Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
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And I say that because you are then only going to do what it takes to get reelected, which means that you are willing to compromise your principles because there will be decisions that you have to take where you're going to have to stand firm on your principles and be like, I can't vote for that.
And there's massive pressure campaigns like
When a certain bill comes up, if I'm voting against it, you have planted stories in the press.
You have super PACs that will come in and drop text messages in your district to your constituents saying, did you know that Representative so-and-so voted against this?
And so you have to be able to be like, all right, I'm just going to just disconnect.
And at a certain point, you do have to do that because then you'll go crazy.
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Makes sense on some issues.
Well, he's a big guy, too.
He probably sweats a lot.
Not saying that we know he sweats, but just, you know.
So I actually was on Oversight with all those people except for Fetterman.
And what I'll tell you is that Oversight tends to bring out the characters for sure.
And what I will say is that actually I have been able to on certain things like with AOC, I introduced a piece of legislation.