Steve Leidner

That case pretty much got all but thrown out.

I believe this one will be thrown out as well because it is a clear slab loss.

We have the First Amendment right to free speech, and it is incumbent upon her to prove that what I was saying was false.

I can't prove that it's false.

I can't prove that she didn't take the money.

I mean, she has to prove that she didn't take the $5.7 million, and the state agrees with me.

I'm just reporting what the state has said in their lawsuit and what the House—

on the House Ethics Committee have said this is what she did.

Well, thank you, Roy.

And honestly, this isn't even about partisanship.

This is about accountability in government.

You should be able to trust your elected officials not to abuse power, not to bully their own constituents with lawsuits, but also not to take your money to chase power.

That's not something I'm going to do.

We should be focused on the cost of living, on affordability, on tackling the affordability crisis, these high rents, climate change.

These are the things we need to be focusing on.

But instead...

We have people in Washington who is focused on enriching themselves.

That's not the type of person I am.

That's not the background I come from.

I come from a background of childhood homelessness, and I want to go to Washington to make sure that the people in our district, in our community, some of the poorest people in the country are actually taken care of.