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The @nti-Trump: Rep. Ted Lieu hits the president where he lives

The following article by Gabby Kaufman was posted on the Yahoo News website August 9, 2017:

Ted Lieu at the “From Russia With Trump” panel during Politicon at Pasadena Convention Center on July 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo: Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for Politicon)

There’s no evidence President Trump, in his Twitter persona of @realDonaldTrump, has been paying any attention to Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., or even to @tedlieu. He hasn’t replied to any of the second-term congressman’s provocative tweets, hasn’t bothered to insult or attack him and hasn’t unleashed on him the army of trollbots supposedly working in the service of the Trump campaign.

Others are paying attention — Lieu’s 337,000 followers, at least, representing an increase of hundreds of thousands in the months since he began his campaign of answering the deluge of bombast and untruths from the president’s Twitter account with his own stern correctives.

It’s a thankless job — unless you are, say, a certain 48-year-old minority-party backbencher from Torrance who has been rewarded with newfound stature in his party and increased face time on cable news.

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Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star

Rep. Lieu will be joining us at our upcoming (September 10, 2017) Jackie Stevenson Dinner. Here’s a recent article talking about him we thought you’d be interested in.

The following article by Karen Heller was posted on the Washington Post website March 30, 2017:

The makeshift sign on Lieu’s office door. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

LOS ANGELES — In the packed auditorium at the Creative Artists Agency, a vortex of entertainment industry power and current progressive political woe, comedian Kathy Griffin — tiny, insistently red-tressed — erupts in full-throttle rasp at the man in the boxy gray suit as he finishes up onstage.

“I saw you on the Joy Reid show on MSNBC,” Griffin says, coming up from the audience to address Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat speaking at the CAA Foundation’s Take Action Day. “You’re giving us hope!”

A trio of sleek female agents surrounds Lieu, as if he’s some TV heartthrob like actor Joshua Jackson, who is on the same environmental panel yet attracting far less attention.

“You’re a rock star,” they gasp. “We love your tweets.”

With Lieu, it’s all about the tweets. Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Lieu has become a tweeting demon, famous as the man, as the Los Angeles Times put it, “trolling the Tweeter in Chief.” Continue reading “Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star”