Centralia, Wash. (AP) – Representative Mary Gloskamb Perez gave Democrats Nader victory last fall when she defeated Maga Daquard in A. republican A province in the southwest of Washington State.
Some by some as a model for the excellent voters with blue collaborators who abandoned the Democratic Party in the elections last year, the owner of the party car repair store refused, refused to engage in culture wars, and focus on helping people in its area-maintaining VA clinics, for example, or support for financing for professional store classes.
Whether the Second Congress strategy will be expected by voters in the mid -term elections next year. But for some progressive in its area, it proves that it is not sufficient to confront the authoritarian tilt of President Donald Trump at the White House.
In two halls of the city, it recently hosted, the crowd shouted to questions or chanted, “Imagine them!” Many pledged to support a more liberal initial competitor.
“It is a really bad time to be center,” said Liz Oxford, a 39 -year -old mother from Centralia. “It continues to go down as one of the few Democrats who stand by the Republicans, and this is really difficult to accept now. It is like, see, ran as a democracy, and Democrats now have to draw a solid line.”
Is it in danger?
Hundreds of people appeared in the city halls last month. Many were angry because of her recent voices To monitor Texas Democratic Representative Green To disable Trump’s speech in front of Congress and for a procedure It requires proof of citizenship To register to vote.
The quality of GluesESENKAMP Perez, 36, can help criticize if Democrats can recover the home Next year. But in a largely red rural area, some say erection from left -wing voters may actually help it.
“In an area like Washington 3, she wins or loses through the ability to get independent and mild Republicans to cross the vast chaos that opened between the two parties and votes on you,” said Sandeb Kaoshek, a Seattle -based political advisor, who wins or loses through the ability to obtain independents and moderate Republicans to cross the vast chaos that opened between the two parties and votes on you, “and Marie succeeded in Seattle in Seattle, and she succeeded in the first campaign.”
Kaushik pointed out that GluesESENKAMP Perez is the only democratic running for the federal position or at the state level to move the region at least a decade. Even Democrat Sens. Patti Murray and Maria Canlo, former state governor Jay Ensley and newly -elected governor Pop Ferguson there, despite his victory at the state level.
The ancestor GluesESENKAMP Perez, the Republican from six periods, did not come out, Jaime Herrara Beutler, 2022 Elementary. The right -wing voters are angry at her vote for Trump’s dismissal, threw a lot with Joe Kent, a former American army soldier who promoted Trump’s lie that the 2020 elections were stolen and narrated conspiracy theories around January 6, 2021, to attack the Capitol by his two supporters.
In the general elections of that year, GluesESENKAMP Perez beat Kent with less than a percentage, and the heart of the Democrats.
It goes to A match with Kent in the past fallShe was considered one of the most vulnerable members of Congress – but she won 4 points and outperformed both Trump and the democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
So far, a Democrat, Brent Henrich, has announced a fundamental challenge. On his website, the former film operations director who requested this week refused to moderate the GlueSESENKAMP Perez as the wrong approach at the present time.
“With our nation in crises, Democrats in Congress must do everything in their power to prevent Trump’s radical agenda, but our concern was very ready to settle on bills that threaten our rights, prosperity and health.”
What do you represent?
Analysts all over the country pointed to the approach of nuts and tiles in Congress in governance-what it describes as a “positive political agenda”-as a treatment for democratic problems. For her, this means securing funds for store programs in professional colleges, pressing the Ministry of Affairs of Veterans to reopen a clinic in Shalis so that old warriors do not have to drive to Olympia, and to pay to allow tree lines to create jobs and reduce the risk of forest fires.
“The political polarization was truly destructive for our democracy,” Glosingcpel Perez told Associated Press in an interview. “If you are trying to build a political agenda that is popular, if you are trying to build a greater feeling of democracy, it is not wise, in my view, to start excluding people. It is related to building a larger team, just being more useful for more people.”
The components have praised the political spectrum of their work on local issues. But in the last city halls, the anger of some of its voices was clear.
These vote include the law of memorization, which would It requires proof of citizenship Anyone to vote. Critics call it a tool to suppress voters that aim to overcome the idea that illegal immigrants vote in the American elections-which is very rare. The draft law can make it more difficult for women who took the name of their last husband or transgender people whose names do not match their birth certificates to vote.
GlueSESENKAMP Perez described Bell Bell, but said that making sure that only citizens ’vote is a popular idea in her area. She also said she knew that she would not go through the Senate.
This angered Carol Brock, head of Democrats in Louis Province.
“I am all to work across the corridor. I live in Louis County – there are more Republicans here more than grass,” said Brook after the city hall in Centralia. “This does not mean that I am giving up on my values. If you do not believe in it, then why did you vote for her?”
“Democrats can do better in WA3 than Mary Gloskamb Perez.”
This week, the Democrats in Pacific County began thinking whether it would call on the State Party to refrain from supporting the GlueSESENKAMP Perez as long as another democracy challenges it.
Supporters urge her to choose her battles
Gluesenkamp Perez said that she spoke against Republicans when their actions have real effects on people in her area: cutting financing for the buffer of the National Administration of Oceanic and Atmosphere on which fishermen rely, Cut support for wild firefightersand Relief programs from hungerOr proposal Medicaid discounts “You will kill people,” she said.
She said: “There is a lot of terror, anger and anger. One of the things that does not have the power of law.” “It is really important not to burn social capital on the things that most people – or any people will not test.”
Perhaps no one has the escalating criticism of the Gluesenkamp Perez more than Republicans, who say it has been “abandoned” by Democrats.
“The weak Democrat Marie Glossincamp Perez is flammable and no one was shocked,” the National Republican Congress Committee said in a statement. “It is very weak for the far left, and it is very radical to Washington’s families, it does not belong anywhere.”
Some of its supporters say that GluesESENKAMP Perez should choose its battles – and the Democrats in its area as well.
“We are cutting our nose despite our face, to make statements about getting it out of his post,” said Bob Gunter, a labor activist in Louis Province. “We must be studied. We have to turn Congress or we are in trouble.”
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