Clarification: Nothing in her education or experience translates over to the job she wants. If she accurately described her experience in this interview, she's never been in charge of a budget, overseen a large project, or had a management, or analytical role. She sounds under qualified for a role as a Program Manager at the Humane Society she volunteers at.
I wish Sarah Smith all the best. If she can beat Smith, then good for her. If she can't, then better luck next time. The stuff about Smith's votes on the bombs and the military and all that - all for it. If I lived in the 9th she'd have my vote.
But her theory of politics doesn't make much sense to me. Her distinction between the two kinds of Democrats, that stuff. Or this idea that there's some new progressive caucus to be formed which includes Republicans no less. Its all very Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
So she's wildly unqualified for the position she's seeking and seems to be totally unaware of that fact. Sounds like she's well on her way to being the next Cortez...
I'm increasingly concerned that Ocasio-Cortez is incompetent and merely a collection of sound bites and slogans. AOC is very young for the position and hasn't done anything to show me a wiseness beyond her years.
Also, can we stop dividing everything on race? Who is this helping? Why does her ability to speak (or not) on behalf of communities of color matter - her job is to speak for her constituents, of any race. She gonna be a State Senator for 40% of her district and let the brown people figure it out for themselves?
What is it about "progressives" that enamors them of young, completely unaccomplished political candidates? Why is it that a sane, accomplished person (which implies some substantial real-world experience) doesn't run as a "progressive" here? What we get are bumptious demagogues (Smith, Nikkita Oliver, Sawant) who want to foist their utopian ideas on the rest of us. Can no better progressive candidate be found?
The woman might not know much about the people who live in her district, but if that's the case, it sure doesn't seem to have stopped them from voting for her in their primary, does it?
Seems to me that's not how politics works at all, really-- I doubt our short-fingered President-Oligarch has any idea what life is like for most of the people who voted for him.
@15 I believe that last election showed that Electoral Fitness and Competency are mostly unrelated. But ceteris paribus, I gravitate towards competence over popularity.
If sheās so concerned about the Kent School District, then why didnāt she vote for the school districtās levy earlier this year, when it mattered?
She has absolutely no elected experience, absolutely no background that prepares her for this job, no more authority or expertise with respect to her district than the average Jenny from the block (as a bonus, she doesn't even live there), and no original ideas outside of the standard Sanders/AOC democratic socialist platform and copying Campaign Zero. She is delusional enough to believe that she and AOC can start their own caucus and get Republicans to join them in their pursuit of socialism. Her entire strategy is to attack Adam Smith over progressive wedge legislation, misrepresent his positions, and use spooky words like "corporate" and "big oil."
So if she actually succeeds and replaces an effective, capable 22-year Democrat, she's going to be a clueless, pain-in-the-ass backbencher who drags her heels whenever the Democrats try to unify so she can seem more independent, and she'll spend most of her time appearing on RT and The Young Turks to criticize "corporate, establishment Democrats" for not voting for the two-page-long wedge legislation she co-sponsors with AOC.
But it gets even worse. She has written that she believes this conspiracy theory that the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie by closing voting booths in Arizona (actually, the state GOP closed those voting booths, which were in majority-Clinton districts, to prevent Latinos from participating). She did an AMA on the anti-Clinton, pro-PizzaGate conspiracy theory subreddit /r/wayofthebern. She did a big interview with 9/11 truther, Seth Rich truther, pro-Russia conspiracy theorist Jimmy Dore. And I could go on as she appears regularly on all these podcasts and YouTube shows by all these guys who just love Russia and hate the Democrats and believe all sorts of kooky conspiracy theories. By the way, for you AOC fans out there, she's also a part of this crowd.
There's a lot of these folks running this election cycle and they are all supported by these dark-money PACs like "Justice Democrats." Notice how she criticizes Democrats for taking money from "corporate PACs" but taking money from the PACs she likes is totally OK. Basically the goal is to take advantage of anti-establishment fervor to cash grab. There were a bunch of tea party PACs back in 2010 doing the exact same thing. Run a bunch of naive extremists in the primaries to loudly advertise for your PAC, soak in a bunch of money, pay yourself and your friends, cut and run. Populism can make you rich!
