Boehnhead Has an Opponent

This one is probably a fairly long shot. But luckily someone has stepped up to tilt at this particular orange-tinted windmill. A brave fellow named Justin Coussoule is running against John Boehner for Ohio’s 8th district congressional seat.

http://www.coussouleforcongress.com/

He looks like a pleasant young man. He’s a 35-year-old West Point graduate, who served in the military stateside for five and a half years. Then he got a law degree from the University of Maryland. He worked to eliminate urban blight in Baltimore, to enforce regulations against tobacco companies — I think my best friend just pledged a donation right there — and did worker’s comp work in Massachusetts on behalf of injured workers. He then became a stay-at-home dad for a while when his wife’s job brought them into the dark heart of Ohio’s 8th congressional district.

So far his issues page focuses on jobs and the economy, foreclosure and reducing the national debt. The last one kind of set off alarms with me, but then I looked at his proposals and “ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans” is prominent among them. I certainly don’t expect a candidate in this district to be as down-the-line liberal as up here in Ohio’s 11th, but this guy sounds like pretty good news for a district now represented by a hypocritical clown wh makes an ass of himself on a regular basis.