{"id":1666582,"date":"2022-09-30T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666582"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:38:32","slug":"democrat-tim-ryan-skips-work-due-to-covid-emergency-he-was-really-in-hollywood-fundraising-for-his-senate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-tim-ryan-skips-work-due-to-covid-emergency-he-was-really-in-hollywood-fundraising-for-his-senate-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Tim Ryan Skips Work Due To COVID \u2018Emergency.\u2019 He Was Really In Hollywood Fundraising For His Senate Campaign."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-tim-ryan-skips-work-due-to-covid-emergency-he-was-really-in-hollywood-fundraising-for-his-senate-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666582&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Due to the lingering COVID pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tim-ryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)<\/a> cannot be bothered to show up in person at his job in Washington, D.C., but he does have time to travel across the country for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/collections\/hollywood-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi\u2019s declaration that COVID is still an emergency, even after the president stated that the pandemic was \u201cover,\u201d members of Congress are still allowed to vote via proxy \u2014 allowing someone else to cast their votes in person. The theory is that COVID poses a risk to some, and they cannot travel for work. Of course, theories don\u2019t always transfer into reality, and some folks like Ryan are using the measure for personal travel and fundraising opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTim Ryan claimed he skipped work today \u2018due to the ongoing public health emergency,&#8217;\u201d GOP Senate candidate JD Vance\u2019s press Secretary Luke Schroeder tweeted Wednesday. \u201cHe\u2019s actually headed to California to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hollywood elites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Ryan claimed he skipped work today &#8220;due to the ongoing public health emergency.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s actually headed to California to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hollywood elites. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OHSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OHSen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0kXvMHUQLw\">https:\/\/t.co\/0kXvMHUQLw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tz6EzkJ2cV\">pic.twitter.com\/Tz6EzkJ2cV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luke Schroeder (@Luke__Schroeder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Luke__Schroeder\/status\/1575238559878942720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As flagged by The Wrap, Ryan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/ohio-senate-hopeful-tim-ryan-175143254.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met<\/a> with a number of\u00a0 \u201cHollywood-esque type people who care about politics\u201d at multiple fundraisers Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood super-agent Jay Sures hosted Ryan at one dinner and told The Wrap, \u201cI\u2019ve been friends with Tim, and I\u2019m hosting because I think he\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe someone I\u2019ve known for a while,\u201d Sures added. \u201cI care about him and I would really like to see him and his family do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per The Washington Free Beacon, Ryan also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tim-ryan-attends-fundraiser-hosted-by-attorney-who-pressed-to-minimize-payouts-to-nassars-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met<\/a> with \u201cMitchell Kamin, a high-powered Los Angeles-based litigator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kamin represented\u00a0 the \u201cU.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, which in 2020 attempted to avoid paying damages to the victims of former U.S. women\u2019s national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted in 2017 of systematically sexually abusing women and girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan isn\u2019t the first Democrat caught playing hookey while blaming COVID. Last winter, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) voted proxy throughout December, yet traveled to Miami, Florida, for a New Year\u2019s rendezvous with her then-boyfriend. The democratic-socialist stated that critics of her trip were simply jealous and sexually frustrated men who wanted to date her.<\/p>\n<p>AOC wasn\u2019t fundraising, she was doing things like partying at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10363679\/AOC-spotted-partying-maskless-crowded-drag-bar-Miami-vacation.html\">drag brunch with celebrity Billy Porter<\/a>. She shortly caught COVID after the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Republican members of Congress have also taken advantage of the House\u2019s lax proxy rules, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/news\/local-news\/2022\/01\/sefanik-votes-by-proxy-to-fundraise-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-ranking<\/a> Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Ryan is apparently hoping to catch some momentum in his race against Vance. Polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/oh\/ohio_senate_vance_vs_ryan-7624.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> that Vance has a slight lead.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-tim-ryan-we-need-to-kill-and-confront-the-maga-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Democrat Tim Ryan: We Need To \u2018Kill And Confront\u2019 The MAGA\u00a0Movement<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the lingering COVID pandemic, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) cannot be bothered to show up in person at his job in Washington, D.C., but he does have time to travel across the country for Hollywood fundraisers. 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