This is the Tom Hartman program.

Congresswoman Pramilla Jia Paul will be here with us for the entire first hour taking your calls.

Progressive Town Hall with Congresswoman

Pramilla Gaiapol. She represents the seventh district of Washington State. She's

the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the senior whip of the Democratic

Caucus, a ranking member on the immigration

subcommittee. Jayapal, J-A-Y-A-P-A-L-O-H-A-L-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-E-P-A-L-O-G-O-G-O-G-G-E-Tahal is her official Twitter handle or X or whatever it is.

Representative Jayapol, welcome back to the program.

Hi Tom, it's great to be with you.

Always love being with you and glad we have an hour.

Thank you. Yes, me too. I'm very consider of you to share this hour with us.

I know our listeners love it. I just had a couple quick questions for you. The first is your sister is running for

Congress down here and in where I live I think she's running to replace Earl

Blumenthal or a blumenauer correct me if I'm wrong because I'm seeing

correct yeah I'm and he's my congressman. She's just getting savaged on television right now by this dark money group that nobody can figure out who it is.

It looks like it's a pack money.

What do you know about this? What's's going on I know a lot about it

you know my sister so shela jayapal was a Multnomah County Commissioner

for for several years she had to step down to be able to run for this seat.

She has been the front runner in terms of campaign fundraising.

She does not take any corporate pack money.

She's the only one of the three, you know, the main three candidates that doesn't take corporate pack money.

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