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Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)
4. Eric Swalwell is my favorite member of congress.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 07:20 AM
Friday

I saw a video of him once on the house floor.

He was standing there with some of his colleagues and he hears a commotion
in the background. He looks over and a black Dem member of Congress
was literally being roughed up and pushed around by a white GOPer. Other GOPers
were joining the fray.

Without a second's hesitation, Swalwell runs over and breaks it all up.
He is a big guy and made it clear he would brook no nonsense. This showed
me his true character. And leadership.

Also during J6 when congress was under attack he stayed with another older member
of congress who was recovering from cancer treatment who had to stay flat on her back.
She was having an anxiety attack and felt faint.

A friend of Eric's, a GOPer was standing next to her with no mask. Eric asked him
to please put on his mask so as not to pass covid on the the cancer patient.
The GOP friend refuses. Eric is genuinely perplexed why a man would refuse to a simple request from a friend, and also endanger an elderly colleague.

Eric Swalwell is such a good decent man that the evil and cruelty of others
does not compute and is glaring to him.

He doesn't accept it. And neither should we.

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