A Red-District Conqueror Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror

[Along Came Jones]

From the moment I stumbled upon a Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez interview I felt instant respect and even cautious admiration. On election day she defeated the far-right Republican and former Green Beret Joe Kent to win reelection. In a RED DISTRICT! The following excerpt from a New York Times article might show you why. At the end of this post, I've attached a 30 day gifted link to the NYT interview.

For two years, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat from a rural, red district in Washington State, has been criticizing her party for being too dismissive of working-class voters.

Ms. Gluesenkamp Perez, 36, who owns an auto shop now run by her husband, has angered progressives for sometimes crossing party lines, like when she voted with Republicans to repeal President Biden’s student loan forgiveness initiative. She argued that it didn’t do much for her district, where most people don’t have college degrees.

People are putting their groceries on their credit card. No one is listening to anything else you say if you try to talk them out of their lived experiences with data points from some economists.

What I really hope happens is we change the kinds of candidates we’re supporting.

I hope that other normal people see me and decide they can run, too. There’s not one weird trick that’s going to fix the Democratic Party. It is going to take parents of young kids, people in rural communities, people in the trades running for office and being taken seriously.

How does she feel about Trump's reelection?

I guess I’m still wrapping my head around where to go and what to do. But even when the national current changes, we still have all the same issues here.

Read the interview. Tell us what you think.

A Red-District Conqueror Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror, Annie Karni, The New York Times, 11/8/2024

 

[Peacenik]

Her top contributor is AIPAC. She also enjoys a lot of big money backing. I presume she only pretends to represent the common worker. She's beholden to big money. This is the major problem with American government. The people who are supposed to be representing the people are actually sucking up to what big money wants.

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I wanted to read the article but got blocked by intrusive big corporation terms and conditions, which I refuse to accept.

I am not impressed by supposed "representatives" who are actually beholden to big money.

Our government does what big money wants. Our concerns are of little to no importance to government. That is one of the reasons most people hold government in very low regard.

We need to pass nonbinding resolutions in support of the American Anti Corruption Act in as many local cities and counties as possible. When this happens all over the country and goes viral, people will begin to believe we can actually get the big money out of Congress. Then we will finally get better candidate choices. When Congress has been replaced by true representatives of We, The People, we can pass new laws and Amendments to return our government to one of the people , by the people, and for the people.

 

[OrphanSlug]

It is not a bad read, but much of the message is meaningless to progressives and therefor Representative Perez will likely have very little influence within her own party.

 

[Gatsby]

From the moment I stumbled upon a Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez interview I felt instant respect and even cautious admiration. On election day she defeated the far-right Republican and former Green Beret Joe Kent to win reelection. In a RED DISTRICT! The following excerpt from a New York Times article might show you why. At the end of this post, I've attached a 30 day gifted link to the NYT interview.

For two years, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat from a rural, red district in Washington State, has been criticizing her party for being too dismissive of working-class voters.

Ms. Gluesenkamp Perez, 36, who owns an auto shop now run by her husband, has angered progressives for sometimes crossing party lines, like when she voted with Republicans to repeal President Biden’s student loan forgiveness initiative. She argued that it didn’t do much for her district, where most people don’t have college degrees.

People are putting their groceries on their credit card. No one is listening to anything else you say if you try to talk them out of their lived experiences with data points from some economists.

What I really hope happens is we change the kinds of candidates we’re supporting.

I hope that other normal people see me and decide they can run, too. There’s not one weird trick that’s going to fix the Democratic Party. It is going to take parents of young kids, people in rural communities, people in the trades running for office and being taken seriously.

How does she feel about Trump's reelection?

I guess I’m still wrapping my head around where to go and what to do. But even when the national current changes, we still have all the same issues here.

Read the interview. Tell us what you think.

A Red-District Conqueror Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror, Annie Karni, The New York Times, 11/8/2024

She is correct. I agree with most of what she says.

 

[Gatsby]

Her top contributor is AIPAC. She also enjoys a lot of big money backing. I presume she only pretends to represent the common worker.

She quite literally represents them, seeing as they just reelected her.

 

[X Factor]

“The fundamental mistake people make is condescension. A lot of elected officials get calloused to the ways that they’re disrespecting people.”

Amen to that.

 

[Peacenik]

She quite literally represents them, seeing as they just reelected her.

Right. And she's not beholden to her big money backers. (big fat eyeroll...)

We do not have to accept that big money runs everything. There is another way...

 

[j brown's body]

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who voted against a violent insurrectionist and poisonous demagogue.

What do you see?

 

[Along Came Jones]

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who voted against a violent insurrectionist and poisonous demagogue.

What do you see?

I see someone who voted for a candidate who should have won if only she'd paid closer attention to the working class' anger toward and distrust of progressive Democrat politics. I don't waste a lot of time on feeding oats to dead horses. I'm more interested in what Trump does next.

 

[Along Came Jones]

She quite literally represents them, seeing as they just reelected her.

@Peacenik as well.

If you fellas are correct, then AIPAC controls the Washington contingent to the House of Representatives. They endorsed and donated to 8 Democrats and 2 Republicans.

 

[Gatsby]

Right. And she's not beholden to her big money backers. (big fat eyeroll...)

We do not have to accept that big money runs everything. There is another way...

She won reelection because she got more votes than her opponent.

 

[Peacenik]

@Peacenik as well.

If you fellas are correct, then AIPAC controls the Washington contingent to the House of Representatives. They endorsed and donated to 8 Democrats and 2 Republicans.

Well they certainly get the USA to continue to support Israel no matter what war crimes they commit.

 

[Linc]

This page has the Washington election page for 2020 where
GOP Herrera Beutler easily won reelection in CD-3 in 2020 by 12.98%, first elected in 2010.

Washington 2020 General Election

Washington 2020 General Election

www.thegreenpapers.com

Jaime Herrera Beutler - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Beutler voted to impeach the insurrectionist traitor after J6,
and lost a 2022 primary to magat Kent who’s lost to the Democrat twice.

Here’s the home page of the GP if you’re interested:

The Green Papers: United States Off Year Election 2025

The Green Papers: United States Off Year Election 2025. Facts, figures, and tidbits about the General Election, Primaries, Caucuses, Delegate selection plan, State and National Political Conventions, and Candidates.

www.thegreenpapers.com

This source of data, not opinion, shows Trump
winning this CD by 4.2% in 2020 with the 2022 remaps.

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[reinaert]

She extrapolates her local conditions too broadly. She is an outlier pretending to be the mean.

 

[Along Came Jones]

She extrapolates her local conditions too broadly. She is an outlier pretending to be the mean.

No doubt, as co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition, and a member of the Problem Solver Caucus, she would be an outlier serving in either major party. If she's pretending at anything, it is a refreshing pretense.

 

[dobieg]

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who voted against a violent insurrectionist and poisonous demagogue.

What do you see?

Someone who voted against you.