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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (392140)12/18/2018 11:22:45 AM
From: NAG1  Read Replies (1) of 540880
 
koan,

I don't have a passion for her and I see her weaknesses. What I have is respect for her. She is only just 29 years old and yet is thinking better than most of the people in congress. I see her as a needed "gadfly" at this point and as she matures a powerful force for humanity.
I have no problem with that. I think her perspective is needed in a Congress where many have forgotten where they have come from. I think that her life experience allows her to call out what she sees as inequities in the system. Again, she needs to be very careful about what her image is out there. She can be typecast by the media as the crazy liberal socialist democrat and then no one will listen to her and the Republicans can lampoon her to score political points or she can become the voice of the common man. Her choice.

The internship thing is very interesting. It can be an important part of work experience but I can see where it can be something that is limited to those that can afford it, which wouldn't be right, especially on capital hill. She can work to get that changed. But she needs to do it in a manner that shows her and her reasons in a positive light, not where she is being put on the defensive about it. Let her make the changes in her office/district and then talk to the other legislators to see if they would be willing to put a position or two from unpaid intern to paid staff member.

I hope she gets a good chief of her staff who will allow her to pursue the things she wants to do but will keep her on the right side of the media.
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