She Wrote Her First Law at a Dining Room Table | OR-04
Oregon's 4th Congressional District is massive — coastal towns, college cities, farmland, forests — and it's being left behind. Dr. Melissa Bird is a social worker, a descendant of the Shivwits Band of Southern Paiutes, and the kind of regular person Congress was designed for.
In this episode she breaks down how SNAP cuts quietly devastated school lunch programs, why a hospital on the Oregon coast is on the verge of closing, and what it actually takes to run for Congress without corporate money.
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