I am amending Resolution 30 regarding the Democratic Party Platform to add — pursuant to the @DNC Charter Article 2 Section 3 — a series of Platform Debates that encompass the key planks of our 2020 Platform.
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WHEREAS, our responsibility under the Charter Article 2 / Section 3 “the National Convention shall nominate a candidate for the office of President of the United States, nominate a candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States, adopt a platform” and,
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WHEREAS, Democrats can animate and engage our base with a robust series of platform discussions and debates on issues of concern to all Americans; and
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WHEREAS, the Democratic National Committee has traditionally written our platform in the spring after a majority of primary voters and caucus-goers have already voted and is drafted by representatives of candidates who have earned delegates ....
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but in order for the public to have more impact, we can begin sooner by holding DNC-sanctioned Presidential Platform Debates in the fall before the American people vote.
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THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the DNC will fulfill our obligation under DNC Charter Article 2 Section 3 to adopt a platform by providing a series of presidential platform debates that encompass the key planks of our 2020 Platform.
This is a domestic terrorist threat to the sitting Vice President of the United States. Take their violent rhetoric seriously. And as for their LIE: as VP on Joe Biden’s ticket, Kamala Harris got 14 MILLION primary votes. And then 4000+ DNC Convention delegate nominating votes.🧵
The violent call to “welcome” the “killer” Vice President in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, a designated Special Security Event is not a call to peaceful protest - and it endangers those who do, hilacking and weaponizing dissent.
And back to the cynical LIE …
about voting: Despite the lie voiced by this terrorist threatening MVP and by Donald Trump, Kamala Harris earned 14 million primary votes when we Democrats voted for Biden-Harris. But even if Harris hadn’t been on that ticket, our 4000+ DNC delegate votes nominated her for POTUS.
Thanks to whistleblowers and activists including the @WeSaidEnough community, CA banned #MeToo NDAs in 2018 and expanded protections in 2022.
That said, calling on Elon Musk (and others!) to open NDAs for those who want to speak, know that many don’t.🧵fastcompany.com/90706957/this-…
Our team at @WeSaidEnough has been a de facto #MeToo hotline since October 2017. We still hear about politicos from across the spectrum. Many used NDAs in the 2020 presidential campaign while attacking Bloomberg for his old ones. And when he opened his NDAs NO ONE TALKED! Why?
You know why. Many people with #MeToo NDAs have reasons for remaining silent. The most common: they moved on; they still work in the same financial or political circles; they didn’t want to be used as props with old wounds re-opened then left to heal alone. Who wants all THAT?
Heartbroken at the death of our beloved war hero and Senator Max Cleland. Despite sacrificing 3 limbs in Vietnam he was maligned by the right, and implored Democrats to defend our patriots as he led the creation of our “Fighting Dems” and @DNCVetsMilFams Council. #RIPMaxCleland
We met in 2003 when Senator Cleland asked me to interview a former staffer of his. Got to know him in the Kerry for President campaign when Cleland tried to stop the swiftboating of another Vietnam War Senator by another Republican who hadn’t seen combat. He insisted on …
learning from his 2002 Senate loss. Max Cleland paid a painful price: his PTSD from losing 3 limbs in the Vietnam War used against him in a vile Republican campaign smear comparing him to bin Laden and Saddam Hussein for defending workers’ rights at the Dept of Homeland Security.
I’ve worked on l/around vaccine politics for 20 years, since the U.S. House Oversight Committee debated a Victims Compensation Fund for children who got autism after (not from) measles vaccines. It failed. The same dynamics 1/
then exist now: a vaccine spectrum from self-described #antivaxxers, vax skeptics, vaccine hesitants, to vaccine proponents. It was not partisan. Now the covid vaccine spectrum is much more partisan than the childhood vaccine spectrum but not exclusively so. 2/
The science 20 years ago about childhood vaccines was not universally accepted — and the Wakefield Study falsely linking vaccines to autism affected people on many levels - such as fear of vaccines; ableism in treating and “curing” autism; outlier study used to oppose mandates 3/
Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney asks Sgt Gonell to respond to Trump calling the #January6th mob “loving” —
“If that was hugs and kisses, we should all go to his house and do the same thing to him.”
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He is clearly incensed by the lies and denials - and rightfully makes the point that NO ONE else sent the mob - they kept saying “Trump sent us”
Not Antifa. Not Black Lives Matter. Trump.
Of course the #January6th crowd sent by Trump was NOT “loving” - it was “medieval” “hand to hand combat” “beating us with the American flag they claim to represent” according to the sworn testimony of heroic police officers.
Who is the secret donor paying Kristi Noem to send South Dakota’s National Guard to Texas? What if there is a wildfire or other crisis at home in South Dakota during this partisan campaign stunt? Why is the military allowed to be a secret political mercenary force?
The South Dakota guard “politicizing the military with a secret donor” part reeks of Erik Prince. The border activity feels like the sham “build the wall” criminal case.
But if I am wrong and this is “very legal & very cool” — why not disclose the donor?
And does the secret Noem mercenary donor have any business before the South Dakota state government, the Texas state government, or the United States government?
Might this donation be part of seeking any material benefit from the state or the feds?