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I continue to be appalled by #MAPoli member of #Congress #AyannaPressley's ongoing failure to rise to the moment.
Let's talk about her newsletter to constituents today: https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=100970&c=MA07AP
There literally isn't a single word in it about what #DonaldTrump and the #GOP are doing and what she's doing about it.
We're in an existential fight to save our democracy, and Pressley does not think it important to ensure her constituents are informed about it.
#politics #USPol #Democrats (1/5)
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Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 476h ago
There also isn't a single word in her newsletter about Trump's illegal war on Iran, or his completely unhinged rantings on Easter morning, or about the fact that a properly functioning House of Representatives would have impeached him within hours of that message.
Every Democrat should be in the news cycle 24/7 demanding Trump's impeachment. What we get instead is self-obsessed prose about Pressley's public appearances. (2/5)
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 476h ago
Now let's talk about the "Housing Emergencies Lifeline Program (HELP) Act" bill which Pressley brags about in this newsletter.
Here is what a truly progressive politician, rising to meet the moment, would say: "Housing is a human right. It is the role of government to ensure that there is safe housing available to everyone regardless of ability to pay. We need to bring that ground truth, which we've strayed from, back to federal housing policy." (3/5)
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 476h ago
What Pressley gives us instead is a bill to make it harder for landlords to evict tenants. Not a single word about the ongoing crisis of housing affordability and availability. Not a single word about how to help people who can't afford housing in the first place.
I'm not saying Pressley's bill is bad. Nothing in it is objectionable in isolation. I'm saying it's not _enough_. Her lack of vision cedes ground from the start in the debate about the future of housing. We can't afford that. (4/5)
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 476h ago
Pressley has been fully captured by the system she supposedly went to Congress to disrupt. I don't know if she was once the kind of visionary we need to save our country from the mess it's in, but she certainly isn't any longer. She's just another politician unable to see past the "politics of the possible" and demonstrate real, visionary leadership.
We can, should, and must do better. (5/5)
Show threadHakeemG6h ago

@jik

It's a newsletter specifically about what she did in the community. Even with that qualification it states:

We discussed some of our legislative priorities, including my efforts to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, address the rising unemployment rate for Black women, fight for accountability and healing of survivors of sexual abuse, secure federal funding for our essential community programs, and more.

Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 475h ago
@HakeemG
This is Pressley's only newsletter. There's no other one where she talks to her constituents about the topics I mentioned.
I've been subscribed to it for over a year, and she hasn't once addressed Trump or the GOP or what they are doing in any substantive way. All she does is puff herself up. Politics, not leadership.
Pressley's certainly better than Capuano was by the end of his tenure. But with a safe seat in Congress, she could have been so much more than she has chosen to be.
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Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 475h ago
@HakeemG Your entire timeline is filled with disingenuous attacks on leftists and full-throated defense of the Democratic party, so I hope you will forgive me for concluding that further dialogue with you on this topic or any other is misguided.
Frankly, I think you're either a Russian disinformation troll or someone ignorantly carrying water for them.
*plonk*
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