Last month, Rep. Al Green and fellow Rep. Christian Menefee faced off in a highly contested runoff to fill Texas’s 18th Congressional District seat. When Texas Republicans gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps last summer, Green saw the Houston-area district he served for two decades eliminated, and he shifted to the 18th, where Menefee had just been elected after the death of Rep. Sylvester Turner.
Nearly 40 years Green’s junior, Menefee ran on a platform not unlike his opponent’s, promising to advocate for racial and gender equality, affordability, and reforming the U.S. immigration system. But his stance on one issue diverged significantly from Green’s: cryptocurrency.
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