You know, it's funny, the so-called right, all concerned with Sarah Smith's 'lack of experience' -- when they helped elect a President with near-zero political experience, who appears to have jettisoned everything he claims to have learned about negotiating / making deals. (Or is it just his boyfriend Putin, who turns this Prez to mush, whenever he's around...) They too are beginning to see the incredible Folly of their ways, and are trying to keep Dems from making the same Mistake -- well, bully for them, I say, but hey, Neocons -- we have someone here with Courage and Integrity (foreign talk, empty words to Trumpfy).
We need someone voting for US -- not the fucking Lobbyists.
Adam Smith voted in favor of selling (donating?) CLUSTER fucking BOMBS TO SAUDI ARABIA? Home to the 9/11 Hijackers?! Jesus. Fucking. Christ. (Wonder what Heād say)
[I wonder if Heād say cursing is worse than giving/selling fucking Cluster fucking Bombs that we KNOW are gonna be used on human beings ā left scattered there for children to āplayā with ā or if thatās a toss-up]
āI was a liability and claims negotiator for a major insurance companyā¦ ā Just like Bob Parr, in the Incredibles? Didja toss your (evil, little) boss thru six cubicles on your last day, too?
IS violation of the Emoluments Clause a high crime or misdemeanor?
No is slamming Mike Braun or J. B. Pritzker for their complete lack of elected office experience. This whole experience argument is simply sexist. I cannot think of anyone telling a man that their lack adequate experience disqualifies them of running.
I urge you to look at her campaign website on the issues page. You point-blank lied about the originality of her policy platform. She has legislation there that is original and quite impressive specifically on Puerto Rico, gun violence, education, and LGBTQ issues. Meanwhile, Adam's policy page looks like he copied and pasted the Democratic Party's website; absolutely no originality and is worded as politically safely as possible.
Now, this is where things get personal for me. Adam Smith is responsible for putting my classmates' families on the streets of Afghanistan. He voted against withdrawal in Afghanistan and for a slew of costly (in money and lives) counterterrorism bills. Want them all? Here: http://thescore.peaceactionwest.org/votes/rep-adam-smith. He has received a B from the NRA. That scares the crap out of me as a Cleveland High School student. He has sat passively in Cougar Mountain as my friends were being evicted from their homes to South King County, just as Sarah Smith was. He has offered no legislation or ideas to combat the 9th's homeless crisis, unlike Sarah (see affordable housing on her website). Adam has voted against a bill that would require courts to change a death penalty sentence to life imprisonment if there's any doubt of guilt. He's voted against amendments that would further close the achievement gap in our schools. The list goes on. Sarah Smith is not trying to "misrepresent" his positions. And "corporate money" isn't some scare tactic, it's a real thing! Adam takes from the US's main bomb manufacturers! There's a conflict of interest when you sit on the House Armed Services Committee and take from the corporations that you're supposed to be regulating (as a Democrat should do).
On the topic of being effective in Congress: are Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna ineffective? Is AOC not being interviewed by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NY Times, etc? AOC, Jayapal, Khanna, Grijalva, and Omar are all effective Justice Democrat legislators who don't spend all their time on "pro-Russia TYT" touting conspiracy theories.
And you failed to mention Debbie Wasserman Schultz's emails, Donna Brazile passing along debate questions to Hillary during the primaries (reported by Brazile herself), Brazile's account that the party had it in for Bernie, the fact that thousands of voters in Brooklyn (Bernie's base of young millennials) we purged in the NY Primary, and that Bernie was taken off of the voter data right before the NH Primaries until the Bernie people made a big stink and the DNC gave in. This is all just what WE know.
Non-corporate PACs are not the same as corporate PACs. You have to be an idiot to think so. Your beloved Hillary Clinton took millions from a non-corporate PAC money from a PAC group called "Hillary for America". She is now a big leader of the PACs "Resistance" and "Onward Together". There are also labor PACs, like labor union PACs, mail carrier PACs and teacher PACs. There are also ideological PACs that push stuff like abortion rights and gay rights. So no, not all PACs are evil like corporate PACs. And Justice Democrats is not "dark money", it's funded by small donors, just like Onward Together (for the most part). Go take your ignorance to Joe Lieberman and Joe Crowley's camp where they're attempting to divide Democrats in the NY-14 general election, or to Goldman Sachs and Big Pharma (which Adam also takes money from) where you can laugh about the joys of profiting off of poor people.
@23 that was a very impressive gish gallop of lunacy, debunked conspiracy theories and outright bullshit, and I hope it frustrates you to no end to hear that I will not waste my time responding to any of it.
