As the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania’s 11th District, I understand that inflation and the economy weigh heavily on voters’ minds. Inflation is complicated and
recover after undergoing surgery for his injuries. we still don t know for sure with the attackers motive was, but the san francisco police department said last night, quote, this is not a random act, this was intentional. let s bring in our democratic candidate, congressman pat ryan of new york. he s now in the race for new york city team district. texas state representative jasmine crockett who is running in texas s 30th congressional district. former congressman max rose who is trying to reclaim his seat right here in new york s 11th district, and oregon state representative andrea salinas, the democratic candidate in oregon six congressional district. it s good to have all four of you with us. this is an unprecedented moment to have all four of you on the show. we re very fortunate to have this wide ranging conversation. congressman, ryan, either to start with you. as a member of the democratic under speaker pelosi, i want to get your reaction to the dangerous devices weak and yo
me now is congresswoman shontel brown, representing ohio s 11th district, thank you for joining me today, congresswoman. let me go right at it. you are present a district with the highest concentration of black people in ohio. a new poll from the grillo and the kaiser family foundation finds that black voters overwhelmingly opus policies to defund the police. about half want to keep law enforcement funding as it is, and a third want to see an increase. you ve watched as republicans have pushed law and order as an issue in ohio and elsewhere. by painting democrats as soft on crime, how should members of your party be responding? well, first of all, thank you for having me, reverend al. and i think it s important that we recognize that democrats have been the ones recently that have passed recent legislations who helped with this very issue. i don t think anyone wants to see a community that is not
incumbents in mind, but rather, with communities of interest, which is now why we have this 11th district, home of automation ali, a hub of great commercial activity and innovation, all encompassed in oakland county. you re not driving down, or not cutting through three different districts. you ve got one, cohesive districts where we can have those policy conversations, and i can legislate from washington. in your perspective, the way things have been re-distracted in michigan now, this second version of, it is good? absolutely! it was transparent. and, look. there s always difficulties that come when you draw lines. you don t have all of oakland county in one district. why? because it s 1.2 million people. these districts are just shy of 100,000. so, you ve got the little pain when a line comes down, but we ve got pontiac to hazel park, over to commerce over here to detroit, michigan, and i m fired up about! it you mentioned pontiac. remind me of cars. we are in car country, in
wayne and oakland counties, but we re gonna talk about that, because due to redistricting, i ll get that word right, it s been redrawn and will be wholly encompassed in oakland county, come january. representative stevens is the first woman to represent the 11th district. she s up to her third term in congress this november. welcome. great to see you. great to have you back. you are sort of a mainstay of our visits to michigan. so, we appreciate. that first of all, i want to talk to you about this redistricting thing. i had a conversation with a missing gander of day. some really liked what had happened. they felt the redistricting hero as necessary as a result of gerrymandering that had occurred in the past. others, particularly the republicans on my panel thought, they didn t like it. can you just tell my viewers who may not be familiar with it at all, what happened to michigan? we finally had a voter driven redistricting process. we called it, voters not politicians. it was a