New Friday List #1
Howard Berman: Sent an email both to Senator
Warren and the DNC suggesting strategies for toppling Trump.
Christopher
Krull: his week I emailed my Senator,
Ben Sasse, regarding the
administration's new asylum rule. I also called my congressman, Don Bacon, to ask why he did not vote in the affirmative on the resolution regarding Trump's racist tweets.
administration's new asylum rule. I also called my congressman, Don Bacon, to ask why he did not vote in the affirmative on the resolution regarding Trump's racist tweets.
Tom Cathcart: I haven't done a lot lately, other than
smallish donations to Buttigieg and Amy McGrath in her race against the despicable
McConnell. Also, I've given a bit of money to Planned Parenthood and groups
supporting the immigrant children in detention. This week I wrote a grant
application for the local immigrant defense network.
David Palmeter: I currently make three small monthly
contributions through Act Blue: (1) to the DLCC, which supports candidates for
state legislatures; (2) to Elizabeth Guzman, a first term member of the
Virginia House of Delegates; (3) to Rep. Jared Golden, Maine 2nd District. Guzman was one of three candidates in 2017
that Bernie recommended via Our Revolution. I’ve been impressed with her
organizational effort and have given her campaign $10 per month since 2017. She
was the first Latina to serve in the Virginia House and is up for reelection
this November. Golden is the young man
who, in 2018, flipped a Republican House seat in Maine in a district Trump
carried. This was the election in which Maine tried ranked voting. Golden came
in second on the first round, with slightly more than 48% of the vote; the
Republican also was at 48% but with a small fractional advantage. Golden won
when the Green Party second choices were distributed. He is likely to face a
strong Republican challenge in 2020.
Charles Perkins: I have, installed a yard sign, bought three
bumper stickers for Elizabeth Warren (one on my computer, two on my car), and I
have set up an automatic donation of $25 dollars to her campaign.
David: Here are my recent activities:
- Twice I called my member of Congress,
Pramila Jayapal. First I called her Seattle office, where a staff member
advised me to call her DC office if I wanted to discuss detailed policy
concerns. The next day I called her DC office.
- I voted. We're having local off-year
elections (county council, mayor, school board), and as we have all
vote-by-mail here (free postage!), I popped my ballot in the mail box a
couple weeks before the deadline.
- I contacted an old activist friend and
made a date to discuss his current work. This may not sound like much, but
I have become increasingly lethargic since the mid-terms and I'm looking
for some inspiration from an old political comrade.
Guest: Anonymous:
I live in the UK but I've been campaigning against Boris Johnson, who is
pretty much the same person as Trump
Robert Paul Wolff: I called both of my senators [Burr and
Tillis Ugh] to urge them to support legislation to protect our elections [good
luck.] I made my recurring $6 donation
to Bernie, and made a one time $500 donation to Warren. I
signed up with the North Chatham Democratic Party to work in the 2020
elections. And I restarted the Friday
Lists.
4 comments:
As my friend Bob Higgins (a fellow UMASS polisci guy) noted, Boris could be Moe Howard's son. Yuck, Yuck, Yuck! [Moe Howard is the Moe of Moe, Larry and Curly of the Tree Stooges]
Ha! On a similar comic note, it's too bad Graham Chapman (of Monty Python fame) is deceased. He kind of looks the part, and could probably muster a good parody of Boris.
I commented on "Reminder", which I will copy here: I've donated 8 times to Bernie's campaign since 2/22/19 (including recurring monthly donations starting in May - i.e 3/8).
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