April 2025 – Punk Of The Month JASMINE CROCKETT

PUNK OF THE MONTH

Article By: Ginger Coyote

This Month’s PUNK OF THE MONTH Award goes to the incredible fireball Congresswoman from Dallas, Texas.

She is an outspoken advocate for equality and democracy. She has to fight twice as hard to get where she is because she is a black woman. She is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Jasmine was born in St. Louis, Mo. While going to College at Rhodes, she was advised by a professor that she had too much personality to settle for her plan to become a certified public accountant. The school’s handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer when she got racist hate mail and her Black friends’ cars were keyed She explained, “My school didn’t know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant ‘shero’. … While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time.” She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. She is indeed a powerhouse!  In a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Joe Biden, Crockett accused fellow congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans of hypocrisy. She claimed that those launching the impeachment inquiry and those who brought forth charges against Biden were ignoring documented evidence of President Donald Trump’s criminal offenses. In an Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2024, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to a barb by Crockett: “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.” Committee chairman James Comer ruled that this remark did not violate House protocol. To clarify the limits on personal comments, Crockett asked “If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities. 

PUNK GLOBE takes great pride in bestowing MS. JASMINE CROCKETT with  this issue’s PUNK OF THE MONTH