his drag queen name.

“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all…”

Fact-checking Jim Jordan’s letter to the Jan. 6 committee on CNN

This is no time to sit on the sidelines. This is the time to tell your representative in the House that you have their back and they should not elect Jim Jordan as Speaker. When they’re getting credible death threats from the flying monkey squad — threats that kept Republican Senators from voting to convict Trump in his impeachment, we have to act to support our Representatives in doing the right thing and standing up to authoritarianism.

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The Script for Calling Your MoC

When you call your MoC, you should be prepared just in case someone actually answers or their voice mail isn’t “full.” Use a script. You want to be succinct and clear, and you don’t want to miss anything. Here’s a suggestion:

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [STATE and LOCALITY].

I’m calling today to urge you to vote against Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House. We cannot have a Speaker who openly supported insurrection on 6 January and denies the integrity of our elections. Jim Jordan has proven over and over again that he does not have the character to be Speaker. He has never even passed a piece of legislation! He cannot work across the aisle with Democrats or even with more moderate members of his own party.

We cannot have a person as Speaker who doesn’t have the integrity or moral wherewithal to speak out against on going sexual abuse. Don’t be intimidated by the bullying tactics of Jordan and his allies or the threats from his supporters. Jim Jordan should not and cannot be Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Thank you for your time and attention.

IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied.

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Tips for Calling

When you call your representative’s office, please remember the following:

• Only contact YOUR MoC! They only listen to their constituents and dismiss requests from non-constituents. Ask for the aide working on the policy-related issues.
• Be polite! No matter whose office you’re calling. No matter what their positions are. No matter how inflamed you are about the issue — and you should be very passionate — be polite.
• Remember that the people you are talking to are people! So, be nice.
• Call during business hours of the area code their office is in. Typically, that is 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
• Have a script or notes to follow so you don’t forget anything.
• Call with friends, you know like a party.

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Contacting Your MoC

Find out how to contact your MoC using these links!

• Common Cause will give you the names, party affiliation, direct phone number, website link, and social media platforms of all of your federal, state, and local elected officials.
• GovTrack gives you the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and X-itter handles of your senators and representative. It is pretty straightforward and easy to use. Just plug-in your address. You can also track legislation.
• USA.gov is the official guide to information and services of the US government. This page explains clearly how to contact everyone from the President to your Representative to specific government agencies. Through it you can find the following information about your MoC’s:
  • Their phone numbers: DC and state offices
  • Their mailing addresses both in DC and their state offices
  • Official website with their contact page including email, request a meeting, town hall schedules, and social media
  • And, the committees they sit on
• 5 Calls: Sign-up for 5 Calls because they help you contact your member of Congress and keep you abreast of on going issues that are important to you! Now, that is a good deal.
• The Capital Hill Switch Board: (202) 224-3121.

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Follow the link to Indivisible to find a group near you, their campaigns, events in your neighborhood, and download their handy-dandy booklet!

Image Attribution

“The Face of the Republican Party: “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide,” Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan” by outtacontext is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.