Meet Warren Davidson, the Man Who Took John Boehner’s Seat

Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann / June 14, 2016 / 26 comments

Standing in former Speaker John Boehner’s empty and cavernous Longworth office, Ohio’s newest congressman seems out of place. Maybe that’s because Warren Davidson is more of a business and military man than a politician.

Before being sworn in last week, Davidson made a career parachuting from airplanes as an Army Ranger, then filing patents as a manufacturing entrepreneur. Other than a short stint as a township trustee, he’s never held elected office until now.

But what Davidson lacks in political acumen, he’s confident he can replace with leadership experience. His operating doctrine is simple, he tells The Daily Signal: “Fight the war you’re in, not the one you wish you were in. Pay attention to the situation and read it.”

So far, it’s worked out for the rookie legislator.......Though it’s just one seat out of 435 in the House, Davidson’s subsequent June 7 victory represents an expansion of the conservative congressional beachhead.

“It’s huge,” Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general and president of the Senate Conservative Fund, says of Davidson’s win.“It was historic for [Rep.] Mark Meadows, R-N.C., to courageously knock John Boehner out,” Cuccinelli tells The Daily Signal, “but it is a true sea change to replace him with a true conservative.”.......To Read More......