Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Yeah. So six out of seven counties are highly rural. You have Vancouver is kind of the big city. Vancouver, Washington is the big city in my district. And it's voted for Trump three times in a row. I outperformed Trump and Harris in the last election. And so, yeah, I have a unique coalition. I have a very independent community.

Yeah. So six out of seven counties are highly rural. You have Vancouver is kind of the big city. Vancouver, Washington is the big city in my district. And it's voted for Trump three times in a row. I outperformed Trump and Harris in the last election. And so, yeah, I have a unique coalition. I have a very independent community.

So I think, like I was saying before, where it's like 8% here and 8% on the other side, but like most of us feel like It's all sound and fury and nobody actually gives a shit about our lives. The kind of unglamorous, deep, bitter erosion of fentanyl addiction and farm consolidation and job loss. I really believe in showing up. I do town halls in all my counties. I've done 15 now.

So I think, like I was saying before, where it's like 8% here and 8% on the other side, but like most of us feel like It's all sound and fury and nobody actually gives a shit about our lives. The kind of unglamorous, deep, bitter erosion of fentanyl addiction and farm consolidation and job loss. I really believe in showing up. I do town halls in all my counties. I've done 15 now.

And I think it's really important that people know that you're available and accountable and present and meeting them where they are. And when I'm talking to people, I kind of in my head, I have these two buckets of like, was this person paid to talk to me or do they have to get a babysitter to come here?

And I think it's really important that people know that you're available and accountable and present and meeting them where they are. And when I'm talking to people, I kind of in my head, I have these two buckets of like, was this person paid to talk to me or do they have to get a babysitter to come here?

And I weight the input proportional to reflect like how many people in my community are paid to engage in politics.

And I weight the input proportional to reflect like how many people in my community are paid to engage in politics.

like a lobbyist or somebody that's a director, you know, they're paid to be in government relations. They're paid, they're on the clock when they show up in my office. And if somebody had to like take time off work to come talk to me, I take that really seriously. And I try to spend my time going out and talking to them, like going to where they're at to be available.

like a lobbyist or somebody that's a director, you know, they're paid to be in government relations. They're paid, they're on the clock when they show up in my office. And if somebody had to like take time off work to come talk to me, I take that really seriously. And I try to spend my time going out and talking to them, like going to where they're at to be available.

That's one of the reasons like I believe in town halls and like at its best, it's a really powerful forum for civic engagement. dialogue. And I think at its worst, it turns into a mob where you have folks who are

That's one of the reasons like I believe in town halls and like at its best, it's a really powerful forum for civic engagement. dialogue. And I think at its worst, it turns into a mob where you have folks who are

spending a lot of time reading news articles and they have the income to come out and it's not reflective of most people's experience and it's also a valid experience and it's also a valid opinion that I do take into consideration, but you still have to account for the fullness of your community and whether or not people have time to respond to a survey or make a public comment on some agency's website, their opinion still matters.

spending a lot of time reading news articles and they have the income to come out and it's not reflective of most people's experience and it's also a valid experience and it's also a valid opinion that I do take into consideration, but you still have to account for the fullness of your community and whether or not people have time to respond to a survey or make a public comment on some agency's website, their opinion still matters.

So for a while I was getting a shit ton of letters about Hunter Biden's laptop. And I think it's easy from people who are mad he wasn't being investigated. And I think it's easy to kind of like dismiss that as like silly.

So for a while I was getting a shit ton of letters about Hunter Biden's laptop. And I think it's easy from people who are mad he wasn't being investigated. And I think it's easy to kind of like dismiss that as like silly.

But I think if you lift the hood up on that, what a lot of those folks are saying is that they feel like there's a legal system that works better for you if you have a different last name or you have the right lawyer.

But I think if you lift the hood up on that, what a lot of those folks are saying is that they feel like there's a legal system that works better for you if you have a different last name or you have the right lawyer.

And so if we offhandedly dismiss these concerns as silly or biased, we miss an opportunity to build a coalition of people who are actually all quite unified in wanting reform of our judicial system. I think that's the intersection of trying to delete the proper nouns out of the argument, figure out how terms are being used differently, what things mean to people.

And so if we offhandedly dismiss these concerns as silly or biased, we miss an opportunity to build a coalition of people who are actually all quite unified in wanting reform of our judicial system. I think that's the intersection of trying to delete the proper nouns out of the argument, figure out how terms are being used differently, what things mean to people.