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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

28 Feb

I spent the morning at a vaccination event for teachers and school personnel.

It was a massive operation with lots of moving parts, but I just want to tell you about one piece of it.

In the picture, you can see Georgina filling a syringe with vaccine from the vial.

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That's her designated job at these events: fill syringes.

She's excellent at it, and her skill is absolutely crucial.

Why?

Because, given that she's done it thousands of times, she's learned how to get six or even seven doses out of a vial that officially contains only five.

I watched her work for several minutes.

Basically, she's perfected the art of getting every last drop.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

1 Feb

One of the big questions facing Congress right now is how bold the next recovery package needs to be.

From my conversations, it feels like there’s a simple disconnect here.

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For lots of professionals, the economic recovery has already occurred. Their office may have done some layoffs early on, but folks have largely been rehired and things are chugging along.

You see this in the numbers for North Carolina.

Our financial and business services sectors have basically completely recovered in terms of job loss.

And that’s great.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

26 Jan

Hey folks - I'm officially running to serve North Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

You deserve leadership that listens and learns. So we're making this a true 100 county campaign.

This is Day One. Your support now means a lot:
secure.actblue.com/donate/jeff-ja…

300k unemployed.

People losing their homes.

Students and teachers under incredible strain.

Parents who genuinely don’t know if they’ll come up short next month.

And clear racial disparities running through all of it.

I want to use this job to stand up for those people.

Our state has 10.5 million people, only two US Senators, and at least one of them should be in the habit of standing up for people.

We are 0 for 2 right now - and that has to change.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

13 Jan

These days, it’s not enough to simply be honest.

You have to make the case *for honesty.*

I think the way you do that is by pointing out that with dishonesty tends to come defeat and self-destruction.

In retrospect, we should have figured that the Information Age would be followed promptly by the Disinformation Age.

While we’re on the subject, here are four developments I think brought us into the Disinformation Age:

1) Self-reinforcing Facebook algorithm

2) Hyper-targeted digital advertising

3) Full-on partisan cable news

4) New level of shamelessness by politicians who know better

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

12 Jan

Lots of cynicism on whether we can ever break through with folks who have been deeply misled about the election.

First, we have an obligation to try.

Second, even if it's 90% unsuccessful, it's still plainly worth it. That feels like brutal defeat, but it's not - it's a win.

Yesterday I took one approach by providing an avalanche of counter-evidence.

A simpler approach - from Carl Sagan - is to say, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Make sure they know they're making an extraordinary claim, and ask for extraordinary evidence.

And for as frustrated as you may feel, imagine that it slowly dawned on you that *you* were actually the one who was wrong about the election - and how painful that would be, and the lengths you would go to to avoid dealing with that.

Their brick wall would be yours, too.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

11 Jan

I keep hearing:

"But Jeff, are you SURE the election wasn't rigged? Because I heard it was."

Ok - if you honestly aren’t sure, I just put together a list of 44 sources - a number of them supporters of the president - for you to consider.

jeff-jackson.medium.com/was-the-electi… #ncpol

In my view, if you genuinely believe that the election may have been stolen, you owe it to yourself to at least check your beliefs against what you see below.

(And if, upon review, you determine that the evidence *does not* support a conclusion that the election was rigged, the next step would be to cast a skeptical eye toward the sources that repeatedly tried to convince you otherwise.)

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