There is one glaring clue that might help explain this congresswoman’s surprise Republican bent.
This last vote cost her credibility with abortion activists, at a time when abortion is perhaps Democrats’ winningest issue. Greg Greene, who spent six years as associate director of Planned Parenthood Federation for America, said that Gluesenkamp Pérez’s vote for the NDAA “raises real questions about how much she’s willing to stand by her campaign rhetoric about defending reproductive freedom.”That’s pretty bad.
It’s almost convincing, except for the fact that Gluesenkamp Pérez’s colleague, fellow Washington Democrat Pramila Jayapal, has a bill called College for All, which makes community college and most four-year colleges tuition free; crucially, it includes trades school, and Gluesenkamp Pérez has thus far declined to sponsor it.
“A comprehensive look at Marie’s voting record, her bill sponsorships, and her public statements would show she is fighting in Congress every day to represent the interests of working people, rural communities, and small business owners—not corporate interests or D.C. elites.” How to make sense of it? There is a one glaring clue that might help explain Gluesenkamp Pérez’s surprise Republican bent.
In a recent campaign finance disclosure, she was one of just a very small handful of Democrats to accept money from the Chamber of Commerce, one of D.C.’s biggest and most influential corporate lobbies, a consortium of the largest and most powerful corporations on the planet. Though Gluesenkamp Pérez has pledged to refused corporate PAC money, recent
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