1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should not lead the majority we just elected. The voters delivered a blue wave, and the message in it was plain. We want accountability for this administration and relief from prices that keep climbing. Neither man has shown the will to fight for either. Caution has not slowed this administration. It has emboldened it. You know your offices are being flooded with calls about this. That is the outrage of the constituents you serve. We want leadership that understands our will and follows it to make change. Representative-elect Don Leonard of Ohio says senior House Democrats told him they would make his life a living hell for two years and end his career in 2028 unless he backed Jeffries without conditions. His conditions were a vote to overturn Citizens United and enforcement of the Leahy Law. That is a new member doing his job. Condemn the threats publicly, and demand to know which senior members made them. A leadership that threatens its own newest members will not listen to the voters who put them there. Give us leaders who will. Vote no on Schumer and Jeffries, and demand an open election for both posts.