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@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger I agree that my native state CA should rescind skyrocketing gas tax. I was Silicon Vly paralegal, A's college, priced out of rent there ($3500 mo for 1 bedroom). Moved to Fresno for cheaper rent, Social Work degree @fresnostate. Plans derailed by sick, hospital. -Michaela /1

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState 2/ I spent thru my savings, couldn't get disability via Social Security (a yrs long process for most with many denials). I became homeless. In Civic 3 yrs. Epilepsy. No smoking, drinking, drugs, or crimes. -Michaela cc: @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 3/ I despise former CA gov @JerryBrownGov . And I say that as a mostly Dem voter raised in a Dem family in San Francisco Bay Area. -Michaela cc: @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 4/ I've worked for top San Francisco Bay Area law offices. @JerryBrownGov HAD to have gotten reports across his desk about rising homelessness in CA, aging population, need to address public health issues. Instead he focused on DUMB high-speed train, and his eco ideas. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 5/ Former CA gov @JerryBrownGov could not have cared less about the rest of us. All he focused on was that DUMB high-speed train, more than $80 billion over budget, not close to being done. Sick people like me sleep in our cars. I DESPISE him. First world problems, pal.-Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 6/ CA wouldn't be in chaos on our sts if @JerryBrownGov had kicked it into gear and done real work. Instead the problems grew. Do you know how much housing $80 billion buys in CA? -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 7/ I claim dibs on @JerryBrownGov 's house. He can give me title to it. I'll give him title to my Civic where he can sleep for the next three yrs. @MarieEdinger can you arrange the title exchange ceremony? Jerry hasn't responded to me. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 8/ My proposal is this: Any legislator who votes for more funding for the DUMB high-speed train agrees to forfeit their home to medically sick homeless people in their district. And there ARE such cases in EVERY CA district. They agree to become homeless. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 9/ I guess with some of these fools in the CA legislature, experience will be "the best teacher". Daily search for water is like a perpetual Easter Egg Hunt. Other basic needs. All very hard. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 10/ I've been thru Fresno's atrocious, dangerous, abusive homeless shelters, with untrained and unethical staff. I've received murder threats and false accusations. Now I know why people won't use those "services", spread out. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia 10/ In better times, decades ago, I traveled to Europe, rode fast train between Paris, France, and Geneva, Switzerland. The difference is that France put their citizens first, support services, NOT the high-speed train. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia Had @JerryBrownGov kicked it in gear, solved these public health problems and funding for people, I'd have an apt to live in and a degree from @Fresno_State on my wall. Instead, I'm still in my car, three years later. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State *That was /11.

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @threadreaderapp unroll thread, please .

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 12/ People in CA with broken brains such as schizophrenia (may be caused by genetic mutations), less cognitive functioning, are left to fend on CA's sts, no help and disability, many introduced to drugs. -Michaela, Fresno, CA

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 13/ I've been treated for epilepsy at Stanford since 1968 when I was 6 yrs old (I'm now 59). I take anti-seizure medications twice a day. I have to be treated for depression & anxiety, common co-occuring problems with epileptic brain. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 14/ I've tested positive at Stanford for photo sensitive epilepsy: the color red (I can't shop at Target as all that red creates electrical spikes in my brain. Ditto: stripes, clubs' lighting, concerts, flashing lights, and movies and tv programs. I can't watch movies.-Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 15/ I've been subjected to relentless lectures, anger, and putdowns that I'm "not trying" for work at fast food places, etc, by people not as bright as Stanford researchers. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 16/ I come back to the issue at hand. Why haven't I and others been provided with timely disability payments and housing for medical conditions beyond our personal control? -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 17/ Why have I had to stay in Fresno's hell hole shelters? Why have I been subjected to relentless inquiries about my personal medical business? This should have ALL been avoided. Disability payments & housing. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 18/ By keeping me homeless, the government has now paid more for my medical care than in housing me. That includes two cases of food poisoning from shelters, the second one nearly fatal according to the hospital surgeon who admitted me, dehydration & internal bleeding. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 19/ I've had to be hospitalized for asthma, cardiac problems, and more epileptic seizures. All preventable by housing me. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 19/ I am SO ANGRY at what I've been subjected to and seen, an unaudited and incompetent system, that I'm writing my "free audit" in law firm style to the Fresno County Civil Grand Jury. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 20/ I meet homeless people all of the time who want to be off sts, housed, participate in society. Same story: onset of schizophrenia as teens or in college, first hospitalization then, no disability $ or support services, rendered homeless, introduced to meth. 💔. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 21/ Now out homeless young people have two brain problems: schizophrenia AND meth. Could have been avoided if we had a safety net for them upon discharge from hospital. Such a mean system instead. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 21/ CA's human beings and their medical and stabilization needs are more important than Jerry Brown's DUMB high speed train, at our expense. We've a "green solution" to connect NorCal and SoCal: computers, wifi, and Zoom meetings. So much cheaper too. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 22/ Since former gov @JerryBrownGov and I were both from the San Francisco Bay Area, I'd like to know why he lacked logical thinking skills and thought that high-speed train could go thru built up area. Wealthy property owners WILL sue, as will others. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 23/ I worked in high net worth tax law (estate planning) for tech inventor clients (nice people, BTW) in Silicon Valley. Yes, they WILL sue to stop that train should it ever reach Silicon Valley. Area is all built up. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 24/ I'm a unicorn in the homeless system: educated, no substance use, change state law for crime victims (Safe at Home), law firm experience at top Bay Area firms. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 25/ I did use my paralegal skills and law ofc experience in court-appointed conservatorships to get a homeless schizophrenic veteran, on sts of north Fresno, for 4 yrs, into VA housing, disability benefits, and he's stable for mental illness & diabetes. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State 26/ We treat lost dogs better than that gravely ill vet got treated. So that was a silver lining to my cloud. If I'd gotten my wish for housing, real bed, coffee pot, hot showers, locking door, that vet would have died. He couldn't advocate for himself. Meant to meet. -Michaela

@SenatorBorgeas @KMPHFOX26 @MarieEdinger @FresnoState @GavinNewsom @SecFudge @HowTheWestWS @kevinmnye1 @JerryBrownGov @NAMIAdvocacy @EpilepsyFdn @namicalifornia @Fresno_State Typo: our