I ran against @RepThompson twice. He is an anti-socialist and long time opponent of Medicare For All, but he was pressured to co-sponsor it by an activist campaign. As a progressive challenger, I couldn't tell his supporters that he didn't really support Medicare For All, that...
he has always opposed it but was pressured into it. All they saw was that he co-sponsored the bill. If any of them asked him, like I did, he just replied "I co-sponsored the bill." But there's no way he's going to vote for this. He just sent me a letter LAST WEEK saying...
that although he's a co-sponsor, he doesn't know how we pay for it. He's a grifter. And Congress is filled with Reps like this, who co-sponsor legislation like the Green New Deal to silence critics, but then just sit on it, doing nothing. These people need to be exposed to...
voters so that everyone in their districts KNOWS who is willing to vote against their healthcare to protect their donors. I don't understand why detractors of @jimmy_dore can't see just how valuable this is, how great a victory it would be, just to expose the grifters. This is...
Like him or loathe him, @jimmy_dore came up with a pretty great plan to get a vote on #MedicareForAll before the end of the year, by asking members of the Progressive Caucus to withhold their vote for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker in 2021, as a... 1/5
negotiating tactic, unless she brings Medicare For All up for a vote. Supporters of this plan include the Hill's @krystalball , @BernieSanders former press secretary @briebriejoy and co-founder of the Justice Democrats @KyleKulinski . Please watch...2/5
the video to learn more about the plan, and contact some Progressive Caucus Members, especially if you're a constituent, and ask them to withhold their vote for Pelosi. Here are some members that SHOULD be friendly to Medicare For All: 3/5
Joe Biden had a meeting with some civil rights leaders (and excluded @Blklivesmatter ) a few days ago. As leaked audio reveals, when these leaders asked Joe to use an executive order to create a database of police misconduct, he gets angry and defensive, saying that they... 1/6
shouldn't be disappointed because he's been talking about restoring the soul of the nation, because of Charlottesville, AND that he's the only one whose been talking about Charlottesville.
Let me rephrase what I just said, civil rights leaders, concerned about police... 2/6
violence, asked Joe to create a way to know who abusive officers are before cities hire them and Joe's answer was that saying that racism is bad should be good enough for them. They want systemic change and he wants nothing to fundamentally change.
YouTube has announced it will remove content that claims the 2020 election was fraudulent. Most of us know that Biden won, but that's not the point. I have talked at length about problems with our elections, but that also is not the point.
The point is that social media programs are being allowed to control the narrative, control the way most of us think about certain issues, by censoring those with different views. That's not the American way!
"hate" but only towards protected groups. If you use hate against SOME groups, it's okay with them. And mark my words, one day, the far right WILL start calling progressivism hate speech against the wealthy.
This is Scott Sedgley, #Napa's Mayor elect. As City Council Member, he gained popularity because he was one of the leaders of the Measure C campaign to protect the watershed, which he talked about as a water use issue.
But if you think he's a staunch defender against... 1/4
overdevelopment of vineyards and tourist traps, you might want to take a look at his donor list, which includes oligarch Craig Hall (of wine cave infamy), the Wiseman Company ($5000!), Altamura Enterprises, the Doctor's Company ($8000! Wow!), First & Main (also the Wiseman... 2/4
Company, another $5000!), the Wine Train, Senator Dodd, JBD Consulting, Alfredo Pedroza, Truchard Vineyards, BLT Enterprises (LA based developer), David Phinney, Luna Vineyards, Eagle Eye LLC, Mazotti Holdings, Congressperson Thompson, Sacramento International Jet Center,... 3/4
This is Beth Painter, #Napa City Council Member-elect. Beth works as a professional land use planner, and has worked for many real estate developers. Beth has also spent a number of years as a planning commissioner. Call me crazy, but it sure seems like a conflict of... 1/10
interest for someone who works for developers to serve as a planning commissioner, where they can help sway the system to their colleague's benefit. Maybe as City Council Member she'll get to vote on projects that she passed as Planning Commissioner.
In 2016 she helped... 2/10
one of her contributors, Napa Vault Storage, obtain a permit to build 130 condo storage units in south Napa County over the objections of environmentalists and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife because of loss of foraging habitat for the threatened Swainson’s....3/10
Almost all of us know what's right regarding #healthcare, regarding #environment, regarding #education, regarding the #economy, but our lying government refuses to do it so the rich can make money. Yet somehow almost all of us convince ourselves that the next liar isn't ... 1/4
a liar, that they deserve the chance for us to completely disregard their record and everything terrible they've voted for, all the #death that is on that person's head, and give them another chance.
And then when that person starts to do more terrible things that lead to...2/4
more death, many of us say "Give her/him time" and as time passes, the next election approaches, and those people say we shouldn't question because the "other" party might win. It's high time we start holding government officials accountable right away, instead of ... 3/4