When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.
We're representing our districts. I make decisions on my district.
My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.
Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.
I don't go to Washington to represent the president; I go to represent the people of this district.
There's no assigned seats in the House. I spent the first couple months just getting to know my Congress. So I kind of wander around.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.