Tammy Duckworth is my senator.
I just wish her views on the Israel/Palestine situation were better.
Frankly, I wish mine were better. I had no idea this was happening, so thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Perfectly represented - never. Partially yes - I can always find someone who’s opinions are not completely abhorrent, and some of it agrees with mine. But it’s never all in one candidate.
So I resort to alternate voting. If any of the acceptable candidates is currently in opposition I vote for them, choosing whichever party is not currently in government but has a reasonable chance to enter government in the next cycle.
Closest was @[email protected] when he fought (and still ist) against Chatcontrol.
Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, proud lesbian and represented Wisconsin well
Tim Walz before he ran for vp and Bernie Sanders before I found out he was defending Israel’s right to “defend” themselves. AOC is alright too I guess
Danica in Virginia.
Kevin Rudd.
Then the great backstab/overthrow calamity began.
Oh yeah, talking about Australia here.
Nationally, I kind of feel like the guys in right now have a similar-ish outlook. Locally, never, because this is a safe riding for a party I’ve never voted for.
Never.
Vermin Supreme comes close to treating the corporate state with the respect it deserves, but there’s no leadership under all that absurdity.
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019 UK election. He lost due to several factors but especially sabotage from within his own party and a corrupt media. Apparently it’s all well documented in this 3 part series though I’ve never had the heart to watch it.
There is this one guy that represented me well for the last 6 years. While he was running the party things were good. From then on things went a bit downhill. He is still there and doing a good job though.
Went to a demonstration in support of Ukraine and our president was there as a speaker. That was nice.
Can’t say that I ever have. But with how many people are covered, even locally, it may be a fools errand to hope for a person like that.
Generally speaking, local has been pretty decent even if I don’t always get what I’d like. Let’s just say Cop City kinda tainted everyone.
I live in a fairly small, poor, remote suburb of my city’s district. The city is divided into districts, with a representative for each district, and the power of the city government is largely in the hands of these representatives. My neighborhood is part of a district that, due to geography, is mostly very separated from us (think like a long thin line sticking way out of the main body of the district with my neighborhood on the end of it).
Certain city boards were trying to make up revenue by taxing our neighborhood specifically in various ways. We were obviously furious about it. We have regularly scheduled community town halls, like all the districts, and our rep shows up at them.
The town hall after the taxation proposal was released was scheduled to run from 3pm to 6pm. It lasted until well after midnight.
My district rep stayed there the whole time, obviously exhausted but still asking questions and opinions of the speakers and making promises. He promised to do something about it. And sure enough, within a month, the city boards backtracked on the taxation scheme.
We’re a poor neighborhood, and we’re not super numerous either. He didn’t have to help us, he could have sacrificed us to subsidize the main body of the district. But he didn’t, he stayed all night and then went and fought for us in the city government. He later went on to higher offices at the state and federal level.
Also, I once accidentally touched the Mayor’s boob at a party rally, so that could count I guess.
I’ve never felt fully represented.
