Marie Gluesenkamp Perez thinks it’s the Democratic Party that needs to change, not her

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez told voters in her 2022 campaign that she was “definitely not your typical candidate for Congress.”

After winning two consecutive U.S. House elections in Washington’s Republican-leaning 3rd Congressional District , she’s proven it.

Her willingness to cross up her party leaders and crossover to vote with the GOP majority was on display again this week in an episode that made some of her Democratic colleagues uneasy, others outright hostile.

Gluesenkamp Perez, of Skamania County in southwest Washington, authored a resolution reprimanding a retiring Democrat from Illinois for a political sleight-of-hand aimed at ensuring he is succeeded by his chief of staff.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, and pretty much everyone else in the Democratic caucus