A WORD WITH ELISE STEFANIK (2)

Powerline ^ | 11/21/2020 | Scott Johnson

[RightGeek]

This concludes my report on an interview with Rep. Elise Stefanik yesterday afternoon. I posted the first installment here, including my daughter Eliana’s 2014 NR profile of her just before she became the youngest woman elected to Congress at the time.

I mentioned to Rep. Stefanik how much I admired women standing up to run for office on our side because of the abuse to which they subject themselves. Unlike their Democratic counterparts, the abuse won’t be offset by features glamorizing them in the fashion magazines. We’re not holding our breath for Stefanik’s 2020 class to be featured by Glamour in a shot like this one, for example.

“You need a thick skin,” she said, “and it’s not just women.” She cited Senator Tim Scott. “They are vicious and vile” — you know who “they” are — “and they can get away with it because the media allow them to.”

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Stefanik also pointed out the GOP members among the incoming freshman whose families come from Communist countries: Victoria Spartz (born in Ukrainian SSR), Nicole Malliotakis (daughter of Cuban mother), Carlos Giménez (immigrant from Cuba), and Maria Elvira Salazar (daughter of Cuban parents). Malliotakis may start an anti-socialist “squad.” They all have a valuable perspective on the present discontents.

Stefanik answered my last question before I asked it: what’s on the horizon? “I’m already hearing from women who to want to run in 2022,” she said.

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[RightGeek]

Yes, this is from a blog, but it is an original interview by the well regarded blogger.

As for the ladies, they seem to have more grit than most of the Republican men in Congress:

[Fido969]

She is going to have to dress warmer.

Although she seems to have good padding for the recoil of that Mosin.