Comparison:
‘We are super-thorough and kind of traditional in how we draft bills — meeting with stakeholders, doing outreach,‘ she said. ‘It is the priorities and ideas that are untraditional and different. That is what makes things take more time. I’m not running a Spirit Halloween store over here.‘
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez explaining that the legislation building process she and her staff use is both labor intensive and here to stay. By using a negated metaphor (“not running“) about a highly temporary and transient business (“Halloween store“), she makes her point and assigns positive value to her efforts. Interesting choice.
Context:
.The problem for Gluesenkamp Perez is that, so far, her working-class agenda hasn’t resulted in much legislative action. The signature bills she has introduced or supported — table saws, right to repair, one to expand Pell grants to cover skills training at community colleges — are stuck in legislative purgatory. When I pressed her on what she was doing substantively — and not just rhetorically — to, as she puts it, ‘get the voice of normal people at the table,‘ she became defensive. ‘We are super-thorough and kind of traditional in how we draft bills — meeting with stakeholders, doing outreach,‘ she said. 'It is the priorities and ideas that are untraditional and different. That is what makes things take more time. I’m not running a Spirit Halloween store over here.'
Citation:
Zengerie, Jason. “The Blue-Collar Democrat Who Wants to Fix the Party’s Other Big Problem.” New York Times Magazine, 01 July 2024. Web.
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