El-Sayed: They think that they’re going to be able to label me before I can label Mike Rogers. Now this is a guy who spent his time in Congress voting to raise prescription drug prices 60 times. Then he architected the legislation that created the opioid epidemic. Then he took a 14 million dollar payout as a pharma lobbyist and moved to Florida.
I’m going to eat that man’s lunch. I’m going to define him in ways that his golf buddies won’t forget. So I’m looking forward to the matchup. I’m going to beat him by seven and it’s going to be a good time.
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Mike Rogers voted to raise prescription drug prices 60 times.
Architected the legislation that kicked off the opioid epidemic.
Took a $14 million payout as a pharma lobbyist.
Lives in Florida.
We're going to beat him in November.
‘The Good Guys’ protesting for the RIGHT TO RÀPE Palestinian detainees.
lDF and civilians demanding permission to sexually assault prisoners.
Let that sink in.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
Chuck Schumer doesn’t pick Michigan’s nominee. We do.
I flipped a seat no one thought we could win, helped flip the State Senate, and delivered for our rights, our families, our kids, and our state.
Let’s show Washington what it looks like to fight like Michigan and win.
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