Thread by @Emily_Burns_V

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What we are currently suffering, is a pandemic of the unelected.

There is no off-ramp for any of these restrictions—and they all know it.

Because the problem is political, the solution must also be. So I'm running for congress.


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This is my call to Team Reality. Politicians, the media, the only thing they pay attention to is $$. If they see $$ flooding an anti-mandate, pro-liberty candidate in Rochelle Walensky’s back yard, they WILL pay attention. emilyburns.vote

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No one believes this has cross-party appeal, that you can use it to capture the middle. They think it's a Twitter phenomenon. Like it or not, the ONLY way to show them it’s real, is with money. I’ve contributed $250K of my money to this. emilyburns.vote

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I put that $250K in, because it is imperative to me that we have this conversation NOW. If, after having had that conversation, we decide we are going to be a submissive, masked, permissions-based society, fine—I was wrong (woe to us then). emilyburns.vote

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But at least I will have known that I did all in my power to change that. I know many feel the urgency of this. I know you know that this is NOT manufactured crisis on Twitter, but the defining civil rights issue of our time--one we can't get wrong.
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6/ Because I know you feel the urgency, I have no shame in asking you to support me financially. We are all in this fight together, and we must support the fight as we are able. emilyburns.vote

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Many of you over the course of the past year+ have asked how you could thank me for my research, support, analysis and advocacy. This is how you can thank me—and it has the added benefit of helping to support the exact cause you ALSO care about. emilyburns.vote

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The truth is, I am very well off (I couldn’t give $250K, if I were not). If elections in this country could be bought, I could afford it. But they can’t (not yet). emilyburns.vote

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Beyond that, I will tell you straight out, people will say that this is a vanity campaign, that I’m just a rich white woman who wants attention. And they will use those things to dismiss my message—OUR message. emilyburns.vote

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This is why I need YOUR financial support. Because if I have an army of small donors, this is not a message they can ignore. emilyburns.vote

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As I said, I’m well-off. My friends are well-off. But as will surprise no one here, there is very little appetite to push back on these policies among the well-heeled. My position is extremely unpopular--but we must have the conversation. emilyburns.vote

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When I first talked to the people who are helping me with my campaign, they ran some polls and showed me the results. I know they wanted me to back off talking about masks and mandates, because they look like losing issues in this district.

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But for me, we simply have to have this conversation. I am not piggy-backing on public opinion, I am going against it, trying to change, or perhaps to "liberate" it, from fear of censure. People don’t feel like they can push back on these policies. emilyburns.vote

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All public policy must be open to discussion, to free and robust debate. Again, I might be wrong. This may be what people in this district. But I don’t think we’ve really had enough open conversations now to say that.

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Many of you who follow me live outside of Massachusetts. You may think that you can ignore what happens here. But what happens here finds its way to Washington, and impacts YOUR kids, too. (Dr. Walensky, etc.)

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We are all in this fight together. And this is why I am asking you to support my campaign, wherever in the U.S. you are, however you can

I will continue to support this fight with research, analysis, and activism--in fact I am re-doubling my efforts
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If you can donate, THANK YOU!
If you can volunteer, THANK YOU!
If you can host an event, small or large, THANK YOU!
If you need help w/mandates or otherwise, DM me.

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This campaign is going to be very grass-roots, and very event-based, so I hope you will sign up on the campaign web site, so that you can be in the loop. I can’t wait to meet more of you in-person.

Sincerely,
Emily Burns

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