One other thing I'd like to throw out to my dear friends in the 9th. Would you hire a doctor who had never gone to medical school? Would you hire an accountant who had never balanced a checkbook? Would you hire a mechanic who had never popped a hood? Of course not. So why on earth would you hire someone to take care of your district, represent your needs and desires, and promote your interests and those of your neighbors in Congress, who has absolutely no experience and no education in how to do these things?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist allows long shot first-time candidate to evade simple question about who is currently signing her paychecks (which question, I might add, she very much did not want to answer). Who is this private entity?
WILDFIRES, HEAT WAVES, DROUGHTS! AND MORE!
You don't need to be a scientist to know that the CO2 levels are higher than 800,000 years ago. You don't need to be a scientist to know that fossil fuels and fracking create massive CO2 levels and have caused the fires and deadly smoke. You don't need to be a scientist to know what needs to be done, KEEP IT IN THE GROUND.
Time to vote out 22 year Democratic Incumbent Rep. Adam Smith for taking donations/brides from industries that are destroying our land, air, and water. Vote Sarah Smith - your life depends on it.
How the Fracked Gas Industry Plays Politics in Washington. Tracking a decade of spending by PSE and its industry allies. https://www.sightline.org/2018/04/25/how-the-fracked-gas-industry-plays-politics-in-washington/
"Hijole", let me get this straight.
SS does not live in my district, did not vote in the Kent School District Levy (where she does live) and by the way isn't that a local issue not federal? Has never been involved in her community.
Eli, "que paso"? Sounds like she wants to pull the wool over this pendejito chicanito's, from the south end, eyes by piggy backing on Adam's last name.
By the way you guys are no longer my "dios" when it comes to endorsements.
"Viva La Raza"
Manuel form the South end, Distrito numero Nueve and who does vote!
@25 Because you have nothing to say. Learn what a fucking PAC is for god's sake.
Adam's B grade from NRA: http://www.ontheissues.org/House/David_Adam_Smith.htm
Adam Pro-Death Penalty: https://votesmart.org/bill/3533/8893/845/death-sentence-amendment
Adam on Education: https://votesmart.org/bill/votes/8989#.W26CXf5KjBI + https://votesmart.org/bill/3602/8927/845/high-needs-district-amendment#.W26G2P5KjBI
There is more. Take a peek at his opensecrets page, too. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00007833 He was the #1 House Recipient of Northrop Grumman (Republican-heavy donor) in 2016, only taking less than Hillary Clinton (not Trump because they thought Hillary was gonna be president).
@30 (oops, 32 and 33 were supposed to be responding to 30) Anyways, the rest of comment 30 was accurate and terrifying, hence why you didn't address the rest of it.
"People pointing out AOC and Sarah Smith must be right-wng and sexist!!!!"
Sorry, that's absolute bullshit.
I [A] am a solid, blue Democrat and [B] voted for Nancy Pelosi over her completely unqualified male primary challengers. Because Ryan Khojasteh may be super cute and earnest and we can hope he stays in the game and goes far, but he has no real preparation for jobs much less demanding than the one he wanted.
Your comment that no one would say a man with Sarah Smith's resume is unqualified in completely out of touch. MANY people did say exactly that about Sean Eldridge, and his experience (while completely a product of is vast fortune and privilege) was objectively deeper and broader than Sarah Smith's.
Do social privileges still matter? Well in the 2018 elections it's hard to say, being a woman has been worth about a 10 pt advantage for candidates in open, Democratic primaries (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-primaries-candidates-demographics/). Yes, yours is not an open primary, so Sarah may not see the full benefit of those 10 pts. But you're bitching and moaning is unfounded in reality.
What we have when we look at how Democrats vote, is a pretty reasonable population willing to look at qualifications, to shoot Eldridge and Khojasteh because they weren't fucking qualified. AOC is a harmful variation, one democrats shouldn't repeat in WA. And even if we get lucky, and AOC turns out to be an freakin amazing Rep and we're all voting for her for President in 10 years, her election will still be a bad idea, because the process was bad.
If you want to make it easier for women to get elected, objective qualifications should matter.
Like I said I am not going to waste my time responding to every bullshit claim you throw out there. I actually didn't even notice that 29 was you when I responded to it or I wouldn't have bothered.
One small point though, Bernie Sanders also had a C- grade from the NRA in 2006. Those NRA grades actually fluctuate pretty wildly.
