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• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

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Katie Porter was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 2018 and used her signature whiteboard to take CEOs and corrupt government officials to task in Congressional hearings. I SWEAR: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan is a witty, down-to-earth exploration of what it's like to serve in Congress, particularly as a single mom. Katie reveals how her challenges as an Iowa farmgirl diverted her to the Ivy League and how she quickly mastered the art of making CEOs and cabinet members squirm when they bluff and bloviate instead of doing the job for America. She provides whiteboard lessons on where campaign donations go, how to fight the corporations that cheat you, and how to conduct her trademark robust oversight.

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Katie Porter's I SWEAR: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan is a witty, down-to-earth exploration of what it's like to serve in Congress, particularly as a single mom.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

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Not on the Ballot

The narrator was sworn in as a congresswoman for the 45th district of California in January 2019. After a two-year struggle, they made it to Congress. On an overcast December morning, they arrived at an empty French bistro where Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY’s List, was also present. Stephanie was a salesperson, championing the need to elect more women, and her optimism and encouragement in the face of those challenges were legendary. The narrator's staffer's plan to have her sign the declaration of candidacy in the presence of a notary in Washington, D.C.

would not suffice to qualify her for the California ballot. She was 2,670 miles away from the Orange County Registrar of Voters and needed to file in person in order to be a candidate for reelection in 2020. Stephanie reminded the narrator of their hard work and told them they couldn't give up now that they had finally won. The narrator was so tired that she couldn't see straight. Katie is a single mother of young children who has been in Congress for one year.

She is angry with Congress as an institution and herself for signing up to work in a system built for the benefit of old, rich, white men. At the end of the meal, Stephanie holds her back and asks her to promise to fly to California this afternoon. Katie agrees, but she still has an off-ramp to sign the candidate paperwork for reelection. The ballot fiasco was a reminder that being a single mom of young kids in Congress was not possible. On January 3, 2019, the speaker was sworn in on the House floor and voted to elect the Speaker of the House.

They celebrated their first day as a congressperson and their forty-fifth birthday with a party and cake. However, the majority leader had sudden aspirations to try to end the government shutdown, which was necessary for the policymaking aspirations that motivated their run for Congress. The most important details in this text are that the speaker was a working parent and had to rush to the Capitol to vote on a resolution to refer the resolution to a select committee with instructions to report it forthwith back. The session dragged on into the night and the speaker started to worry about their children, who were still awake and eating items from the hotel minibar. The speaker made it back to the hotel five hours and eight votes later, but by then the birthday party had long ago ended.

The speaker found the missing child in the lobby, hustled the kids into pajamas, and climbed into bed, wanting to sleep but realizing that they needed to worry. The most important details in this text are that the speaker is a single mother who has been in Congress for more than a decade and is struggling to plan for her children's schooling and work. She is frustrated by the lack of a schedule, as she cannot find childcare, tell her children not to worry, and plan to use every minute wisely. She has tried to talk to House leadership and her congressional colleagues, but they have not been able to run Congress around her unique needs. The speaker believes that the 13.6 million other single parents in America are not unusual.

The speaker discussed the inefficiencies of the House of Representatives' scheduling practices and how disruptions prevented them from maximizing their time. They were met with criticism for pushing for changes to make it possible for a single mother to serve in Congress. The speaker had studied the House calendar before she ran for office, but failed to realize that voting times and days were merely aspirational. As the ballot deadline loomed, the speaker boarded her flight back to Orange County, hoping for a delay on the tarmac. She wondered if a winter storm would disrupt her travel, and fantasized about being a professor again.

The narrator was struggling to decide between fighting to stay in Congress or taking care of their children. They decided to run for reelection and signed the paperwork at the Registrar of Voters. The next day, they went home to Iowa, where their stepmother offered them cinnamon rolls and a thermos of coffee to help them get out of the house on time. The staffer had to accept half a pan of cinnamon rolls and a thermos of coffee to get them out of the house on time. The narrator grew up in Lorimor, Iowa, which had a population of 7,536 in the last census.

Elizabeth Warren's campaign had opened a field office in the town, and the narrator recounted their childhood memories of land prices plummeting and farmers losing their land to the bank. The narrator then advocated for Elizabeth Warren, explaining her plans to protect and uplift hardworking Americans. They heard about the rigged system in Washington, where the rules were designed to keep power, not create opportunity. The narrator was a single mother of young children who served in Congress to make space for others to follow, creating a wider path that welcomed different kinds of people to be bigger voices in our democracy. They were determined to continue in Congress, even if it was a rough ride, as they wanted to create a wider path that welcomed different kinds of people to be bigger voices.

Positive Campaign

The most important details in this text are that the author has managed to land right in the middle of a social media war between fat-shamers and body positivity people, and that she has been successful at stimulating this policy debate. She had not realized her accomplishments as a fat person until after she won in November, when she saw that people like Stacey Abrams and Katie Porter were running fat-positive campaigns. This insight led her to appreciate her accomplishments as a fat person and burst into tears. The narrator has been chubby, heavy, and a bigger person, but has also been average and healthy. In running for Congress, they had overlooked the need to be an example of physique and were seen as a fat-positive role model.

However, the comments that followed described the harms of obesity and the psychological harms of fat-shaming. The narrator's brother calls this "funeral size" pan, which is suitable for an entire church basement gathering of the bereaved. The recipes reflect that culture and the corresponding body sizes. The most important details in this text are that the author's mother's signature dish is Country Club Potatoes, which involves an entire stick of butter, and that the author's mother made efforts to police her weight. Additionally, the author advocated for a flattering V-neck on political T-shirts, but as of this writing, she is not enough of a public figure to offer that variety of merch.