We wanted to love Jesse Wineberry. But the former state representative wasn’t able to pinpoint one specific policy that incumbent Adam Smith either supported or ignored that had hurt or benefitted his South Seattle district. Instead, Wineberry made repeated jabs at the congressman for his poor attendance recently—due to Smith’s recovery from three fucking hip surgeries.
Low blows. The SECB is not above low blows—or mile-high blows, or horizontal blows, or maintenance blows—but we expect more from a congressional challenger.
Yes, Smith is a white dude representing the most diverse district in the state. (And, yes, Pramila Jayapal coulda and probably shoulda challenged Smith.) But in his 19 years in Congress, Smith actively worked with and advocated for communities of color. In the last year, he has ensured local Somalis could send remittances to their families back home, introduced legislation to improve conditions for detainees at the Northwest Detention Center, and supported initiatives to make it easier to prosecute police for use of deadly force.
Smith has fucked up, too…
