Miguelito wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 1:20 pm
“This is the face of socialism and ignorance,” the narrator intones. “Does Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez know the horror of socialism?”
The jarring ad, which aired on ABC during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston, compares the freshman Democrat’s support of democratic socialism to the communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia that killed nearly 2 million people in the 1970s.
The strange thing is that it was a Cambodian-American that made the ad. Politics, 2019 style.
Republican PAC runs debate ad comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to genocidal Khmer Rouge
Elizabeth Heng has quite the resume; from Stanford student body prez to one of the directors of Donald Trump's Inagural committee. She lost a congressional bid in 2018. From National Review:
A Fresh-Faced Political Outsider Tries to Turn Her Blue California District Red
Elections
A Fresh-Faced Political Outsider Tries to Turn Her Blue California District Red
By Alexandra DeSanctis
July 11, 2018 6:30 AM
Elizabeth Heng
In the central San Joaquin Valley, 32-year-old Stanford grad Elizabeth Heng is standing up for conservative values against an entrenched Democratic incumbent.
O
ver the last several months, a host of Republican congressmen have announced that they won’t seek reelection this cycle, leaving their House seats open and vulnerable to Democratic pickup.
While polling data remain far from uniform on the chances of a “blue wave” sweeping Democrats into Washington in November, Republican politicians are right to be concerned. But in California’s 16th district, a young Republican woman is rising to the challenge, opposing Democratic congressman Jim Costa, who has held the seat since 2013 (and represented a somewhat different district for the previous four terms before redistricting).
The 16th district is located in California’s central San Joaquin Valley. It includes the western half of Fresno as well as the cities of Los Banos, Madera, and Merced, and it hasn’t been represented by a Republican in Congress since the mid 1970s, before redistricting gave it its current shape.
But 32-year-old Elizabeth Heng hopes to change that.
Heng’s parents immigrated to the United States to escape violence in Cambodia. About a decade ago, after she graduated from Stanford University, where she had served as student-body president, she returned to the Central Valley and opened a series of cell-phone stores with her brothers. Eventually, she found herself responsible for managing about 75 employees. “That was when I saw firsthand how government regulations impacted businesses negatively,” she says. “I constantly felt that from Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, they were saying that I was everything wrong with our country, when all I was doing was creating jobs.”
She subsequently decided to leave California to work in Washington, D.C., not expecting to stay long. “But it takes a long time to understand how to get legislation across the finish line,” she explains. Before she knew it, she had been in the nation’s capital for about six years, on and off. At one point, she worked on the House Foreign Affairs Committee with congressman Ed Royce (R., Calif.). At another, she aided Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in Nevada.
In 2016, Heng became a director for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony — a role she held even as she traveled to Connecticut in her off hours to obtain an MBA at Yale. (“Never be one of the inauguration directors and get your MBA at the same time,” Heng says of that experience. “It was the worst of all worlds.”) When the inauguration finally took place, she remembers how powerful it was to watch her immigrant parents sitting on the stage with the incoming president.
‛In a family or a business, we don’t suddenly act surprised when a budget comes up for the year,’ she points out. ‛We get it done. But Congress doesn’t.’
“One of my brothers posted online that day: ‘Thirty-three years ago, my parents came to the U.S. as penniless refugees. Today they’re sitting on the platform with the next President of the United States.’ It was at that moment that I realized why I continue to dedicate my life to public service,” Heng says.
But she still wasn’t sure she wanted to run for office.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/ ... rnia-race/
Freedom is not a state. It is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau.. Freedom is a continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.-John Lewis