She ran in a blue district, won of course, then turned red. If I were conspiracy minded I could think things about that. As it is, she should have resigned the seat as the voters voted someone else in...a Democrat.John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:12 pm The Dem-turned-MAGA state representative in NC who gave the MAGA mutts here a veto-proof majority:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/politics ... index.html
Turned from reasonable to shitgibbon in under 6 months.
But she has good reasons. She's thin-skinned like a Republican. Here's the whinefest:
Did it even happen? And really? You couldn't brush off criticism?At the news conference Wednesday, Cotham said that “the turning point for me was when I was criticized for using the American flag and the praying hands emoji on all my social media platforms and even on the back of different vehicles that I have.”
“I really could not believe that that was the conversations that was happening at that time, and I was deeply offended,” she said, adding that “to say that that is wrong and not to be able to show off a flag because the others hijack it for something else, why are we at this place in politics?”