Congresswoman Janelle Bynum
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
BOOM! GOP Gets Stunned as Dems Finally Start Fighting
Number two, what they're trying to do is keep people suspicious of education and keep people undereducated. An educated populace can challenge its government, and they don't want that. And then the third thing is they're trying to move us back where we don't have investments in the latest research.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Well, yeah. I mean, she was a fraud and a fake and now is our labor secretary.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Well, you know, it's really curious. I'm concerned how labor will recover. And labor is supposed to represent working families in this country. So we have the 40-hour work week. We have protections against children being exploited in labor. We have protections now for overtime. We have all of those things because of the modern labor movement.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
And, you know, sometimes it feels like this administration, not sometimes, they want to go to a period in time where things just weren't fair for the average working American. And I think that's where she's going to take us.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
So I'm a mom, I'm an electrical engineer, I'm a four-term state legislator, and now Congresswoman. Here's the thing that matters the most that people need to remember. This is all about math. pure and simple. And so I had run against Laurie Chavez de Reimer twice before and had two more very difficult elections in a purple seat.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
You have to, number one, know where you can win, which precincts you can win in. That's kind of the math part. The other part is the messaging. I'm a mom. I've got two kids in college and they're trying to make their way in the world. And I've just talked about the real world things that we are experiencing as a working family.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
And so that's why I focused on cost jobs, quality of life across the political spectrum. Doesn't matter whether you're red, blue, independent. That was the message that resonated with people. They wanted to know that a real and authentic working person was going to represent them in Congress.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Well, we had two town halls this weekend and I've made thousands of calls across the district. One that I remember the most is a mom telling me that she hoped that her son would build like a mother-in-law unit or get a house with an extra unit on it because her social security wasn't keeping up with the rise in rent. And she was scared.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Another man this weekend at the town hall said he was concerned as to whether his social security money would show up in his account. So people are scared. You know, chaos has been sown. And I think the people deserve better than that. What's also really important is this brain drain that the Trump administration has initiated. We in Oregon experience wildfires.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
We need people getting ready for wildfire season to protect life, to protect property, to protect our air. And they let everybody go. That makes zero sense. So people are angry and they want us to fight.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
They just having a good old time. Reminds me of kids in middle school. But here's here's the problem. Number one, Linda McMahon didn't even know what the IDEA stood for. And that is the law that protects disabled children and makes sure that they get a fair and free appropriate education in this country. Full stop.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Number two, what they're trying to do is keep people suspicious of education and keep people undereducated. An educated populace can challenge its government, and they don't want that. And then the third thing is they're trying to move us back where we don't have investments in the latest research.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
You know, when I went to the Library of Congress, one of the things that's up on the ceiling in one of the rooms, it talks about the United States' contribution to the world. And the picture that it has there is of science. This is what we do. We innovate. We research. We build the best and the brightest. And they're trying to take us back.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
So number one, there is some personal responsibility in this because many of these purple districts like mine, some of them went to Trump and they still voted for a Democrat. So people are going to have to decide what they want next time. But most importantly, Republicans across the country need to be able to stand up and push back.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
They shouldn't be able to just sit down and get away with walking away and saying, oh, well, I think things are going great, because you know damn well they're not going great. When your seniors are upset, when your young people aren't having a chance, when you're picking on the disabled, and when you're letting our life and property go up in flames and you're not doing anything about it,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
Republicans themselves should still be upset at all of this. And we have to push them. You either have to push them to move or push them out. How do they say it? You either need to let me help you out or let me help you out.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
We live in the greatest country on earth, I believe. And I think this is a time for us to all band together and be proud of what we've built as a country instead of trying to tear it down. And part of why I originally ran was this sense of patriotism to stop Trump, to stop his evil acts.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
and to put forth a better way of life for our young people and to showcase all of the great things that this country has to offer and has built for the world. I am a much more optimistic person maybe than the average person. I don't think you should be in this job if you're not an optimist. But I believe in the greatness of America. I believe in the greatness of our young people.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
I believe in the beauty of America. And so stopping people and making them think twice about moving across our borders is actually very harmful. So I just say, Again, let us help you out or let us help you out. My Republican colleagues need to stand up and Democrats need to get very, very focused about flipping these seats so that we get the numbers back.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
And my real fear is it is gonna be generations for us to recover our place in this world, our leadership as a democracy that values the rule of law and this sort of expansion policy. Denmark, Canada, they're now the enemies, the states that we have to draw a hard line with. And we elected this strong man who rolls over on his back for Putin,
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
abandons our democratic ally in Ukraine and we're sending the vice president and his wife to a contained base in Greenland because the people of Greenland don't want them outside of that base. I mean, what?