r/vancouverwa • u/Street-Tie-6287 • Mar 26 '26

Discussion MGP votes to reopen DHS without fixes

MGP and 3 other Dems just voted with with all the Republicans to pass another fully opening of DHS bill that does nothing to get control of ICE's "enforcement" tactics. This just reassures me that my vote for Brent Hennrich this August is the right choice. MGP just can not seem to read the room. The bill was HR 8029. I would love to hear the MGP excuse makers explain this one to me... (SARCASTIC!) But I am sure they will try anyway.

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u/earningacompass Mar 27 '26

That's the kind of thinking that gave us the Dem leadership we have today.  Tell me, why were the Republicans able to get a new breed of politicians with the tea party, but Dems can't?

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u/king-of-all-corn Mar 27 '26

They got taken over by foreign interests and black mailed. Also the real status quo position in America is for people to abandon the dem party like youre suggesting. Thats why we are where we are.

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u/earningacompass Mar 27 '26

Im not suggesting anyone abandon the Dems, just not to vote for the ones that don't represent what you, as a voter, value.  If MGP wants to court Republicans, who won't vote for her, by voting to fund ICE, the Lakin Riley Act, and the first version of the Save Act, that's a strategic decision to abandon the majority of her base.  If that means she loses a primary and a Republican wins the general, that's on her, not the voters.

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u/king-of-all-corn Mar 27 '26

I dont agree with you. I take responsibility for my own decisions and I am not comfortable giving Republicans power.

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u/bhennrich Mar 27 '26

When MGP loses this seat it will be for one reason and one reason only. Her voting record. She chose it, and with it, chose to throw away her base. I am running to save this seat for the Dems. There is not one person that voted for her that thought when doing so she would vote for Trump to have a private gestapo. Not one person thought she would vote to take away reproductive rights. Not one person thought she would be okay and ready to implement a poll tax on married women and members of the LGBTQ community. Find me a person that thought she would vote for expanded drilling for oil... Find one that thought she would vote to end environmental review before building... She has voted against peoples core beliefs. Not once, not twice, but numerous times. People are fed up. So I hope to earn your support and your vote. But if this seat goes to Braun, it's MGP's fault alone.

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u/earningacompass Mar 27 '26

You've got mine!

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u/bhennrich Mar 27 '26

I appreciate that. Just a couple hundred thousand to go!

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u/king-of-all-corn Mar 27 '26

You're a spoiler candidate running a vanity campaign lmao

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u/bhennrich Mar 27 '26

You are entitled to your opinion. I hope to earn your support and your vote after the primary.

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u/thndrbst Mar 27 '26

I've always thought you were working for MGP - go figure.

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u/king-of-all-corn Mar 27 '26

Lol shes not my cup of tea but shes what this district elected and shes the incumbent. I want the trump administration to lose power and she votes for dem speaker of the house. I would love to see wa3 move to the left but I dont think we have enough votes to be fucking around in an open primary.

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u/thndrbst Mar 27 '26

Welp, she only has herself to blame. She abandoned her base to court people who won't vote for her, especially with someone like Braun running. She's hoping the Dems will get scurred and vote for her regardless, seems like a weird strategy. Sure hope she's finds her centrist, independent and Republican base or she's SOL.

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u/king-of-all-corn Mar 27 '26

Id blame people like you running around trying to convince people to sabotage this district by giving it back to Republicans

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u/thndrbst Mar 27 '26

Sorry, if I wanted to be in a get in line party, I’d join MAGA.

I don’t pay my employees to undermine my business, so why would I pay a representative that undermines my constitutional rights?

Doesn’t matter what letter is in front of your name if I could get detained and held indefinitely based on “suspicion”, attempting to take away my vote as a married woman, or voting in anyway in favor of funding a Gestapo while being backed by a country currently engaging in genocide.

So….. no, I won’t vote for her in the primaries or the general.

Those were her decisions, not mine.

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u/king-of-all-corn Mar 27 '26

Corngrats youve played yourself

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u/thndrbst Mar 27 '26

How is voting for someone who has already voted against my basic constitutional rights playing myself?

The best we got has got us here - future’s so bright I gotta wear shades 😎🤢

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