Courtesy of the Mazi Melesa Pilip website.
Posted on 12/15/2023 7:51:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Courtesy of the Mazi Melesa Pilip website.
Mazi Melesa Pilip is not your typical Long Island Republican. She is not, in fact, your typical anything.
Currently serving as a Nassau County legislator from Great Neck, Pilip has been nominated by local Republicans to run in the February 13 special election to fill the congressional seat vacated earlier this month when the House voted to oust serial fabulist George Santos (R-Nowheresville).
Pilip might not bring much legislative experience to what's expected to be a tight race, but she does bring the badassery.
Born into extreme poverty in Ethiopia in 1978 or '79, Pilip emigrated with her family to Israel at the age of 12. It isn't often appreciated but for all the talk of Israeli "racism," Jerusalem has rescued tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews from that country's violent troubles over the last 40 years. She and her family were part of Operation Solomon, a clandestine airlift in 1991 that brought more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in a remarkable 36 hours.
Operation Solomon would make a helluva movie, and maybe sometime I'll devote a full history column to it.
But back to Melesa Pilip who, when she came of age, served a stint with IDF's elite paratroopers. She told JTA back in January that as a college student, she headed up the Ethiopian Student Union for two years. "I was a voice of so many young kids who wanted equal opportunity and really my main focus was especially education, because I do believe through education, you can achieve a lot and you can integrate into the society."
While at the University of Haifa, she met an American-Ukrainian medical student named Adalbert Pilip. He's now a successful cardiologist, she's in politics, and together they have a huge family.
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Can she win?
If she won she would be a major media star.
I’ll take a pass on this one. I see all kinds of red flags here.
RE: Can she win?
As a Long Islander whose district she plans to represenr, I honestly think she won’t win, even though I’ll vote for her.
She’s running against a candidate with huge name recognition - Tom Suozzi, who was the Nassau county executive for 2 terms, and already a former congressman. She on the other hand, us relatively unknown except in her own town.
RE: I’ll take a pass on this one. I see all kinds of red flags here.
Name us a few...
I have never met an Ethiopian I didn’t like.
sounds like a GREAT candidate!
the GOP is showing a little inteligence?
What? No Americans want to run?
She sounds great.
No thanks.
Who the hell in the GOP thought it was a good idea will to put up this completely unvetted foreigner to run in that special election?
Of the 6 issues you listed, only issues 3 to 6 are of major concern to me.
Issue 5 can be looked into since she has a Local legislative record. THAT record is a huge tell.
Issue 6 is very similar to Trump’s and Reagan’s case, both were registered Democrats before becoming Republican.
“I see all kinds of red flags here.”
So please clue us in. I don’t see a one.
RE: Who the hell in the GOP thought it was a good idea will to put up this completely unvetted foreigner
She’s foreign born, but is now an American Citizen. As for skeletons in her closet, there’s still time to vet her.
Uh. No.
Like Haley, she’s clueless about America. She’d be “The Snake”.
RE: So please clue us in. I don’t see a one.
See post #12
Alberta, about half the time I don’t agree with you but I do on this one.
I hope I’m wrong but reportedly she was once a democrat.
If she’s an “HONEST” Republican, and there are “A FEW”, then I support her.
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