I mean this genuinely, but what was she talking about with the claim that the 9th is "a lot bigger" than AOC's NY-14? All congressional districts generally hover around a 700k population.
I don't know what we should expect, but this candidate is a big disappointment and a missed opportunity for the top two primary system. I've never met her but as best I can tell: Sarah Smith is defensive, self-involved, arrogant, overly impressed with her modest life story, inarticulate, and worst of all, deeply incurious about Congress and the work it actually does. If she can stick to positive policy suggestions, that's helpful; maybe some of that will land. But if she does nothing but overreact to Adam Smith and his critiques about her, it will be a long two months and a short political career.
You know, there's a pretty good model for this type of candidate who's sat in the Senate from WA for 26 years. So who knows. But as far the Dem Socialists are concerned: this is the best you can do?
I don't know what we should expect, but this candidate is a big disappointment and a missed opportunity for the top two primary system. Sarah Smith is defensive, self-involved, arrogant, overly impressed with her modest life story, inarticulate, and worst of all, deeply incurious about Congress and the work it actually does. If she can stick to positive policy suggestions, that's helpful; maybe some of that will land. But if she does nothing but overreact to Adam Smith and his critiques about her, it will be a long two months and a short political career.
You know, there's a pretty good model for this type of candidate who's sat in the Senate from WA for 26 years. So who knows. But as far the Dem Socialists are concerned: this is the best you can do?
With "36" in the headline, one would expect the questions to be numbered in the article.
Would a U.S. House representative have anything to do with the Kent School District? I didn't understand that tangent.
Also, what does one hope to do with a degree in Classics?
She does not seem qualified for suitably prepared to be in Congress. Y'all should probably keep the one you have.
Clarification: Nothing in her education or experience translates over to the job she wants. If she accurately described her experience in this interview, she's never been in charge of a budget, overseen a large project, or had a management, or analytical role. She sounds under qualified for a role as a Program Manager at the Humane Society she volunteers at.
She profited by buying a foreclosed house, capitalizing in someone else's pain. Well done, little socialist, well done.
I wish Sarah Smith all the best. If she can beat Smith, then good for her. If she can't, then better luck next time. The stuff about Smith's votes on the bombs and the military and all that - all for it. If I lived in the 9th she'd have my vote.
But her theory of politics doesn't make much sense to me. Her distinction between the two kinds of Democrats, that stuff. Or this idea that there's some new progressive caucus to be formed which includes Republicans no less. Its all very Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
So she's wildly unqualified for the position she's seeking and seems to be totally unaware of that fact. Sounds like she's well on her way to being the next Cortez...
I'm increasingly concerned that Ocasio-Cortez is incompetent and merely a collection of sound bites and slogans. AOC is very young for the position and hasn't done anything to show me a wiseness beyond her years.
Also, can we stop dividing everything on race? Who is this helping? Why does her ability to speak (or not) on behalf of communities of color matter - her job is to speak for her constituents, of any race. She gonna be a State Senator for 40% of her district and let the brown people figure it out for themselves?
This poor woman doesn't have the proverbial snowballs chance in hell. Fortunately.
What is it about "progressives" that enamors them of young, completely unaccomplished political candidates? Why is it that a sane, accomplished person (which implies some substantial real-world experience) doesn't run as a "progressive" here? What we get are bumptious demagogues (Smith, Nikkita Oliver, Sawant) who want to foist their utopian ideas on the rest of us. Can no better progressive candidate be found?
Wow. Haters out in force.
@9 @11 etc
The woman might not know much about the people who live in her district, but if that's the case, it sure doesn't seem to have stopped them from voting for her in their primary, does it?
Seems to me that's not how politics works at all, really-- I doubt our short-fingered President-Oligarch has any idea what life is like for most of the people who voted for him.
Maybe at least TRY to look like you're not stalking that Myhre person, whoever she is?
I do like the picture you paint of Trump the Empath, though, that there is some tasty candy.
U.S. House members arenāt supposed to be great legislators or parliamentarians out of the block. Itās always been that way.
Their job is to be the rabble and voice of the common people, as restrictive as that concept has historically been.
Smith is probably a good representative for his district. But heād better prove heās willing to do better or heāll lose that seat.
@15 I believe that last election showed that Electoral Fitness and Competency are mostly unrelated. But ceteris paribus, I gravitate towards competence over popularity.
