Hearing the Falconer #48 ~ 7-June-2019 ~ The Strange Run of Richard Ojeda

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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7-June-2019:
The Strange and Short Run of Richard Ojeda.
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One Democratic candidate for 2020 has already come and gone!

Richard Ojeda served in the army for 24 years, rising from enlisted soldier to the rank of Major, which sounds like a pretty good career. His political career didn't go so well.

He lost a race for the House of Representatives in 2014. In 2016 he was elected to the West Virginia State Senate, while supporting Bernie in the Democratic primaries and then voting for Trump in the general election.

In 2018 Ojeda lost another race for the House of Representatives. On November 12, 2018 he declared he was running for President. Then, on January 14, 2019 he resigned from the State Senate to focus on running for President but, within a few days, he tried unsuccessfully to rescind his resignation, and then, dropped out of the race on January 25!

Ojeda supported a teacher's strike in West Virginia, supported the legalization of marijuana, and Medicare for all. He said he was personally pro-life but supported abortion rights.

So that was the strange run of Richard Ojeda.

Next time we will get back to a Democrat who is still running.

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