Congresswoman Bynum On Defeating MAGA
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if democrats plan to take back the house of representatives they're going to have to flip seats so i think we should study the democrats in the house who have been able to actually flip seats to see what they've done and maybe that shows a road map why don't we just take a look for example at oregon's fifth congressional district and it's been in the news a lot lately because It used to be held by a MAGA Republican Congresswoman, and that MAGA Republican Congresswoman, she'd like to pretend that she wasn't really MAGA. She liked to claim that she stood on the side of labor. I was always very suspicious of that shtick, and someone who was very suspicious of it was someone who ran against her, now the Democratic Congresswoman from the Fifth, who flipped it, who called her out in the debates, Congresswoman Janelle Bynum, now a Democrat. after flipping that seat from Oregon's 5th Congressional District.
And you may know about that district also in the sense that Lori Chavez de Riemer, now the Labor Secretary, although she's not looking out for the interests of labor, was that MAGA Republican congresswoman pretending not to be MAGA in Oregon. She claimed to be on the side of labor. But do y'all remember we covered this on the Midas Touch podcast before, the confirmation hearing where all of a sudden she said she's on the side of the oligarchy and she no longer supports the PRO Act. Remember this moment where Rand Paul, MAGA Republican Rand Paul, said the following to her. Let's play this clip.
So you no longer support the aspect of the PRO Act that would have overturned state right to work laws?
Yeah, there were so many parts.
That's a yes? Yes.
Yes, sir.
The Secretary of Labor no longer supports the piece of legislation most important to labor and was pretending to support it in Oregon. So who was calling her out? Who knew that this was going on? Well, let's show you the moment where that seat flip. Let's play it.
Fox 12 has now called a closely watched race in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Our political analyst, John Horvick, is projecting that Janelle Bynum will oust the incumbent for the Oregon Congressional District 5 seat.
Fox 12's Spencer Schott was at Bynum's victory speech today. Spencer, what did she have to say?
Well, Bynum says it's an honor to win this election, and she's excited to continue the work that she started here at the Oregon Statehouse, but now on a national stage over in D.C.
We're joined by Congresswoman Janelle Bynum from Oregon's 5th Congressional District. You knew you were warning people. The people knew. The people, though, voted for you. So they got it. But you were telling everybody who she really was. Huh? Feel vindicated?
Well, yeah. I mean, she was a fraud and a fake and now is our labor secretary.
And tell us about how damaging that is for labor.
Well, you know, it's really curious. I'm concerned how labor will recover. And labor is supposed to represent working families in this country. So we have the 40-hour work week. We have protections against children being exploited in labor. We have protections now for overtime. We have all of those things because of the modern labor movement. And, you know, sometimes it feels like this administration, not sometimes, they want to go to a period in time where things just weren't fair for the average working American. And I think that's where she's going to take us.
Tell us, how did you do it? What's the playbook? It was a red district. I mean, it's in Oregon. It's a blue state, but it was a red spot or purple. What in the world was going on and how did you do it? What's the secret?
So I'm a mom, I'm an electrical engineer, I'm a four-term state legislator, and now Congresswoman. Here's the thing that matters the most that people need to remember. This is all about math. pure and simple. And so I had run against Laurie Chavez de Reimer twice before and had two more very difficult elections in a purple seat. You have to, number one, know where you can win, which precincts you can win in. That's kind of the math part. The other part is the messaging. I'm a mom. I've got two kids in college and they're trying to make their way in the world. And I've just talked about the real world things that we are experiencing as a working family.
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