The kid has me in the front row to hear Abdul El-Sayed speak. I am a back row girl. I was vetoed.
The kid has me in the front row to hear Abdul El-Sayed speak. I am a back row girl. I was vetoed.
Off to see Abdul El-Sayed today. He is running for Senate for Michigan. My oldest is obsessed. We missed him when he was in Houghton Lake forever ago, but he is in Gaylord today. My BIL asked if we wanted to go see him when he is in the Soo, but it is the same day as graduation for the 18 year old.
Props to him for routinely coming into northern Michigan. Most politicians just ignore us and never bother.

“I oppose blank-check military aid to Israel, just as I oppose blank-check military aid to any foreign country. Every dollar spent on bombs abroad is a dollar we failed to invest in our own kids here at home. We have a responsibility to both invest our money in Americans and hold ourselves to international law.”
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Israel's war in Gaza has become a major dividing line in Michigan’s Democratic Senate race as more voters begin sympathizing with Palestinians.Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat and former public health director in Wayne County, has consistently opposed U.S. military aid and criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, calling the war in Gaza "a genocide." Meanwhile, his opponent, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, has embraced Zionism and received more than $1.2 million from pro-Israel groups. And state Sen. Mallory McMorrow traveled to Israel on a trip sponsored by a prominent pro-Israel organization and attended a private pro-Israel leadership event early in her Senate campaign, only to shift her rhetoric as public opinions change.
The three Democrats vying for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat agree that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has grown increasingly brutal under President Donald Trump, but they are sharply divided over whether the agency can be fixed at all.