Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez’s name comes up on these “defections” with regularity. She is essentially a moderate Republican, but that’s not a thing anymore, so she’s a Democrat. Her district is historically rather red, so we are unfortunately unlikely to get anyone better there anytime soon.
I know some people in Vancouver, WA that hate having her as their rep, but unfortunately her district is large and otherwise pretty rural, so they’ll continue to suffer having her to “represent” them
Yep. Within the city limits of Vancouver WA it’s becoming more reliably blue, but as soon as you hit unincorporated Clark county…well there’s a confederate monument. And Clark County is probably less red than the other counties also in the district.
I do have my frustrations with Gluesenkamp-Perez, but we were depressing close to having the clown-show that is Joe Kent as our representative.
I think things are slowly changing, but unfortunately there’s still so many people here who’s whole schtick when it comes to politics are “HURRR DURRRR WE AREN’T PORTLAND LIBTARDS”.
Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez’s name comes up on these “defections” with regularity. She is essentially a moderate Republican, but that’s not a thing anymore, so she’s a Democrat. Her district is historically rather red, so we are unfortunately unlikely to get anyone better there anytime soon.
I know some people in Vancouver, WA that hate having her as their rep, but unfortunately her district is large and otherwise pretty rural, so they’ll continue to suffer having her to “represent” them
That name raises my German eyebrow
Yep. Within the city limits of Vancouver WA it’s becoming more reliably blue, but as soon as you hit unincorporated Clark county…well there’s a confederate monument. And Clark County is probably less red than the other counties also in the district. I do have my frustrations with Gluesenkamp-Perez, but we were depressing close to having the clown-show that is Joe Kent as our representative.
I think things are slowly changing, but unfortunately there’s still so many people here who’s whole schtick when it comes to politics are “HURRR DURRRR WE AREN’T PORTLAND LIBTARDS”.
Too bad, huh?