Posted on 07/14/2018 5:46:31 PM PDT by TBP
If all you knew about American politics came from The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, or MSNBC, you'd think that a "Blue wave" is about to swamp the country, with hip, millennial geniuses like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surfing the crest of the wave. In fact, you would already think Ocasio-Cortez is the greatest hope for America since Barack Obama.
America is a very large country, and reality is usually more complex than the media lets on. But, since the media already has their narrative and superstar Ocasio-Cortez set for this November, there's no room for another young, minority, female, child of immigrants, political outsider, from the ultimate blue-wave state of California, named Elizabeth Heng. Well, there probably would be room for a story like that, except that she's a conservative.
Thirty-two-year-old Elizabeth Heng is running for Congress against Democrat Jim Costa, in California's 16th district. It's been 40 years since a Republican won in that district.
In the early 1980s, Heng's parents fled the violence in Cambodia and immigrated to the U.S. In 2008, after graduating from Stanford where she was student-body president, Heng opened several cell-phone stores with her brothers in the central San Joaquin Valley. Running her own business and managing 75 employees opened her eyes to a not-so-dirty secret about capitalism trying to survive the virus of progressivism. She says, "I saw firsthand how government regulations impacted businesses negatively. I constantly felt that from Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, they were saying that I was everything wrong with our country, when all I was doing was creating jobs."
That's when she decided to venture to Washington, D.C., where she worked for six years learning the ins and outs of legislation and campaigning. She ended up working as a director for President Trump's inauguration ceremony, a job she managed while also finishing her MBA at Yale.
One of the biggest lessons she learned working in Washington became the platform she is now running for office on: fiscal responsibility. She says, "In a family or a business, we don't suddenly act surprised when a budget comes up for the year. We get it done."
What a concept.
Still, fiscal responsibility isn't quite as sexy-sounding as free college for everyone. So, don't expect Elizabeth Heng to replace Ocasio-Cortez as the media darling anytime soon.
Glen Beck is still alive?
Wow, what an insightful comment!
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She’s from my alma mater, Stanford. She should win..
Gee, Media, who’s the MORE IMPRESSIVE of the two?
Seriously.
So did you get your jet sold yet or not?
Yes but the problem is that one is not a communist and one is.
The media s communist. So only one exists.
Elizabeth Heng’s parents managed to escape from winding up on a bone pile, unlike several million of their fellow Cambodians, and she has built a successful life for herself.
Why would anyone think today’s media would be interested in that?
Elizabeth Heng is Asian. Democrats see Asians as a threat. In California, there are many universities that categorize them as Whites and put them on the bottom of the list for admission. The biggest enemy Asians have in the United States is the LGBT group. So any attacks that one against her, that’s where they originate
Fresno for sure could get her elected.
That is great! We need to pray for more like her!
Because the Khmer Rouge were socialists, globalists, and greens.
Surely we should be hearing how evil it was for her parents to defy Pol Pot. That was, afterall, the chorus the media sang at the beginning of his reign of death.
Don’t they want to talk about that now?
Because the media stacks people based on race into a totem poles whereby races at the top of the totem pole need to be knocked down and races on the bottom, raised up. The outcome will be a horizontal totem pole with everyone being equal.
They’re going to make 2 equal with 8 no matter what dammitall.
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The biggest enemy Asians have in the United States is the LGBT group. So any attacks that one against her, that’s where they originate
Can you explain that? I had not seen that before.
Its what is happening in the Bay area and the LA area. Asians are some of the most intelligent people in the US today, engineering, math, chemistry, science, etc. Wo the universities are working to lower the amount of Asians in colleges and raise the amount of LBGT. Blacks and Latinos.
Okay gotcha. Thanks.
Osorio-Cortez will become the Congresscritter from her district. Heng will probably lose.
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