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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more It looks like she Stole $6 Million. He Grew Up Homeless. He's Winning. BREAKING: The House Ethics Committee just found Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on more than two dozen violations. Expulsion is on the table. And the 26-year-old teacher is beating her. Blue On the Ballot Mar 28 Here’s what just happened. A special panel of the House Ethics Committee found Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on more than two dozen ethics violations. The full committee will decide sanctions after the recess. Expulsion is a real possibility. This comes on top of her federal indictment for misappropriating millions in healthcare funds to bankroll her 2022 congressional campaign. The state of Florida accidentally overpaid her company, Trinity Health Care Services, nearly $6 million during COVID. She took that money and used it to buy a seat in Congress. 70% of voters in her own district say she should resign She won’t. So someone has to beat her. His name is Elijah Manley. He’s 26 years old. He’s a substitute history teacher. And he’s already leading the primary. He Grew Up in the District She’s Robbing Elijah Manley was born in Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk neighborhood, one of the poorest communities in FL-20. 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 if he could cut their grass or wash their cars. He built a little landscaping business, 15 or 20 clients a week, so he could buy school supplies and bus passes to get 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 been showing up to city council meetings and school board hearings since he was a teenager. He’s never won an election. But he’s never stopped running toward one. Now he’s 26. He teaches history to kids in the same district where he grew up homeless. And he’s running for Congress against a woman who stole millions from the healthcare system during a pandemic and used it to buy the seat. The Numbers Manley has raised over $275,000 from more than 11,000 donors across all 50 states. Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign is nearly broke. In the most recent poll, Manley leads the primary. 38% to Cherfilus-McCormick’s 35% in a three-way race. Head to head, it’s 40-38 Manley. He’s the only candidate in the field with positive favorability. Hers is negative 30. FL-20 is rated D+22. Whoever wins the August primary wins the seat. This isn’t a general election fight. It’s a primary, and the primary is everything. If Manley wins, he’d be the youngest member of Congress. Click to help him win Why This Matters for the Whole Party Democrats can’t credibly run against Republican corruption while letting their own members steal from healthcare programs during a pandemic. It doesn’t work. Voters see through it. Replacing Cherfilus-McCormick with Elijah Manley isn’t just the right thing to do for FL-20. It’s the right thing to do for the Democratic brand nationwide. Every seat held by a corrupt incumbent is a talking point for the other side. Every seat won by a grassroots candidate who grew up homeless and built something from nothing is proof that the party means what it says. Manley isn’t running to climb a ladder. He’s running because he lived at the bottom of the district his congresswoman was supposed to be fighting for, and she was too busy stealing to notice. ✦ She Took Millions. He Mowed Lawns. Pick a Side. → Donate to Elijah Manley: click HERE See you tomorrow! -Team Blue on the Ballot