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Random twitter person with an important note.
The power of voting!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/17/gillum-concedes-florida-gubernatorial-contest/
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It was the celebration picture of the House after they repeated the ACA, with red Xs over those no longer in Congress.
There were a lot of Xs.
That does have me wondering how many of the people in that picture survived the election, though.
Don't congresspeople have some kind of public records act that makes that illegal?
I think it only applies to records and information pertaining to government operation. Where that line is is kind of fuzzy but a lot of it is going to come down to no one will care.
Strictly speaking, only while on the floor doing their congress thing. That said, I know p much everything Cortez has done has been immortalized via the media because I can't escape it.
Cortez is actually very savvy about that, as a new generation of politician. It's also an edge as she's supposed to be a different kind of politician which her supporters adore, which will eat that up with a spoon. Beto is doing stuff like this, as well. If she plays this right she'll be a pioneer in how new politicians interact with the public for generations to come.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
This is what Fox wants.
You gotta learn to turn the spigot off when you don't particularly need anything.
I mean if she's you MoC, go for it, but it seems silly to gin up hatred toward someone with useful policy positions just for giggles.
Well, she's a Democrat so it will be the biggest of deals.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Congress exempted itself for the most part. NARA is basically just Executive depatment/agency records and sometimes major members of Congress donate their papers. Pretty sure Ted Kennedy and Dick Lugar did. Though they might have gone to a university somewhere instead.
Kind of a crappy Dem but much better than a Republican.
MSNBC and similar left leaning publications s are what pushed her hard as a sign of the coming "Our Revolution" wave when it was fairly transparently an extremely low turnout/demographics thing. Pressley hasn't received nearly as much coverage despite getting almost 3 times the votes and similarly winning over a very liberal but white and male Representative because, in large part, demographic/representation issues. Abby Finkenaeur is like six months older and won in a swing district but no one made a big thing of her.
The only reason the Republicans have chosen her as a target is she was made an overcovered symbol in the first place. People who consume FoxNews or right wing outlets were never going to like her. But she's just a freshman member. The biggest thing she's done is endorse in primaries, largely unsuccessfully. She doesn't really matter off twitter
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How predictable that she is being accused of being too popular and visible while half the party tries to draft Beto.
They are making her a target because she's an easy target. Young, a woman, non-white, very vocal and putting herself in the news. And the news in general decided she was a Big Thing when she won. Both she and the media have painted a target on her back doing that.
There is only so much time in the day. The right will attack some more then others. Some will basically end up ignored except in local news or actual races. Not every Democrat in the House becomes a favourite target for the right-wing media.
it is not
She won her primary with 16K votes. Pressley won with 60K. Finkenauer won her primary with 30K. Its circular - she's "popular" because she has been heavily covered by left leaning media for her upset win because it was "new" and because people wanted to push a narrative. The right targets her because she was pushed as a symbol of that narrative.
Oh certainly, but Pressley is also a black woman and proud of it.
Lauren Underwood is a black woman and only 32 (and she won Hastert's old seat). There's no question one of the primary motivations for their hatred of her is race, but the question isn't the tenor of the coverage by the amount of it. Anthony Delgado got some major race baiting pre-election but won an upstate very white, Bush-Obama-Trump district and you don't see anything major about him. Lucy McBath has a great mother-of-a-slain-son story, but she isn't on cable news several times a day. Because even Pressley (who has a substantial experience as a staffer so I hope she can be effective faster than most) are freshmen.
Political reporting is patently dumb, it makes politics dumber and this is mostly an example of that.
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Her ability to attract attention and coverage is *part* of her political abilities. It's not some accident that was foisted upon her through no merit of her own.
If you're sick of hearing the details of her life, don't follow her social media. But outside that, as was pointed out, Fox News and others who dislike her politics are going to attack her at a VERY shallow level and you will hear about it in that regard. But don't hate HER for it, hate THEM for digging around for dirt on her. Or otherwise trying to spin any detail they can into being negative. Remember in the first February of Obama's presidency, when Fox News had a day-long tirade about him ordering a hamburger without ketchup, with dijon mustard?
Get ready for more of that shit.
Fox News is already ginning up in case she runs for president in 30 years because that’s their playbook, but we don’t have to play into that bullshit. Ask yourself why this instance of celebrity bothers you. Maybe you too should appreciate a progressive Democrat making noise. It’s not like she’s self-aggrandizing, she’s just being vocal about the issues and her personal experience with them. That’s great and we need more of it and shouldn’t tear it down.