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Sep 22

@GKBTSMI

📣 UPDATE x2: Two days later, the *other* two Bloomfield Hills Schools board candidates have also quietly been removed from @GKBTSMI's endorsement page.

Still no public acknowledgement by any of the four as to why they were endorsed in the first place.
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@GKBTSMI

Again, the "Moms for Liberty"-affiliated PAC's own policy states that candidates have to *request* an endorsement.

So either @GKBTSMI ignored their own policy & just endorsed them for the hell of it w/out letting them know...or the slate candidates lied about knowing about it.

Even if, as they claimed, "none of them" knew anything about the PAC or the endorsement until I first tweeted about it, that still means they did *nothing* about it for over 2 weeks. If they were actually surprised/unhappy about it they could've demanded removal within minutes.

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Charles Gaba 🇺🇦

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Sep 20

President Biden claimed the pandemic is "over" even though we still have "problems" with COVID. That was...a mistake. acasignups.net/22/09/19/presi…

The issue isn’t whether he was “technically” correct according to the medical definition; the issue is that if you’re trying to get the public to get the new bivalvent booster shot, funding from Congress or keep the PHE declaration in place, this isn’t helpful.

Let’s say you fly to Hawaii. Once the plane is over land again you’ve technically “arrived in Hawaii,” but if you try getting off before it lands you’re still gonna plummet to the ground.

Too many people don’t grasp that the COVID plane hasn’t landed yet.

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@charles_gaba

Sep 19

⚠️⚠️⚠️ PROBLEM: Election experts keep lecturing you about how vitally important it is for Dems to flip STATE LEGISLATIVE seats blue...but there's *thousands* of them and who the hell knows which seats are even competitive at that level? 1/ americabluein22.com/state_leg/

@davesredist

🎉🎉🎉SOLUTION: I've compiled links where you can donate DIRECTLY to Dem nominees in up to *600* *competitive* districts in 36 states in one sitting!

With a few exceptions, all districts listed are rated between R+10 to D+10 by @davesredist: 2/ americabluein22.com/state_leg/

There's ~7,400 state legislative districts, but LA, MS, NJ & VA don't have legislative races this year, CT candidates use public finance, & some states only have half or no state Senate races this year.

That leaves ~6,400 legislative seats up in 2022. 3/
americabluein22.com/state_leg/

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Charles Gaba 🇺🇦

@charles_gaba

Sep 19

https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1570375568117358592

🎉 GOOD NEWS: I've raised $700,000 for Dems up & down the ballot!

⚠️ BAD NEWS: Last cycle I had raised over $1.8 million by this point.

Help close the gap as much as possible using the links below!

https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1570375568117358592

Related: Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on 9/18/20. This graph shows the stunning impact her death had on Democratic fundraising (at least for my efforts, anyway).

The blue line is my actual 2020 cycle fundraising over time. The orange line is my 2022 cycle fundraising to date.

In 2020, I raised more in the 2 weeks after RBG died (nearly all of it for U.S. Senate races) than I had for the entire 22 months before that (~$1.9 million vs. ~$1.82 million).

I've also included an estimate of how I think fundraising would have gone if she hadn't died.

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Charles Gaba 🇺🇦

@charles_gaba

Sep 19

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1571656466657935363

Welp. Apologies to Garry Trudeau.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1571656466657935363

In all seriousness, however: What *should* the definition actually be for the pandemic being "over?" A solid month with fewer than X COVID deaths/ hospitalizations/ positive tests per day? 3 months with no new variants or sub-variants emerging? Some other metric?

@randomsubu

Pre-COVID, influenza averaged ~27M cases, ~420K hospitalizations & ~35K deaths in the U.S./yr.

That's ~100 deaths/day, give or take. We don't consider that to be a pandemic/epidemic. Should that be the metric? (h/t @randomsubu for the corrected data): cdc.gov/flu/about/burd…

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@charles_gaba

Sep 18

https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1571477904084566017

If you want to know just how much RBG's passing impacted Dem fundraising (especially for the U.S. Senate), here's a how my own fundraising efforts went from 1/01/20 - Election Day (the green line is how much I've raised since January 1st for the 2022 midterms).

https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1571477904084566017

I raised nearly $2 million in the two weeks after she died, almost exclusively for the U.S. Senate. That’s fully 1/3 of the total I raised for every candidate for every office for the full 2-year cycle.

FWIW, as far as I can figure, if RBG hadn't passed away prior to Election Day 2020, I probably would've raised a total of something like $4.5 million instead of ~$5.85 million (I raised another $160K post-Election Day for the 2 Georgia Senate runoffs).

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