Pennsylvania state Rep. Summer Lee, a Progressive Democrat, is running to succeed retiring Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Penn., who has served in Congress since 1995.
Lee has openly supported many socialist policies — including the redistribution of wealth — and controversial Progressive policies like repealing prisons.
“Instead of ‘thanking’ Black women, Black voters, and especially, Black organizers... give us the investments we need and deserve, redistribute wealth, ends police violence, abolish the carceral state, commit to building Black directed political power... and reparations,” Lee tweeted in November 2020.
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Similar to her rhetoric, Lee’s career as a state representative draws comparisons between her and Ocasio-Cortez: both women defeated long-established members of their respective governing bodies in 2018 and ran on similar Progressive platforms.
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Ocasio-Cortez defeated former Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., whom many suggested would grow to Speaker of the House before his surprise primary upset, to secure her seat in Congress. Lee further beat a long-standing incumbent, primarying Democrat former Pennsylvania state Rep. Paul Costa and ending his two-decade career in the state legislature.
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Lee’s platform runs in the same circle as the “Squad” queen herself, pushing “Medicare for All,” tacking “justice” onto many of herp Progressive policies to capitalize on the buzzword, and making many wild allegations varying from the state of American Democracy to immigration policies.
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“Throughout our nation’s history, we have never delivered on the promises of democracy,” Lee argues in the “Democracy and Voting Rights” section of her website. “The legacies of slavery and Jim Crow have carried on through voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and voter suppression making the ballot box inaccessible, especially for poor, Black and Brown people across the country.”
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Lee argued that the U.S. “government’s rules have also failed to fulfill the promise of democracy” and called for an “end outdated and arbitrary laws” as well as to give “every person in our country with the right to vote - from previously incarcerated people to immigrants, everyone deserves a voice in our democracy.”
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The Pennsylvania Progressive is running on packing the Supreme Court “so that Right-wing extremists cannot strip away our fundamental rights” and to “end lifetime appointments to the highest court in the land.”
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Lee also calls for an end to the filibuster, which she claims is “a tool championed by segregationist Senators to oppose civil rights legislation that continues to stand in the way of progress today.”
"No human being is illegal. Our immigration system is a broken web of xenophobic policies that seek to punish brown and Black people instead of building pathways to citizenship,” Lee argues on her “Immigration” tab.