This.
How often do we see a senior (i.e. past the usual retirement age for working stiffs) politician actually taking the time to openly promote a young one with potential. This is how a party develops a “deep bench.”
She’s a lightning rod.
While the Murdoch Media and half of the talk-radio agitators are foaming at the mouth about a freshman congresswoman, others in Congress are quietly getting work done. Saturday I got a chance to have short talk with Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (my Representative) and heard about a lot of the mundane, no headlines, necessary work being done and – guess what – it was not all trench warfare. Without cameras to play to, they were finding plenty of things to agree upon to smooth out details like getting more medical residencies, more primary care access in rural areas, that sort of thing.
