In mid-November, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D., Wash.) approached the House podium to defend her own peculiar legislative move: a resolution rebuking fellow Democrat Jesús “Chuy” García (D., Ill.).
The Illinois Democrat had timed his congressional retirement to best position his own chief of staff to succeed him in what she argued was a brazenly corrupt election maneuver that interfered with what would be an otherwise competitive race for his seat. “If you’re not going to run, you don’t get to choose your successor, no matter how noble the work you have done beforehand,” Gluesenkamp Perez said in defense of her resolution. “That’s what this is about, accountability.”
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