Posted on 08/01/2021 6:54:47 AM PDT by USA Conservative
U.S. Representative Cori Bush, who was evicted three times and lived in her car with her two children before her career in politics, spent a sleepless night on the U.S. Capitol steps to protest the end on Saturday of a pandemic freeze on evictions.
Bush, a progressive Democrat who won her Missouri seat last year, managed about an hour of sleep sitting upright on a camp chair.
Three other progressive lawmakers – Representatives Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – showed up to support her.
“We slept at the Capitol last night to ask them to come back and do their jobs. Today’s their last chance. We’re still here,” Bush tweeted Saturday alongside photos of herself and staffers in hoodies and blankets.
“The night went better than what a night would really looked like for somebody who was really unhoused,” Bush told reporters from her orange sleeping bag Saturday morning. “We need the powers that be to understand that we’re not going to let this go quietly.”
Photos of their night sleeping rough show the lawmakers thoroughly surrounded by piles of trash, including discarded Domino’s pizza boxes. Stacks of chips, cookies and other junk food stood ready to sustain them.
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Bush and Pressley dropped off to sleep around 5 a.m., as staffers sprawled on the steps and the stone plaza around them.
One glaring absence from the sleepover was New York’s own Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Squad stalwart posted a video Friday evening in which she offered supportive words of encouragement.
But perhaps the biggest moment of the night came when AOC started calling all of her BLM and Antifa friends to join her for an insurrection to steal people’s properties, and I’m just using their rhetorics when it comes to using the word insurrection!
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OPINION: This article contains commentary which reflects the author’s opinion
True, but I’ll still do my very best to be a complete pain in the ass. If it comes to that.
A relative of mine couldn’t find an apartment because nearly all of them now have a high income requirement. Probably due to all the deadbeats. This eviction moratorium is not making things better.
Everyone needs a hobby. Good luck. Evil do-ers should not have an easy ride. It should be as painful as possible for them.
Most places want income to be 3 1/2 time the rent. Easy to do if two work hard to do one one income. A senior mobile home park I am moving to I had to show 2 1/2 time income to rent. SS didn’t cut it.
Checking into her homeless story... It doesn't make sense. Her father was a politician. Why couldn't she and her children stay with family for a while? Some information is missing in that story.
she+husband+children evicted / several months living in car
She was born in '76, so she was 25 in 2001. She must've started working at the preschool at 15 or 16.
In the early '90s, rent was about $450/month. Back then, $9/hour was a livable wage.
In the late 90's, rent might've been $650/month, still manageable, even with two kids, if he worked minimum wage full-time and she worked only part-time.
Or, why couldn't they stay with family, instead of living in a car? This story is missing information.
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