Indulge me. Take off your glasses, or squint, or just take a few steps back from your screen. Then scroll down and tell me if you experience the seem brief confusion I did in thinking that maybe Washington had aged our Congressman and convinced him to ditch the Beltway, come home, and run for mayor of a nice calm South Dakota city:
Bring Dusty to Aberdeen for a campaign event, catch him in the right light, and he might be mistaken for Aberdeen Mayor Mike Levsen, who is running for a fourth five-year term of managing the Hub City.
But it should be easy to avoid confusing the two. Mayor Levsen gets part-time wages for a job he does seemingly every day, while Congressman Johnson gets full-time wages for a job where officially clocks in for 130 days a year.
Pics of Dusty just scream “I’m a DORK!” Unlike Drumpf, this guy looks too young to be in service to America. Does he still get carded when it comes to buying alcoholic beverages?
One Term Dusty.
Dusty Johnson just doesn’t look like a Dusty should.
Hey, dorks are my people. Better than electing dumb jocks and beauty queens.
Other states are invalidating rules which favor republicans in elections. Michigan, Pennsylvania, and now Ohio whose 2012 map unconstitutionally dilutes the votes of Democratic voters by packing and cracking them into districts that are so skewed toward one party that the electoral outcome is predetermined. That appeals court 300 page decision will be appealed by Republicans.
Don’t think Rapid City’s district 33, for one, isn’t similarly corrupted. Republicans have been waging a dishonest, corrupt, all out war on the right to vote for decades. It is how people like Dusty and Kristi and Marion can expect to move up the ladder despite our candidates like Bjorkman, Wismer, Seiler and Sutton, and the many other recent qualified courageous Democratic runners. https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/05/federal-judges-toss-out-ohios-congressional-map-as-illegal-gerrymander.html
Congressmen clock in for 130 days a year????
138
Number of Days Congress Works in Session a Year. The House of Representatives has averaged 138 “legislative days” a year since 2001, according to records kept by the Library of Congress. That’s about one day of work every three days, or fewer than three days a week.Oct 4, 2018
I can see where their flapping their gums raising money and taking junkets four days a week could exhaust the little dears.
Master, aren’t you more geekish than dorkish? Geekish implies you are very good doing stuff.
Cibvet, you can check the calendar I link from Roll Call, but I counter 130 days when the House plans to be in session in 2019.
130 just seemed like an excessive amount of days to “clock in”. I guess once they make roll call, they’re free to leave unlike those of us who actually labor for a living.
Moar from Roll Call- House Democrats have released the chamber’s floor schedule for 2019, which includes 130 days in session over 33 weeks and was tailored to accommodate the influx of lawmakers with young families joining the House next year.
“As we welcome a large class of new members, many with young families, next year’s schedule is focused on balancing time in Washington with time for Members to conduct work in their districts and spend time with their families,” incoming House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland said in a statement accompanying the calendar’s release.
The House will be in recess, or a “district work period,” for at least a week each month, except for June. That will be partially offset by a late summer break from the Capitol that is scheduled to go from July 29 to Sept. 6.
If only Dems could convince wingnuts to accomadate women and women’s rights, what a wonderful world this would be.
Some empathy and equity from Republicans would go a long way.