Democrat Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez Spoke Out Minutes After Charlie Kirk Shooting, But Still Silent A Week After ICE Execution

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has been completely silent after the state-sanctioned execution of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis sent shock waves through the nation. Even when Border Patrol agents shot two people in the next city over from her southwest Washington district, Gluesenkamp Perez couldn’t be bothered to express concern for due process, accountability, or any number of basic principles that even moderate Democrats are supposed to uphold. 

By comparison, Gluesenkamp Perez responded to the shooting of racist, rage-baiting podcaster Charlie Kirk before he was even pronounced dead. Even if Gluesenkamp Perez spoke out about the killing of Good one week after the fact, she would have responded to Kirk’s killing 720 times faster. But that’s generous — as of this morning, she hasn’t said a peep.

At around 12:23pm on Sept. 10, a gunman shot Kirk in the neck while he was debating college students at Utah Valley University's campus. Within 14 minutes, accounting for timezone differences, Gluesenkamp Perez told her Twitter followers she was “praying” for Kirk and his family and “that our country would turn towards the peacemakers and away from this isolating anger.”

Perez would go on to vote for a resolution honoring Kirk’s legacy of bigotry later that month. In a press release, Perez emphasized that Kirk “was a human being. He was a human being with a family who loved him.” The same could be said about Good, or the two people shot in Portland the next day, or Keith Porter who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve, or any of the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025 that didn’t get a congressional resolution. 

Realistically, everyone knows a statement won’t stick it to ICE. But if Gluesenkamp Perez can’t simply say she’s appalled by the recent wave of terror, she’s not a vote against ICE (or even for accountability) that her constituents can count on. 

If you’ve been following The Burner’s coverage on Gluesenkamp Perez, this shouldn’t be so shocking. For one, you can almost assume if you see a headline about a handful of Democrats joining with Republicans to support something heinously evil that Gluesenkamp Perez is among the traitors. 

She supported the Laken Riley Act, approved the censure of Congress’s only Palestinians member, voted to try 14 year-olds as adults in Washington D.C., she voted on a dorky, virtue signal resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism,” and she voted to let ICE strip search kids. And, most relevantly to her current nonchalance in the face of the secret police terrorizing civilians, Gluesenkamp Perez voted to express her “gratitude” to ICE in the heat of this summer’s anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. 

As I’ve written countless times, Gluesenkamp Perez is from a very purple district that she’s fought hard elections to represent. She was the clear lesser of two evils when she ran against a literal Nazi, but with a more moderate Republican trying to unseat her, it’s not clear Gluesenkamp Perez has done the political calculus right to drum up the excitement she will need to keep her job.