Husband to @jehabig & Dad to Nico. I do politics @50p1. Fmr CM @CoryBooker & @GavinNewsom. @ShannonSharpe once called me a heavy hitter. He/him.
Sep 5, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve gotten a lot of inquiries over the last couple weeks about why the Biden campaign is doing something in X state and not Y, or entreaties for the campaign to invest in Z place (usually TX). I have no control or input on any of it, but it inspired a quick thread: 1/?
I’ll start with this: there are a LOT of good non-presidential-electoral reasons to invest in places: Senate/House races, state leg chamber flips, party building, etc. In no way is this thread minimizing that, and BFP is doing a LOT to support others, financially and otherwise.
Aug 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
He is clearly in over his head.
He cannot meet this moment.
Jul 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Going to run 8 miles today for the first time in over 5 years. I’m 40 years old. Pray for ya boy, and his knees. 🙏🏾 cc: @vvaldiv@philkimtweets
Lit.
May 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Because I’ve been a relatively large black man for many decades now, I can forget how psychologically exhausting it is to live with a constant awareness of the perceived threat that is your existence. It becomes second nature, repressed even. It just is. It’s hard to explain.
Anyways, I can’t tell if weeks - months - like this…when people who don’t look like you awaken to your everyday reality…are good…or if bringing those feelings to the front of mind are actually bad for me, personally. This thread doesn’t have a point. Just thinking out loud.
May 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the interest of public accountability, @jehabig and I committed to run/walking 100km (about 62mi) in May. We’re at 16 after 7 days so...a ways to go.
More than doubled in 5 days. Literally nothing motivates me more than a (sometimes arbitrary and meaningless) numerical goal.
Mar 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Keeping it 💯: it’s completely explainable that we are down to two white men to become our nominee. Democratic primary voters’ top priority is beating Donald Trump and, mostly subconsciously, I believe the gruesome reality of Trump’s America has put a fear in our hearts...
...about the effectiveness of the racist, sexist campaign he would have run against a woman or a person of color. It’s politically misguided and deeply unfortunate, given the two nominees who received the most votes in American history are a woman and a person of color...
Feb 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is worth a read. If 4 or 5 candidates go into Super Tuesday with any semblance of strength (and remember, a lot of candidate home states vote on 3/3), buckle up.
Also worth remembering: lotta votes going in the bank right now. SC early voting has begun. My ballot is waiting for me on my table at home in CA. Several of the other 3/3 states have no-excuse early vote/absentee. Field needs to narrow not expand, if not by 3/3 certainly by 3/4.
Feb 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s what I’m ready to say after sleeping on it (I got a good 7 hours, god bless west coast living, I missed you):
1) I’m most upset and sad for the volunteers and staff (and that includes the IDP!) who put months if not years into yesterday to have it turn out like this.
2) The IDP is doing the right thing by delaying to ensure that any official public results are accurate — but unfortunately, into that information vacuum goes spin from campaigns, irresponsible conspiracy theorizing, and stupid schoolyard taunting from the president. Catch-22.
Jan 13, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
345 days ago we launched this campaign (and me, with a typo). It’s been a wild ride—here is a thread of few of my favorite moments:
Cory has family in Iowa — like a lot of family. When he introduced the world to his 100-year-old Aunt Alma (a true queen, right down to the tiara), it was a really special moment. We lost Aunt Alma in July, but I know she would’ve been proud of the campaign he ran.
Jan 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Heartbroken for my team, of course. But also proud of the campaign I ran. Honored to have had an opportunity to lead one in the first place! Excited to get back with my love @jehabig again after a year of living 3,000 miles apart. Hopeful, always, for the future.
Most of all, grateful to have worked alongside passionate people of the highest integrity, from Newark to the states. People who believed and worked tirelessly for a cause and for their country. I’ll have a lot more to say about them — my new family — in the days and weeks ahead.
Jan 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wild stat: 2020 AFC Championship will be the first one since 2003 without Brady, Manning or Roethlisberger in it.
And Joe Flacco in 2013 is somehow the only other QB to win an AFC championship in that time. What a run.
Jan 1, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: Top 7 days of the decade, ranked:
7. May 15, 2011
The day I completed my first half marathon. Never was a runner. Still ain’t. But set out a challenge for myself and trained and did it. Completed 4 more this decade. Want to do one this coming summer again.
6. November 7, 2016
The day before it all fell apart. But I remember that day so well — such hope and anticipation in the office, such a great day with my #DGAF crew, greeting HRC’s plane in White Plains. It was a great day. I choose to remember it.