If sheās so concerned about the Kent School District, then why didnāt she vote for the school districtās levy earlier this year, when it mattered?
The long and short of it is as follows:
She has absolutely no elected experience, absolutely no background that prepares her for this job, no more authority or expertise with respect to her district than the average Jenny from the block (as a bonus, she doesn't even live there), and no original ideas outside of the standard Sanders/AOC democratic socialist platform and copying Campaign Zero. She is delusional enough to believe that she and AOC can start their own caucus and get Republicans to join them in their pursuit of socialism. Her entire strategy is to attack Adam Smith over progressive wedge legislation, misrepresent his positions, and use spooky words like "corporate" and "big oil."
So if she actually succeeds and replaces an effective, capable 22-year Democrat, she's going to be a clueless, pain-in-the-ass backbencher who drags her heels whenever the Democrats try to unify so she can seem more independent, and she'll spend most of her time appearing on RT and The Young Turks to criticize "corporate, establishment Democrats" for not voting for the two-page-long wedge legislation she co-sponsors with AOC.
But it gets even worse. She has written that she believes this conspiracy theory that the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie by closing voting booths in Arizona (actually, the state GOP closed those voting booths, which were in majority-Clinton districts, to prevent Latinos from participating). She did an AMA on the anti-Clinton, pro-PizzaGate conspiracy theory subreddit /r/wayofthebern. She did a big interview with 9/11 truther, Seth Rich truther, pro-Russia conspiracy theorist Jimmy Dore. And I could go on as she appears regularly on all these podcasts and YouTube shows by all these guys who just love Russia and hate the Democrats and believe all sorts of kooky conspiracy theories. By the way, for you AOC fans out there, she's also a part of this crowd.
There's a lot of these folks running this election cycle and they are all supported by these dark-money PACs like "Justice Democrats." Notice how she criticizes Democrats for taking money from "corporate PACs" but taking money from the PACs she likes is totally OK. Basically the goal is to take advantage of anti-establishment fervor to cash grab. There were a bunch of tea party PACs back in 2010 doing the exact same thing. Run a bunch of naive extremists in the primaries to loudly advertise for your PAC, soak in a bunch of money, pay yourself and your friends, cut and run. Populism can make you rich!
Don't be a sucker, folks.
You know, it's funny, the so-called right, all concerned with Sarah Smith's 'lack of experience' -- when they helped elect a President with near-zero political experience, who appears to have jettisoned everything he claims to have learned about negotiating / making deals. (Or is it just his boyfriend Putin, who turns this Prez to mush, whenever he's around...) They too are beginning to see the incredible Folly of their ways, and are trying to keep Dems from making the same Mistake -- well, bully for them, I say, but hey, Neocons -- we have someone here with Courage and Integrity (foreign talk, empty words to Trumpfy).
We need someone voting for US -- not the fucking Lobbyists.
Adam Smith voted in favor of selling (donating?) CLUSTER fucking BOMBS TO SAUDI ARABIA? Home to the 9/11 Hijackers?! Jesus. Fucking. Christ. (Wonder what Heād say)
[I wonder if Heād say cursing is worse than giving/selling fucking Cluster fucking Bombs that we KNOW are gonna be used on human beings ā left scattered there for children to āplayā with ā or if thatās a toss-up]
āI was a liability and claims negotiator for a major insurance companyā¦ ā Just like Bob Parr, in the Incredibles? Didja toss your (evil, little) boss thru six cubicles on your last day, too?
IS violation of the Emoluments Clause a high crime or misdemeanor?
So many questions. So little time....
Debunking Comment #21:
No is slamming Mike Braun or J. B. Pritzker for their complete lack of elected office experience. This whole experience argument is simply sexist. I cannot think of anyone telling a man that their lack adequate experience disqualifies them of running.
I urge you to look at her campaign website on the issues page. You point-blank lied about the originality of her policy platform. She has legislation there that is original and quite impressive specifically on Puerto Rico, gun violence, education, and LGBTQ issues. Meanwhile, Adam's policy page looks like he copied and pasted the Democratic Party's website; absolutely no originality and is worded as politically safely as possible.
