jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoTrump picks Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead Labor Departmentwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down12
arrow-up128arrow-down1external-linkTrump picks Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead Labor Departmentwww.npr.orgjordanlund@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 days agoYeah, you’re so liberal. She waa a terrible fucking Representative who got here seat due to fucking gerrymandering.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoThat’s not the way Oregon congressional districts work. She got her office because Kurt Schrader was trash-tier: https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/08/oregon-kurt-schrader-impeaching-trump-lynching/ Who then got primaried from the left and lost: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/jamie-mcleod-skinner-defeats-kurt-schrader-oregon-primary/283-7104186a-9916-469f-ac2a-75452e1047e4 But, it turned out, nobody actually liked McLeod-Skinner, who comes across as a perennial candidate, and she blew it in the general vs. Chavez-Deremer. https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/10/11/former-campaign-staff-blast-mcleod-skinners-management-style-as-she-gears-up-for-a-rerun/ Gee… where have we heard those complaints before? https://web.archive.org/web/20240121040648/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290
Yeah, you’re so liberal.
She waa a terrible fucking Representative who got here seat due to fucking gerrymandering.
That’s not the way Oregon congressional districts work.
She got her office because Kurt Schrader was trash-tier:
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/01/08/oregon-kurt-schrader-impeaching-trump-lynching/
Who then got primaried from the left and lost:
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/jamie-mcleod-skinner-defeats-kurt-schrader-oregon-primary/283-7104186a-9916-469f-ac2a-75452e1047e4
But, it turned out, nobody actually liked McLeod-Skinner, who comes across as a perennial candidate, and she blew it in the general vs. Chavez-Deremer.
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/10/11/former-campaign-staff-blast-mcleod-skinners-management-style-as-she-gears-up-for-a-rerun/
Gee… where have we heard those complaints before?
https://web.archive.org/web/20240121040648/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290