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In reply to the discussion: NY-16: 'We just need a win': The left unites to take down Eliot Engel [View all]Squinch
(60,054 posts)voted for the Iraq War, there is nothing wrong with attending Jewish events, especially when you are a Jew yourself, and that comment was taken out of context. He was asking for a speaking slot on a crowded platform and was saying that he wouldn't ask for the favor if he didn't have a primary coming.
It's like the ad that says he wasn't home during Covid. No. He wasn't home. He was getting funding to beef up our hospitals and to construct a field hospital and a field morgue that he knew we were going to need. And that went up in record time and helped us get through the worst of the virus.
He's great on climate, he was one of the first people to effectively call for impeachment, he is extremely active in protecting DACA status, and he does right by his constituents.
And replacing the Chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee with a middle school principal with no experience, NOW, is madness.