Now, this is where things get personal for me. Adam Smith is responsible for putting my classmates' families on the streets of Afghanistan. He voted against withdrawal in Afghanistan and for a slew of costly (in money and lives) counterterrorism bills. Want them all? Here: http://thescore.peaceactionwest.org/votes/rep-adam-smith. He has received a B from the NRA. That scares the crap out of me as a Cleveland High School student. He has sat passively in Cougar Mountain as my friends were being evicted from their homes to South King County, just as Sarah Smith was. He has offered no legislation or ideas to combat the 9th's homeless crisis, unlike Sarah (see affordable housing on her website). Adam has voted against a bill that would require courts to change a death penalty sentence to life imprisonment if there's any doubt of guilt. He's voted against amendments that would further close the achievement gap in our schools. The list goes on. Sarah Smith is not trying to "misrepresent" his positions. And "corporate money" isn't some scare tactic, it's a real thing! Adam takes from the US's main bomb manufacturers! There's a conflict of interest when you sit on the House Armed Services Committee and take from the corporations that you're supposed to be regulating (as a Democrat should do).
On the topic of being effective in Congress: are Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna ineffective? Is AOC not being interviewed by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NY Times, etc? AOC, Jayapal, Khanna, Grijalva, and Omar are all effective Justice Democrat legislators who don't spend all their time on "pro-Russia TYT" touting conspiracy theories.
And you failed to mention Debbie Wasserman Schultz's emails, Donna Brazile passing along debate questions to Hillary during the primaries (reported by Brazile herself), Brazile's account that the party had it in for Bernie, the fact that thousands of voters in Brooklyn (Bernie's base of young millennials) we purged in the NY Primary, and that Bernie was taken off of the voter data right before the NH Primaries until the Bernie people made a big stink and the DNC gave in. This is all just what WE know.
Non-corporate PACs are not the same as corporate PACs. You have to be an idiot to think so. Your beloved Hillary Clinton took millions from a non-corporate PAC money from a PAC group called "Hillary for America". She is now a big leader of the PACs "Resistance" and "Onward Together". There are also labor PACs, like labor union PACs, mail carrier PACs and teacher PACs. There are also ideological PACs that push stuff like abortion rights and gay rights. So no, not all PACs are evil like corporate PACs. And Justice Democrats is not "dark money", it's funded by small donors, just like Onward Together (for the most part). Go take your ignorance to Joe Lieberman and Joe Crowley's camp where they're attempting to divide Democrats in the NY-14 general election, or to Goldman Sachs and Big Pharma (which Adam also takes money from) where you can laugh about the joys of profiting off of poor people.
@23 that was a very impressive gish gallop of lunacy, debunked conspiracy theories and outright bullshit, and I hope it frustrates you to no end to hear that I will not waste my time responding to any of it.
One other thing I'd like to throw out to my dear friends in the 9th. Would you hire a doctor who had never gone to medical school? Would you hire an accountant who had never balanced a checkbook? Would you hire a mechanic who had never popped a hood? Of course not. So why on earth would you hire someone to take care of your district, represent your needs and desires, and promote your interests and those of your neighbors in Congress, who has absolutely no experience and no education in how to do these things?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist allows long shot first-time candidate to evade simple question about who is currently signing her paychecks (which question, I might add, she very much did not want to answer). Who is this private entity?
WILDFIRES, HEAT WAVES, DROUGHTS! AND MORE!
You don't need to be a scientist to know that the CO2 levels are higher than 800,000 years ago. You don't need to be a scientist to know that fossil fuels and fracking create massive CO2 levels and have caused the fires and deadly smoke. You don't need to be a scientist to know what needs to be done, KEEP IT IN THE GROUND.
Time to vote out 22 year Democratic Incumbent Rep. Adam Smith for taking donations/brides from industries that are destroying our land, air, and water. Vote Sarah Smith - your life depends on it.
How the Fracked Gas Industry Plays Politics in Washington. Tracking a decade of spending by PSE and its industry allies. https://www.sightline.org/2018/04/25/how-the-fracked-gas-industry-plays-politics-in-washington/
"Hijole", let me get this straight.
SS does not live in my district, did not vote in the Kent School District Levy (where she does live) and by the way isn't that a local issue not federal? Has never been involved in her community.
Eli, "que paso"? Sounds like she wants to pull the wool over this pendejito chicanito's, from the south end, eyes by piggy backing on Adam's last name.
By the way you guys are no longer my "dios" when it comes to endorsements.
"Viva La Raza"
Manuel form the South end, Distrito numero Nueve and who does vote!
@25 Because you have nothing to say. Learn what a fucking PAC is for god's sake.
