In case you missed it, Bloomberg Government is out with a new profile highlighting swing-district leaders like Rep. Andrea Salinas who is focused on advocating for her district and fighting for common-sense solutions in Washington. Read more below:
The parties are also keeping an eye on re-election races of two first-term Democrats in Oregon: Reps. Andrea Salinas and Val Hoyle.
Salinas represents the state’s newest congressional district, which runs through the Willamette Valley toward the state capital of Salem.
Salinas, who represents a district that Biden would have won by 13 points, rarely bucks her party. When she does, it’s often on crime policy.
She voted with Republicans to retain the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ability to crack down on fentanyl distribution (H.R. 467), make assault of law enforcement worthy of deportation (H.R. 2494), and reject a D.C. law overhauling the city’s criminal code (Public Law 118-1).
“We have to listen to rural and suburban and urban to get anything done,” Salinas said in an interview in the Portland suburb of Sherwood during National Night Out, an annual party convening police officers and the rest of the community. Salinas, the daughter of a San Francisco police officer, shortly after arriving at the party put on a sticker in the shape of a police shield designating her “Jr. Police.”
Salinas said members of both parties need to push back on their most ideologically extreme elements but anticipated that on the airwaves, “the rhetoric is going to be extreme all the time,” she said.
