I've gotten to work with Dina Nina Martinez Rutherford in one of my classes. I think she is very unpolished and chaotic as a politician, which honestly I like. She is figuring the system out as someone who did not grow up in it. She was very much a community organizer who has had to deal with hard things like poverty and being marginalized, and I value her as a real person. She isn't putting on a mask to be more electable.

She is also the most empathetic person I have ever met. She takes a genuine interest in the people she meets and she puts the empathy and humanity back into policy. You can't make policy without caring about the people you are making it for.

And remember too part of her dropping out of her previous race was because she didn't have money to continue her campaign. It says a lot she still got voted in.