";s:4:"text";s:3144:""Detroit accounts for 60 percent of the 13th Congressional District and Brenda Jones knows Detroit," the newspaper's Jones has also received endorsements from prominent Black church leaders, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, the president of the Detroit branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).While the role of the candidates' ethnic identities cannot be dismissed from the campaign, critics say it is not necessarily right to assume that all African-American voters will back Jones because she is Black. "These comments are racist in nature," Ayoub told MEE. Standing in her traditional Palestinian dress, a tatreez-patterned thobe, with a hand on the Quran and another pointing towards the sky, Rashida Tlaib was sworn into Congress less than two years ago.History was made. Her leadership has secured critical funding to stop water shutoffs and replace lead pipes," Pelosi said in a statement. You are telling them don’t count since I am on the ballot, don’t count my vote? The Concerned … Tlaib, once seen as a progressive outsider, now has the power of incumbency, which comes with institutional support - or at least institutional reluctance to back her challenger.
She introduced one bill.”The audio podcast of the interview is available at www.TheArabStreet.org.Tlaib has repeatedly declined requests to be interviewed both for radio and for newspaper online and print interviews.Related story: Rashida Tlaib rejects the Two-State Solution, reversing her campaign pledge. Jones won the and she tried to preventThis time, Jones is facing Tlaib one-on-one with the backing all of the other candidates who ran in the prior congressional battles, and she has deflected several petitions and lawsuits filed to forcibly remove Jones’ name from the ballot to ensure Tlaib’s re-election.“Rashida Tlaib and her supporters tried to go against me from being on the ballot.
Are you truly a public servant of the people? Hope for our children. The second election was held to fill Conyer’s vacant seat and represent the 13th district in the new two-year term.Jones defeated Tlaib in the special election by a vote of 32,727 to Tlaib who had 31,084 with only four candidates in the race. "Trump has berated Tlaib several times, calling her a "Tlaib has said she will do everything to increase voter turnout in Michigan for the presidential elections in November to help Joe Biden beat Trump.But the congresswoman, who endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries, has not formally endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee - a fact that has been used by her critics to boost Jones.In the article itself, Tlaib makes it clear that she will campaign for Biden against Trump.
She has also introduced several bills and amendments to bring resources to the district and resolve its most pressing issues, including efforts to avert "I have known Rashida for decades, and I don't know any political servant that I respect more in terms of work ethic and effectiveness," said Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI).