Hey Scott, and Jessica - excellent, excellent interview. Everyone should watch it, not only to learn how Jessica got into doing what she is doing, and more, but to hear her pep talk at the end of the interview. It starts at the 18:30 mark and she really rocks it!!! Words to remember every day now and thru the end of this election, and beyond. Thanks for a great interview!!
Thank you so much for including support for the Health Over Wealth Act, Jess. That one is super important as Hospitals and Nursing homes become privately owned, they become more dangerous due to short staffing.
Congratulations on your interview. I will watch it this afternoon. I've been offline for a couple of days due to a huge storm, and I'm gradually reentering the world of button pushing. I think we should all have a break from button pushing once in awhile to process the information we take in and give out. So glad hope is making a comeback. I think people are read to be happy again.
Given the path we've traveled in the past six weeks, two things are very clear:
1. The overwhelming differentiator in this election is NICE VS AWFUL. The country knows which is which. The voters will choose.
2. We will be testing two fundamental principles of governance for at least another four years: The Tyranny of the Minority vs. The Consent of the Governed. When we win in November we must stay steadfast to vision of liberal government and NOT make the mistake the North did after the Civil War by compromising with a defeated South. We need new rules for dealing with political terror.
I 100% agree. I'm convinced we need to abolish the filibuster. Reading this Lyndon Johnson biography is really underscoring for me just how long we have suffered under its tyranny. It's time for it to go!
I am newly arrived in Oklahoma City and looking for the best way to get involved in electing Kamala and down-ballot Democrats. Got any good suggestions? Thanks!
Check with Indivisible,org to find a local Indivisible group to join. Go to their website and click on "Join the Movement". Enter your zipcode and then zoom in on the state of Oklahoma to see where there are groups near you. Not only can you help them with what they are doing, but several of the members in any of those groups will probably be able to turn you on to other ways to get involved locally or at the state level.
Also RF, and others, be sure to read Jessica's "Win Races - Volunteer for Harris-Walz!" as it talks about their webinars telling you how you can help elect Democrats up and down the ballot. So it's not just for working for Harris/Walz. Check it out!
This is a small thing but I think the readers of this newsletter will understand..... I got phonebanked for the first time today! Other than ActBlue mass texts and the occasional NY-specific text (haven't lived there since 2021), I have never been reached out to in any way, shape, or form, which has always surprising to me since the first time I ever voted was 2020 (I know, i'm sorry!). It was a lovely and brief chat between me and the phone banker, me expressing my explicit intent to vote for Harris and letting them know I actually was about to sign on for another text-banking session with FT6 :) :)
The enthusiasm is real, and everyone here is making such a difference!
Robert Hubble mentioned a group called WAVE in Costa Mesa in his latest posting today. Here's the link to it. The entire newsletter is worth reading, but mention of WAVE is in the "Opportunities for Reader Engagement" section.
Ease private equity OUT of health care. Support MCRA with every democrat and legislator you can contact. MCRA is smoother than M4a, makes is harder to commit fraud than Medicare, lessons defensive medicine better than Medicare. Read the text; short laws are for doing right; long, convoluted bills are for loopholes to cheat with.
The Medical Care Restoration Act is smoother and more effective than M4a. Both Voluntary and Universal, MCRA improves quality of care and decreases cost by making fraud too risky and diminishes defensive medicine to near zero. This is accomplished by moving the economic power, authority and responsibility, to the Dr/Pt relationship which is healing, and away from the hassle of bureaucracy of government, insurance or hospital which interferes with healing and leads to burnout. Medical Care Restoration Act promotes public health and preventive medicine, encourages learning and patient care and restores the non monetary rewards to the practice of medicine and surgery. Physicians will have to earn their keep but can restore their professional honor, cease being proletariat. and enhance the effectiveness of their profession and all those persons associated with health care and healing. The text is 10 pages 5x7 and 16 font in Chapter 2 of “The Price of Eggs Is Down”, amazon kindle or paperback, Vol II of “Sex and the 21st Century:AR-W/(P-I) x ATroc = Q”. "Pleasure Per Calorie" and "How To Be A Happy Former Smoker" continue to be helpful,
“They’d gathered in Chicago last week, traveling from 18 states and Canada to pitch in on the DNC installation, inflating something like 1,000 balloons every 10 minutes. (All the balloons were made from a biodegradable latex obtained from rubber trees.)”
Thanks for joining me! It was such a wonderful conversation!
Hey Scott, and Jessica - excellent, excellent interview. Everyone should watch it, not only to learn how Jessica got into doing what she is doing, and more, but to hear her pep talk at the end of the interview. It starts at the 18:30 mark and she really rocks it!!! Words to remember every day now and thru the end of this election, and beyond. Thanks for a great interview!!
Thank you, Cathleen!
Thanks for having me, Scott!
If anyone is interested in joining a group that meets on Zoom multiple days a week to chat, write postcards, listen to candidates and speakers and can direct you to all sorts of activism, check out Markers For Democracy https://linktr.ee/markersfordemocracy. And don't worry if you aren't sure yet what you want to do, we can help you get started. You can sign up for our newsletter here: https://markersfordemocracy.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=dfa32b30aa&u=d5fd96e36d548227bcb7555ff
Can't second this enthusiastically enough! Markers is the BEST!!
This is a terrific group with many zoom opportunities to write. The members are helpful to newbies! Not to worry.
