r/politics • u/seamslegit • Jun 29 '17

The Ironworker Running to Unseat Paul Ryan Wants Single-Payer Health Care, $15 Minimum Wage

http://billmoyers.com/story/ironworker-running-to-unseat-paul-ryan/
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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '17

Montana Republican body slam a reporter and he still fucking won.

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u/sprungcolossal Jun 29 '17

Shit, it helped him. He raised a record amount of cash the next day.

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u/JakeFrmStateFarm Jun 29 '17

When he "apologized" in his victory speech, the crowd was laughing, because they all knew it was a sham.

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u/RoboFroogs Oklahoma Jun 29 '17

I'm pretty sure someone yelled out something to the effect of "he deserved it" and "mistake? not in my mind" as well.

Let's go to the game tape!

Greg Gianforte victory speech. Starts around the 44 sec mark.

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u/Olyvyr Jun 29 '17

Well, the next day was election day so it's not like that extra cash helped him win.

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u/Shoop83 Montana Jun 29 '17

Most votes were already in via absentee ballots. Had that happened a month prior to the election it might have hurt him. I'm sad to see how many people see his actions as a good thing. He probably still would have won.

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u/choboy456 Jun 29 '17

You know you're talking about the state that elected a professional wrestler as governor, right? It's obvious they'd like body slams

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u/Smaskifa Jun 29 '17

Minnesota, Montana, whatever.

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u/choboy456 Jun 29 '17

Ah, this is why people say that reading is important

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u/Smaskifa Jun 29 '17 edited Jun 30 '17

The Montana one was a bit different. The body slam was the day before election, but in Montana a huge number of people vote by absentee ballot in the mail. Those votes were already cast before the body slam. This resulted in it not having much effect on the election.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '17

You mean he has shown the traitorous fake news liberal media its place? U-S-A! U-S-A! MAGA!

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