Adam's B grade from NRA: http://www.ontheissues.org/House/David_Adam_Smith.htm
Adam Pro-Death Penalty: https://votesmart.org/bill/3533/8893/845/death-sentence-amendment
Adam on Education: https://votesmart.org/bill/votes/8989#.W26CXf5KjBI + https://votesmart.org/bill/3602/8927/845/high-needs-district-amendment#.W26G2P5KjBI
There is more. Take a peek at his opensecrets page, too. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00007833 He was the #1 House Recipient of Northrop Grumman (Republican-heavy donor) in 2016, only taking less than Hillary Clinton (not Trump because they thought Hillary was gonna be president).
@29 his B grade from the NRA is from 2003. Nice try though.
@30 C- from 2012: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/19/us/politics/nra.html?_r=0
@29 It doesn't matter when it happened. Gun bills passed 30 years ago still helped murder 17 students in Florida. There is blood on Adam's hands.
@29 And that suing gun stores bill y'all Hillarybots love to talk about that Bernie voted for, yeah Adam voted for that, too.
@30 (oops, 32 and 33 were supposed to be responding to 30) Anyways, the rest of comment 30 was accurate and terrifying, hence why you didn't address the rest of it.
^*crap, "rest of comment 29 was accurate and terrifying"
@22/23
"People pointing out AOC and Sarah Smith must be right-wng and sexist!!!!"
Sorry, that's absolute bullshit.
I [A] am a solid, blue Democrat and [B] voted for Nancy Pelosi over her completely unqualified male primary challengers. Because Ryan Khojasteh may be super cute and earnest and we can hope he stays in the game and goes far, but he has no real preparation for jobs much less demanding than the one he wanted.
Your comment that no one would say a man with Sarah Smith's resume is unqualified in completely out of touch. MANY people did say exactly that about Sean Eldridge, and his experience (while completely a product of is vast fortune and privilege) was objectively deeper and broader than Sarah Smith's.
Do social privileges still matter? Well in the 2018 elections it's hard to say, being a woman has been worth about a 10 pt advantage for candidates in open, Democratic primaries (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-primaries-candidates-demographics/). Yes, yours is not an open primary, so Sarah may not see the full benefit of those 10 pts. But you're bitching and moaning is unfounded in reality.
What we have when we look at how Democrats vote, is a pretty reasonable population willing to look at qualifications, to shoot Eldridge and Khojasteh because they weren't fucking qualified. AOC is a harmful variation, one democrats shouldn't repeat in WA. And even if we get lucky, and AOC turns out to be an freakin amazing Rep and we're all voting for her for President in 10 years, her election will still be a bad idea, because the process was bad.
If you want to make it easier for women to get elected, objective qualifications should matter.
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Like I said I am not going to waste my time responding to every bullshit claim you throw out there. I actually didn't even notice that 29 was you when I responded to it or I wouldn't have bothered.
One small point though, Bernie Sanders also had a C- grade from the NRA in 2006. Those NRA grades actually fluctuate pretty wildly.
I mean this genuinely, but what was she talking about with the claim that the 9th is "a lot bigger" than AOC's NY-14? All congressional districts generally hover around a 700k population.
I don't know what we should expect, but this candidate is a big disappointment and a missed opportunity for the top two primary system. I've never met her but as best I can tell: Sarah Smith is defensive, self-involved, arrogant, overly impressed with her modest life story, inarticulate, and worst of all, deeply incurious about Congress and the work it actually does. If she can stick to positive policy suggestions, that's helpful; maybe some of that will land. But if she does nothing but overreact to Adam Smith and his critiques about her, it will be a long two months and a short political career.
You know, there's a pretty good model for this type of candidate who's sat in the Senate from WA for 26 years. So who knows. But as far the Dem Socialists are concerned: this is the best you can do?
I don't know what we should expect, but this candidate is a big disappointment and a missed opportunity for the top two primary system. Sarah Smith is defensive, self-involved, arrogant, overly impressed with her modest life story, inarticulate, and worst of all, deeply incurious about Congress and the work it actually does. If she can stick to positive policy suggestions, that's helpful; maybe some of that will land. But if she does nothing but overreact to Adam Smith and his critiques about her, it will be a long two months and a short political career.
You know, there's a pretty good model for this type of candidate who's sat in the Senate from WA for 26 years. So who knows. But as far the Dem Socialists are concerned: this is the best you can do?