Swordsmyth
07-31-2018, 06:52 PM
Sarah Smith, a liberal millennial Democrat from Washington State, is hoping to duplicate (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/progressive-challenger-hopes-to-repeat-ocasio-cortezs-success-in-washington-state/) the success of another liberal millennial Democrat from New York, in removing a long-term Democrat from office in the state’s August 7 primary. On a recent forum on Reddit she wrote: “I’m Sarah Smith and I’m running for US Congress in the 9th [District] on the same slate as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”
Smith grew up in Southern California and attended the University of Arizona before moving to Renton, Washington, where she worked at a body shop as an insurance adjuster. On her website she expanded on her background:
I am a working-class woman. I live the same life as my constituents; I have to re-balance my finances every year as living gets more expensive. I felt the recession in 2008. My family was forced to move, leaving on my own at the age of 17, new to Washington State and rapidly building student debt.
I saw first-hand the devastation our economy faced as a foreclosure specialist, a paralegal, and a bodily insurance adjuster.
Faced with the constant struggle of people like myself, I was drawn to activism.
That activism included supporting Bernie Sanders during his run for the presidency in 2016, which caught the attention of the same group that discovered, supported, and funded Ocasio-Cortez: Brand New Congress. That group, founded by 20 former Sanders supporters following his defeat by Clinton in the summer of 2016, requires each of its carefully selected candidates to “align with Sanders’ presidential platform.” That platform included ending the “War on Drugs,” “removing money from politics,” supporting climate-change legislation, and, most importantly, demanding “Medicare for All.”
Smith is running against a 20-year liberal Democrat from Washington State’s Ninth District, Adam Smith who sports a Freedom Index rating of 21 out of 100.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/29673-left-coast-clone-of-ocasio-cortez-tries-to-pull-a-similar-upset
Smith grew up in Southern California and attended the University of Arizona before moving to Renton, Washington, where she worked at a body shop as an insurance adjuster. On her website she expanded on her background:
I am a working-class woman. I live the same life as my constituents; I have to re-balance my finances every year as living gets more expensive. I felt the recession in 2008. My family was forced to move, leaving on my own at the age of 17, new to Washington State and rapidly building student debt.
I saw first-hand the devastation our economy faced as a foreclosure specialist, a paralegal, and a bodily insurance adjuster.
Faced with the constant struggle of people like myself, I was drawn to activism.
That activism included supporting Bernie Sanders during his run for the presidency in 2016, which caught the attention of the same group that discovered, supported, and funded Ocasio-Cortez: Brand New Congress. That group, founded by 20 former Sanders supporters following his defeat by Clinton in the summer of 2016, requires each of its carefully selected candidates to “align with Sanders’ presidential platform.” That platform included ending the “War on Drugs,” “removing money from politics,” supporting climate-change legislation, and, most importantly, demanding “Medicare for All.”
Smith is running against a 20-year liberal Democrat from Washington State’s Ninth District, Adam Smith who sports a Freedom Index rating of 21 out of 100.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/29673-left-coast-clone-of-ocasio-cortez-tries-to-pull-a-similar-upset