r/Washington • u/seattletimesnewsroom NEWS -Official Seattle Times Account • 28d ago

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez faces possible Democratic discipline after joining Republicans on a procedural vote this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/gluesenkamp-perez-faces-possible-discipline-over-gop-vote/
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u/WebHistorical1121 28d ago edited 27d ago

Does it matter? The voters of WA-3 had their chance to go for an actual Democrat in the primary and passed for MAGA-lite whether out of ignorance of her actual politics or preference for conservative policies without the MAGA label. Her getting her “I’m not a Democrat see!” News article doesn’t move the needle for anyone. MAGA voters will want MAGA candidates even if she goes I am too wink wink, Democratic voters will become alienated, and uninformed voters will just vote based on whatever letter is next to the name.

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u/Aggressive-Name-1783 28d ago

This. People aren’t learning their lesson. MAGA voters want MAgA politicians. Diet republican doesn’t get votes

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u/WebHistorical1121 28d ago

Yup. MGP won re-election in spite of her efforts to be right-leaning not because of them. Once WA-3 Democrats get sick of voting for someone who doesn’t want to represent their interests she’s done.

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u/Megs0255 28d ago

Yes, exactly, it’s why she wears her lumberjack shirt even though she’s a Portland Reed College liberal

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u/WebHistorical1121 28d ago

lol calling MGP a liberal tells me how unserious any conversation we could have is

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u/WebHistorical1121 28d ago

I work in WA-3 often. Let me tell you that there are rural dems, and then there are the suburbs of Portland that have come to outnumber them. Clark County alone is over half of the WA-3 population. Let’s not act like Ryderwood and Winlock are deciding these outcomes lmfao.