With 20 members of his own party rejecting him, Jim Jordan came up short in today’s first vote to be the next speaker of the House.

But the House is expected to hold a second vote later today. (Remember that it took 15 votes over five days for Kevin McCarthy to become speaker back in January.)

So we have to keep telling Congress to keep rejecting Jim Jordan’s bid to be speaker of the House.

See my previous note (copied below) for more about why Jim Jordan should not be speaker.

And please take action again today even if you took action yesterday — Congress needs to hear from the American people before each and every vote.

Thanks!

- Robert

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The House of Representatives is expected to vote shortly on whether Jim Jordan will be speaker.

Look, it’s not like Republicans are going to nominate somebody good for the position.

But Jim Jordan is egregiously bad.

Just a few lowlights of his time so far in Congress:

In 2015, Jim Jordan co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, a far-right extremist bloc that thought congressional Republicans needed to be even more obstructionist, reactionary, and fascistic than they already were throughout the Obama presidency.

Jim Jordan co-sponsored a resolution for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

Last year, Jim Jordan called it “another lie” when reports emerged that a 10-year-old girl from Ohio (the state Jordan represents) had to travel to Indiana for a legal abortion after she was raped. A suspect was arrested and confessed to raping the girt twice, and police verified that the girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion.

Jim Jordan is MAGA through and through. He has operated as one of Donald Trump’s most sycophantic acolytes in Congress — including adoption and promotion of the Big Lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump.

Jim Jordan should not be given the speaker’s gavel unless the only thing he’s going to do with it is knock himself unconscious.

Tell Congress:

Do not make Jim Jordan speaker of the House.

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Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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