Crockett starts stumping for Oversight post, telling colleagues she’s ‘made for the moment’

Politico ^ | 05/01/2025 | Nicholas Wu

[DFG]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has started pitching fellow Democrats on a run for the party’s top Oversight Committee position, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Crockett’s entreaties — playing out in phone calls, text messages and floor conversations — mark the beginning of a contested race to succeed Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) as Oversight’s ranking member. Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts is also seeking the job, though Connolly — who announced plans to step aside after suffering a recurrence of esophageal cancer — has not yet formally done so.

Crockett has told other lawmakers that she’s “made for the moment,” the people said, an apparent reference to the desire among Democratic voters for more forceful resistance to President Donald Trump.

She told POLITICO in a text message that, while there isn’t a vacancy, “knowing that Rep Connolly doesn’t plan to seek re-election & knowing that our oversight powers are broad, I’m ready to shine a light on the very dark things taking place in our country under this administration.”

She added, “I wouldn’t want anyone to think that I’m not interested in leading our investigative body while also communicating & educating the country on our findings.”

Semafor first reported that Crockett intended to seek the top Oversight post.

Crockett could be part of a crowded field of younger progressive Democrats who seek the job, including Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Ro Khanna of California and Maxwell Frost of Florida.

But Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York could clear the field if she chooses to run. She lost to Connolly when she ran for the Oversight job last year and has since said she’s “weighing” a bid to run.

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[lurk]

She got confidence.

[blackdog]

So was Madonna in the New York Nick’s locker room. That doesn’t mean it’s a good choice.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[MrRelevant]

She is made for cashiering at Walmart

[digger48]

She ain’t pickin no cotton from Gerrys medicine bottles

[Carry_Okie]

Well, that’s one way to avoid being called to testify before the Oversight Committee.

[frank ballenger]

Confidence without competence.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Women make piss poor “oversight” types.

[rellic]

They need more Democrats like her in positions of power in the party to show all of the USA what kind of people they really are, not what what they claim to be.

[frank ballenger]

Someone else commenting on another site I won’t endorse by mentioning, said:
Whatever products she is using to straighten her hair is frying her brains.

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Also, do people think she looks more intellectual wearing glasses? The black rim ones look better than the tortoise ones, I think.

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+jasmine+crockett+glasses&sca_esv=b02fb6a0238aa473&udm=2&biw=1052&bih=479&ei=y9MTaNfsDYytptQP9aaOqA8&ved=0ahUKEwiX_t7

[Vision]

She is made for being an extra in a rap video.

[Singermom]

Send her back to the fields to pick cotton I bet she is the biggest HO(E). Leave the wigs and go el natural.

[sauropod]

.

[Zathras]

Incontinence Confidence.

[frank ballenger]

Ugh.

Overflow alert.

[No name given]

I don’t even want to imagine that.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Holiday In Ecpress on the taxpayers dime does this.

How about El Salvador oversite.

[TornadoAlley3]

The Democrat Zoo is full of paper tigers.

[griswold3]

Nope. But she’s good at steppin and fetchin