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In the photo added, Lee is not looking at the camera and appears possibly upset. I believe the photo should be removed. Cyounkins (talk) 01:39, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is a strange photo, probably a screen-grab from a video on YouTube. It is grainy and poorly cropped, and I agree that her facial expression does seem bizarre for an encyclopedia entry. I will replace it with a photo that depicts her campaigning, which is what the the bulk of the article is about. - Doppelbrau (talk) 01:40, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There was a lot of news coverage in WP:RS about how AIPAC and their affiliated lobbying organizations spent a lot of money opposing Summer Lee because she didn't agree with their position on Israel, but instead was more critical of the Israeli government. Shouldn't that be in the article? For example:
AIPAC and Democrats Clash Over Progressive Candidate Summer Lee
The pro-Israel lobby’s super PAC is set to spend over $1 million backing Lee’s GOP opponent, Mike Doyle, in a congressional race that is much tighter than expected in the Democratic stronghold of Pittsburgh
Ben Samuels
Haaretz
Nov 3, 2022
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Democratic Party are in a fierce spending war against each other, after both invested significant financial resources in a Pennsylvania House race days before the midterm elections.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (the House Democratic campaign arm) is shoring up support for progressive candidate Summer Lee with a six-figure advertising spend in her 12th Congressional District, according to a DCCC official....
AIPAC is meeting the DCCC investment with an additional $1,155,169 in mail and television ads from its United Democracy Project, bringing the super PAC’s total spend in the past several days to over $1.2 million.
Sen. Bernie Sanders slammed AIPAC, saying “the billionaires who fund AIPAC are spending $1 million against [Lee] because she stands with working people and against corporate greed. Democrats must unite and condemn this super PAC, and do everything possible to elect Summer.”...
UDP’s Dorton said Lee “would be a likely anti-Israel ‘squad’ member, wants to condition aid to Israel, questioned Israel’s right to defend itself during the Gaza rocket attacks and aligns herself with Israel’s most fervent critics in Congress.”
I think this issue should go into the article. Any objections?
The article currently says that she left the DSA prior to taking office which is sourced to this. There are othersourcesthat state or imply the opposite. This confirms that she's not currently a member..
Meanwhile, In These Times says that they've "drifted apart" but doesn't seem to have confirmation of when she left the organization:
But Pittsburgh DSA and the new state representatives have since drifted apart. Lee did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Innamorato confirmed that while she still pays DSA dues, she does not attend meetings. “There are amazing advocates, policy experts and labor organizers who happen to also be DSA members and are interested in electoral politics and legislative strategy,” she says. “Those are the people I keep in contact with as a legislator.”
The disconnect goes back to last spring. Following Lee and Innamorato’s victories, tensions brewing within the chapter over the primacy of electoral politics boiled up. Instead of turning, as Chicago has, to discussions of how to work with the candidates they had just elected, Pittsburgh DSA focused its attention inward. In June 2018, the chapter hosted a bylaws convention and voted to change its leadership structure. Members of a less electorally focused group took over and some who prized electoral work decamped. Daniel Moraff, 27, who both managed Lee’s campaign and was active in DSA, has let his membership lapse, saying that the chapter has become “internally focused.” (Full disclosure: Moraff has written for In These Times.)
I don't know a ton about Lee but based on my evaluation of sources, it seems clear to me that she left the DSA at some point after taking office as state representative (not before as the article states) and it's unclear whether it happened in 2021 or after her House election. I'm going to edit this line to say she is a former DSA member. Dcpoliticaljunkie (talk) 21:56, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
