Paul Ryan holds town hall in Texas but won’t face his own constituents
Paul Ryan has been hiding from Wisconsin voters for years.
By Tommy Christopher - April 02, 2018Paul Ryan has been hiding from Wisconsin voters for years.
By Tommy Christopher - April 02, 2018Paul Ryan tried to sneak around Florida to raise money for Republicans instead of addressing the school shooting. He was caught in the act by a 5th grade teacher.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2018He embarrassed himself boasting about an extra $1.50 a week, but he can’t actually offer any better examples.
By Tommy Christopher - February 08, 2018CBS News tracked down the woman Paul Ryan used to promote his tax bill, who got $1.50 extra a week. She wasn’t impressed.
By Matthew Chapman - February 05, 2018Paul Ryan was humiliated after boasting that the GOP tax cuts saved a secretary $1.50 a week. Now he’s being humiliated all over again.
By Matthew Chapman - February 05, 2018They’re not even trying to hide it.
By Matthew Chapman - January 29, 2018Paul Ryan raked in a healthy thank-you gift from the Koch brothers following the passage of the tax scam bill. Ryan’s challenger Randy Bryce made sure it didn’t go unnoticed.
By Alison R. Parker - January 21, 2018Thanks to Trump, the GOP leadership has vanishingly little confidence in the party’s ability to make it through the 2018 midterms unscathed.
By Alison R. Parker - January 14, 2018Donald Trump’s nightmare of a presidency managed to get even more terrifying this week, but the prospect of a huge Democratic sweep in 2018 offers hope that an end is in sight hope that even some Republicans are clinging to. On Thursday morning’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough asked longtime GOP strategist Rick Tyler […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 04, 2018The political world scrambled in the wake of Donald Trump’s new nuclear threat against North Korea on Twitter, boasting that he has a “bigger & more powerful” nuclear button on his desk, in the latest sign of his total instability and recklessness. But it is important to note that Trump and his “bigger button” would not […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 03, 2018Come 2018, House Speaker Paul Ryan might find himself struggling to keep his seat in Congress. That’s according to a new poll, which shows Ryan — one of the most recognizable names in politics — with a shockingly narrow 6-point lead over Randy Bryce, a largely unknown Democratic challenger. Bryce entered the political scene with […]
By Caroline Orr - December 10, 2017With a nickname like “Iron Stache,” it’s clear that Wisconsin Democrat Randy Bryce is a force to be reckoned with. And now he has proved that by managing to shame House Speaker Paul Ryan, whom Bryce is running to unseat, into finally holding a public town hall for the first time in nearly two years, […]
By Alison R. Parker - August 15, 2017Randy “Iron Stache” Bryce, the Army veteran and union ironworker running against House Speaker Paul Ryan, has a stinging assessment of Ryan and his party’s leadership. “Now they’re in the driver’s seat,” Bryce told Shareblue in an exclusive interview, “and the car won’t start.” That’s part of why Ryan is so deeply unpopular. In July, […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - August 08, 2017House Speaker Paul Ryan is not what one would call “well-liked” these days. As Shareblue’s Kaili Joy Gray put it, Ryan is “shockingly unpopular, even for Paul Ryan.” A recent Bloomberg poll showed that only 34 percent of the American public have a favorable view of Ryan, which is both a sharp decline from the […]
By Alison R. Parker - August 05, 2017Tired of lapdog congressional Republicans who refuse to refuse to hold the serially lying, intelligence-leaking, race-baiting, golf-loving, nepotism-flouting Donald Trump accountable for any of his unethical, illegal, and possibly unconstitutional behavior, Democrats are taking matters into their own hands. And they are doing so in record numbers. At this point in 2009, Republicans had recruited a […]
By Dan Desai Martin - July 25, 2017Paul Ryan, the uber-conservative Wisconsin Republican who reluctantly accepted the role of House speaker in 2015 after no one else would take it, is failing. Badly. And Americans are not happy about it. Only 34 percent have a favorable view of him, compared with 48 percent who do not, according to a new Bloomberg poll. […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - July 19, 2017House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t have the guts to face his constituents and explain his disastrous health care bill, but that doesn’t stop him from going on the GOP-friendly Fox News. During a recent interview, Ryan defended his party’s plan to repeal Obamacare and give tax cuts to the rich by attacking “the left.” “I think […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - July 05, 2017Health insurer Anthem Inc. announced that it is being driven out of the Obamacare health exchanges in Wisconsin and Indiana as a result of Donald Trump’s attacks on the industry and health care system. In a press release, Anthem said, “Planning and pricing for ACA-compliant health plans has become increasingly difficult due to a shrinking […]
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2017Randy Bryce is an ironworker, a father, a son, a cancer survivor, a military veteran, a union member, and a Democrat. And he’s running for Congress in Wisconsin to unseat Republican Speaker Paul Ryan. Bryce announced his bid for Congress and introduced himself to voters with a powerful video that quickly went viral, viewed over 125,000 times in […]
By Leah McElrath - June 20, 2017