The news and images from Iowa after this week's storms are devastating. Communities like Cedar Rapids were so welcoming to us through the last year, and now we can all show support for those who are hurting amid this terrible damage. #Derecho2020
If you're within reach of Iowa and able to help, please consider signing up to volunteer this weekend. The @UnitedWayCI is doing terrific work to help get people the support they need even during this time of social distancing: …ayofeastcentraliowa.galaxydigital.com
Two other groups, @aid_ic and @ASJ_BLM, are focusing their movements on getting food and life-saving supplies directly to Iowans in need.
Extreme weather events are happening more and more often, and this is not just a coastal concern—it has come to impact Midwestern communities again and again. But I know the resilience and selflessness of Iowans, and I know how people will step up to support each other.
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Ron Mazzoli was a good friend across generational divides for the same reason he was a great legislator across partisan ones: profound decency, great curiosity, unfailing positivity, and an earnest sense of purpose.
As a fellow at Harvard’s IOP years after his time in Congress, Ron and his wife Helen befriended and mentored a new generation of students, showing us a completely different example than most of what we had seen on TV associated with being a “politician” growing up.
He so enjoyed his time with students that he came back the next year with Helen and enrolled as a “mid-career” Kennedy School masters student, joking at the 2004 graduation that we were now “classmates,” fifty years to the day after his college graduation at Notre Dame.
This Thanksgiving, as so many more families are once again able to safely come together after last year’s isolation, we are reminded of how fortunate we are to be able to gather with loved ones.
With the arrival of our new children, Penelope and Joseph, a new home, and fulfilling new work, we have much to give thanks for—and hope this year has brought many blessings for you, as well.
Today I'm proud to endorse fellow Hoosiers who are effective leaders in their communities and have dedicated themselves to public service. They will make Indiana a more inclusive and prosperous state.
.@DrWoodyMyers' intellect, integrity, and passion for helping Hoosiers are so needed in our politics—and his expertise and vast experience will serve us well in midst of a public health crisis. I'm proud to support his history-making candidacy to be our next Governor.
.@WeinzapfelforAG is highly respected among Indiana mayors. He is a lifelong public servant who has spent his career working for Hoosier families. As AG, he will strengthen our state and protect our health care from attempts to take it away.
Which experts? I don’t know, Senator, maybe the countless medical voices who could have saved you from making this obviously and humiliatingly false and dangerous statement? statesman.com/news/20200710/…
Perhaps voices like that of the top infectious disease expert in the country who has become a political lightning rod, ironically, because he doesn’t do politics? And who is being attacked by your White House allies at an exceptionally bad time? nbcnews.com/politics/white…
Our military is held together by trust. Those who serve trust one another to have their backs. We develop, and rely on, trust with allies and partners. And a level of basic trust binds the chain of command together, all the way to the top.
The very structure of the military relies on the expectation and trust that every Commander-in-Chief, party and politics and policy aside, will hold sacred the responsibility for our troops’ lives and will make every decision with troops’ and the country’s best interest at heart.
That trust has been implicit, until now. If you even have to stop and think about it, the entire concept of service erodes.