Profiling a Candidate

Yvette Clarke may have played up the female angle in last year’s congressional election, but that was nothing compared to

Yvette Clarke may have played up the female angle in last year’s congressional election, but that was nothing compared to this.

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From a piece on Clarke in The Hill:

Clarke isn’t your typical half-lost, conservatively dressed freshman. More runway than House floor, upon arriving at lunch she unwraps a thick, multicolored scarf and removes a long, pretty beige overcoat to reveal an animal-print Gianni Versace suit — a mid-thigh-length skirt accompanied by a short blazer. A beige fur cap covers a sleek new hairdo. “Now that my hair’s so short I can feel the breeze,” she says, explaining that she recently removed her hair weave. She says people in Congress have been doing double-takes at her fur cap. She doesn’t care. She stands tall in black wedged heels.

Now I ask you, if the election had turned out differently, would anyone be writing this way about Chris Owens or David Yassky?

— Azi Paybarah

Profiling a Candidate