But the district seems into it? It’s mostly very very rural, but much of it is close to I-5. It’s got a few thousand people who care about timber, a few thousand who care about guns, a few thousand who care about immigration. Dialing in the right issue positions is what’s worked for 25 years.

All that to say that Gluesenkamp Perez’s weird politics sort of fits. From the outside she seems borderline incoherent, eating at the political equivalent of the Pizza Hut salad bar, missing any central thesis. Real vision is scary!

When Baird was replaced by Jaime Herrera Beutler (a Republican who voted with her party 90% of the time) nobody was much surprised. She lasted 6 terms, before eventually coming in third in the 2022 primary, after she became one of 10 House Members to vote to impeach Trump (post 1/6/21).

Vancouver is some truly cursed political turf. I worked for the Democratic Party there in 2006, and Dems did great… but I had to spend a lot of time jockeying between Senators Cantwell and then-Rep. Brian Baird, who was notoriously moderate and just wouldn’t stop talking trash about the Party.

These do sound like the kinds of things you would say though

Good… for future plaintiffs?

Add Sec. Chavez-DeRemer to the list of folks who’ve adopted the President’s approved gender presentation.

Here she is at her confirmation hearing (looking how she looked in OR politics):

R: “give us that bag of marshmallows”
D: “okay, but we want you to stop pooping your pants all the time”
R: “if you give us the marshmallows right now we will poop your pants too”
D: “are you alright?”

As a public defender, if any of my clients went out and said something in public so obviously opposed to their interests in the case I’d:
A) beg them to stop
B) get absolutely clobbered in court
C) be horribly embarrassed
D) all of the above

I still carry the card with me everywhere I go. I never want to forget what that was like.

I was a single young man and hunger warped my life.

I can’t imagine how much more I would have lost if I were feeding a kid, too. Or what else I would have done to keep good food in front of them.

Seriously, let me go back to 1974 and dump a bottle of gin on this damn napkin.

Since 1975, grocery prices in the US have gone up an average of 3.5% per year.

In 1975 the federal minimum wage was $2.10. It went up to $3.80 in 1990, $5.85 in 2007, and the current minimum of $7.25 in 2009.

Wonder why more people need supplementary food support?

Absolutely beclowning themselves. Since 1975 the number of people living in poverty in America has gone up. But the rate is pretty steady - between 10 and 15%. (1/8 is 12.5%, pretty much exactly the historic norm)

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