After 30 Years In Congress, Dana Rohrabacher Goes Down To Defeat
Yesterday, the Associated Press called the race for Democrat Harley Rouda. Rohrabacher has not conceded yet, releasing a statement that he'll wait until all the votes are counted. But that will just prolong things, as Rouda's lead is insurmountable. And finally, after 30 years, Dana Rohrabacher will leave Congress.
Good riddance.
Source: The Guardian
The Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher would tell you he’s just a regular guy who loves his country and wishes he had more time to go surfing. But for 30 years, his southern California constituents have also dubbed him “crazy Dana”.
He’s a guy who, in the days of the Soviet Union, signed up for a week to fight alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan. A guy who, in the early 1990s, got into a drunken arm-wrestling match with a young Vladimir Putin. Putin “put me down in a millisecond”, Rohrabacher recalled years later. “His muscles are just unbelievable.”
