Ohio Senate Candidate J.D. Vance Says Politicians Who Don’t Have Children Shouldn’t Hold Office Unless we are pursuing politics for a living, we generally try to avoid spending actual time outside of elections thinking about individual candidates. That is, we ignore them unless they do and say things that are just so nuts that we question whether we live on the same planet. Enter venture capitalist, author and Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, the emergent conservative in next year’s race who has landed on a core issue. Democrats have “become controlled by people who don’t have children,” he says.…
Author: Terry Schwadron
Terry H. Schwadron
Terry H. Schwadron retired as a senior editor at The New York Times, Deputy Managing Editor at The Los Angeles Times and leadership jobs at The Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin. He was part of a Pulitzer Gold Medal team in Los Angeles, and his team part of several Pulitzers in New York. As an editor, Terry created new approaches in newsrooms, built technological tools and digital media. He pursued efforts to recruit and train minority journalists and in scholarship programs. A resident of Harlem, he volunteers in community storytelling, arts in education programs, tutoring and is an active freelance trombone player.
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