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Cori Bush Challenged By Dem "Moderate" with 2 Allegations of Sexual Assault. [1]
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Date: 2022-07-16
Since joining Democrats on the Hill, Cori Bush become prominent in the progressive movement. But in doing so, she’s also become a target of the center-left flank of Democratic politics she’s worked to retire.
That’s amounted to Bush facing a challenge from state Sen. Steven Roberts (D).
According to the Daily Beast:
Roberts’ family has been an institution in the St. Louis area for years; with his father being a prominent entrepreneur in the area who now serves on the equity and diversity council at the Federal Communications Commission. The state senator has steadily risen through the ranks of St. Louis politics while serving in the Air National Guard, and he’s branded himself as the more pragmatic alternative to Bush’s progressive approach.
And Roberts has come out swinging. A recent Roberts campaign ad, for instance, highlighted a number of Bush’s congressional votes and pitted Bush as being against Biden’s agenda, before tacking on the line, “She claims to love you. So does your ex.” Bush has used the tagline “Your Congresswoman loves you,” in her constituent messaging.
Though Bush has defied party leadership on high-profile votes like the bipartisan infrastructure plan and more security funding for Supreme Court Justices, she has voted in-line with Biden 93 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight
But beneath the image of a young, aspirational politician Roberts has presented himself to be, there’s some baggage.
Roberts has settled two separate cases alleging sexual misconduct—one involving allegations that he groped a woman at a bar, and the other from a now-deceased state Rep. Cora Faith Walker, who alleged he raped her in 2016.
Roberts has denied culpability in both cases.
Bush’s supporters, meanwhile, argue the congresswoman’s activist-like approach to Washington is why they elected her in the first place, and why they hope to elect her again. Said Rosetta Okohson: CEO of MO Political Consulting.
“There is one clear person who has shown up for the people of St. Louis in the congressional district and in less than two years has been able to do more than we’ve seen in 50 years.”
Personally speaking, in a Red State where I often feel I have no elected representation from my home state in Washington at all, following Cori, and supporting her makes me feel someone from Missouri is actually carrying the Progressive agenda forward.
The last thing I feel we need is someone who is possibly a Democratic Clarence Thomas or Brett Kavanaugh taking her seat.
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