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Two Down. Two to Go.
Yesterday, two congressmen quit rather than face expulsion. Today, Congress comes for the other two.
Something is happening in Washington that has never happened before.
Yesterday, Eric Swalwell resigned. Tony Gonzales announced his retirement. Both faced near-certain expulsion votes over sexual misconduct. Two stinkers down, two to go (albeit for different reasons). Cory Mills, Republican, FL-7. And Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Democrat, FL-20.
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Mills is under Ethics Committee investigation for six categories of misconduct: domestic violence, threatened revenge porn, campaign finance violations, profiting from federal defense contracts while in Congress, misusing congressional resources, and exaggerating his military record. Two women have accused him of violence or threats. A Florida judge issued a restraining order. His own Republican colleagues, Mace, Greene, and Luna, have all said publicly he needs to go.
Cherfilus-McCormick was found guilty last month on more than two dozen ethics violations. She’s federally indicted for stealing nearly $6 million in COVID healthcare overpayments and funneling the money into her 2022 congressional campaign. Seventy percent of voters in her own district say she should resign. The Ethics Committee meets April 21 to recommend sanctions. Expulsion is on the table.
Both of them are still in Congress right now. Both of them could be gone within weeks. And in both of their districts, someone better is already running.
FL-7: Marialana Kinter
Marialana Kinter grew up as one of four kids raised by a single mom. Food stamps. Medicaid. Free school lunches. The foster care system. Nobody gave her a thing.
At 17, she enlisted in the Navy and entered the nuclear power pipeline, one of the most brutal training programs in the military. She graduated. She deployed to the USS Nimitz. She supervised nuclear reactors on one of the most powerful warships ever built. She served eight years.
After the Navy, she ran over 300 STEM education events in New York City schools and libraries, teaching kids from backgrounds like hers that a future in science was possible. Then she took a federal job and kept serving.
Then DOGE fired her. Not for cause. Not for performance. Because a billionaire’s cost-cutting experiment decided she was expendable.
This year, she went to the ER with the flu. The bill was $41,000. Eight years in the Navy and she can’t afford to get sick.
Her opponent has a restraining order, a domestic violence investigation, a disputed Bronze Star, 94 federal contracts worth nearly $1 million that he allegedly awarded himself while sitting on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and he called a constituent “a bumbling moron” on camera.
Marialana Kinter ran nuclear reactors. Cory Mills can’t keep a restraining order off his record.
FL-20: Elijah Manley
Elijah Manley grew up in Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk neighborhood, one of the poorest communities in Broward County. He was raised by a single mother. They were chronically homeless. He went to school hungry. He lived without electricity. Some nights, he didn’t know where his family would sleep.
As a kid, he knocked on neighbors’ doors and asked to cut their grass and wash their cars so he could buy school supplies and bus passes to the library. At 9, he watched Barack Obama get elected and decided he wanted to serve. At 14, he joined the local Black Lives Matter Alliance. At 19, he ran for the Broward County School Board and got 43,000 votes. At 21, he ran for the Florida House.
He’s 26 now. He teaches history to kids in the same district where he grew up homeless. He’s raised over $275,000 from more than 11,000 donors in all 50 states. In the most recent poll, he leads the primary. The only candidate in the field with positive favorability.
His opponent stole $6 million from a COVID healthcare program and used it to buy a seat in Congress. She’s been found guilty on over two dozen ethics violations. She’s been federally indicted. And she still won’t resign.
Elijah Manley mowed lawns for bus fare. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick stole millions from sick people.
Why This Matters Right Now
The House is 217-214. Every seat matters. Every expulsion reshuffles the math. And in both of these districts, the question isn’t whether the incumbent leaves. It’s who replaces them.
FL-7 is a general election fight. Kinter needs to build a war chest now so she’s ready the moment Mills is gone, expelled, or weakened enough to lose in November. Every dollar she raises before that happens is a dollar that tells the DCCC this seat is in play.
FL-20 is a primary fight. D+22. Whoever wins the August 18 primary wins the seat. Manley is already leading, but primaries are won by turnout, and turnout is won by money. He needs grassroots donors to push him over the line against a machine candidate who will spend every last stolen dollar to hold on.
Two seats. Two disasters. Two candidates who came from nothing and built everything the hard way.
✦ Two Down. Two to Go. Fund the Replacements.
Click here to donate to Elijah.
Click here to donate to Kinter.
See you tomorrow!
-Team Blue on the Ballot
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