Thank you so much for including support for the Health Over Wealth Act, Jess. That one is super important as Hospitals and Nursing homes become privately owned, they become more dangerous due to short staffing.
Yes it's really important!
Ahhh, darn.
I was excited about biodegradable balloons and now I find out it's not true.
I know. Bummer.
Congratulations on your interview. I will watch it this afternoon. I've been offline for a couple of days due to a huge storm, and I'm gradually reentering the world of button pushing. I think we should all have a break from button pushing once in awhile to process the information we take in and give out. So glad hope is making a comeback. I think people are read to be happy again.
I agree!
Thanks for understanding 😊🙏
Given the path we've traveled in the past six weeks, two things are very clear:
1. The overwhelming differentiator in this election is NICE VS AWFUL. The country knows which is which. The voters will choose.
2. We will be testing two fundamental principles of governance for at least another four years: The Tyranny of the Minority vs. The Consent of the Governed. When we win in November we must stay steadfast to vision of liberal government and NOT make the mistake the North did after the Civil War by compromising with a defeated South. We need new rules for dealing with political terror.
I 100% agree. I'm convinced we need to abolish the filibuster. Reading this Lyndon Johnson biography is really underscoring for me just how long we have suffered under its tyranny. It's time for it to go!
I am newly arrived in Oklahoma City and looking for the best way to get involved in electing Kamala and down-ballot Democrats. Got any good suggestions? Thanks!
I will put out feelers!
Check with Indivisible,org to find a local Indivisible group to join. Go to their website and click on "Join the Movement". Enter your zipcode and then zoom in on the state of Oklahoma to see where there are groups near you. Not only can you help them with what they are doing, but several of the members in any of those groups will probably be able to turn you on to other ways to get involved locally or at the state level.
Also RF, and others, be sure to read Jessica's "Win Races - Volunteer for Harris-Walz!" as it talks about their webinars telling you how you can help elect Democrats up and down the ballot. So it's not just for working for Harris/Walz. Check it out!
This is a small thing but I think the readers of this newsletter will understand..... I got phonebanked for the first time today! Other than ActBlue mass texts and the occasional NY-specific text (haven't lived there since 2021), I have never been reached out to in any way, shape, or form, which has always surprising to me since the first time I ever voted was 2020 (I know, i'm sorry!). It was a lovely and brief chat between me and the phone banker, me expressing my explicit intent to vote for Harris and letting them know I actually was about to sign on for another text-banking session with FT6 :) :)
The enthusiasm is real, and everyone here is making such a difference!
Thank you for all that you do, you give me hope!
I’d be interested to know if the are any groups such as the one in Pasadena- I live in the Costa Mesa Newport Beach area
Robert Hubble mentioned a group called WAVE in Costa Mesa in his latest posting today. Here's the link to it. The entire newsletter is worth reading, but mention of WAVE is in the "Opportunities for Reader Engagement" section.
https://open.substack.com/pub/roberthubbell/p/a-moment-of-opportunity-and-promise?r=8c1du&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Yes! You should come to their event I'm actually speaking at it in person!
https://www.wave4all.org/ On September 5!
Ease private equity OUT of health care. Support MCRA with every democrat and legislator you can contact. MCRA is smoother than M4a, makes is harder to commit fraud than Medicare, lessons defensive medicine better than Medicare. Read the text; short laws are for doing right; long, convoluted bills are for loopholes to cheat with.
The Medical Care Restoration Act is smoother and more effective than M4a. Both Voluntary and Universal, MCRA improves quality of care and decreases cost by making fraud too risky and diminishes defensive medicine to near zero. This is accomplished by moving the economic power, authority and responsibility, to the Dr/Pt relationship which is healing, and away from the hassle of bureaucracy of government, insurance or hospital which interferes with healing and leads to burnout. Medical Care Restoration Act promotes public health and preventive medicine, encourages learning and patient care and restores the non monetary rewards to the practice of medicine and surgery. Physicians will have to earn their keep but can restore their professional honor, cease being proletariat. and enhance the effectiveness of their profession and all those persons associated with health care and healing. The text is 10 pages 5x7 and 16 font in Chapter 2 of “The Price of Eggs Is Down”, amazon kindle or paperback, Vol II of “Sex and the 21st Century:AR-W/(P-I) x ATroc = Q”. "Pleasure Per Calorie" and "How To Be A Happy Former Smoker" continue to be helpful,
I am a little south of the Twin Cities in MN and would love to connect with others for postcarding/text-banking.
I loved the interview. Thanks so much for posting it ! Onward.
trying to find a post card writing group in San Diego, any suggestions?
Trying to find a postcard writing group in San Diego, any suggestions
This is what I read!
“They’d gathered in Chicago last week, traveling from 18 states and Canada to pitch in on the DNC installation, inflating something like 1,000 balloons every 10 minutes. (All the balloons were made from a biodegradable latex obtained from rubber trees.)”
Source:https://news.wttw.com/2024/08/23/dnc-balloon-drop-wasn-t-just-kamala-harris-balloon-artists-created-it-chicago-colleague
I also read it in the Washington Post.
They moved quickly, nearly getting through all the balloons — which were made of biodegradable latex — in one day
Yes, but apparently the balloons are not, in fact, biodegradable. WaPo got it wrong, too.
Darn, I was so excited that there were actually biodegradable balloons! 😢
I know me too.