Anna Ramirez Crawford, board chair for the Women;s Lobby of Colorado has a good op-ed piece out in the Denver Post that goes after U.S. Senator Cory Gardner’s (R. CO) abysmal record on women’s health and reproductive rights: It’s no secret that state and local politicians across the country, emboldened by the Trump administration’s overt…
Category: Children
TX-Sen: Cornyn (R) Busted Using Stock Footage Of Estonia School In Ad About Reopening Texas Schools
So we all know he’s an idiot: In an interview with KVUE on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he supports the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it's important to make sure students feel safe in classrooms. “I think starting slowly with online learning, but then maybe transitioning for some students to come…
GA-Sen A: David “Abolish The Education Dept.” Perdue (R) Now Wants To Give Betsy DeVos $50 Million
From Salon: x YouTube Video Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, a Republican up for re-election this fall, recently introduced a bill called the ''Safely Creating Healthy Opening Options Locally Act'' (the SCHOOL Act), which would give Education Secretary Betsy DeVos control over $50 billion in federal relief grants to local school districts. In the past,…
MI-Sen: GOPer Tried To Distance Himself From Betsy DeVos But $1 Million Later, He Hired Her Niece
Salon has a great piece out about how U.S. Senate candidate, John James (R. MI), has been trying to distance himself from the abysmal Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, as he tries to unseat U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D. MI). Except that James can’t stop taking her family’s money and doing them favors: The Senate…
Krugman Sums Up Trump's Handling of the Pandemic – Mostly
I love Paul Krugman. Reading his columns, even the gloomier ones, is one of the things I look forward to at the start of the day. Today’s column starts with a short blunt summary of how the Mangled Mago-face has responded to the virus: America Drank Away Its Children’s Future A brief history of the…
Senator John Cornyn on COVID-19: “We Still Don't Know Whether Children Can Get It and Transmit It.”
I am not sure if this is just general stupidity on his part or if Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas is just doing Trump’s bidding when it comes to reopening schools this fall, but here is what he said about COVID-19: When asked about the safety of Texas students and teachers returning to classrooms,…
IL-Sen: Sen. Dick Durbin (D) Pushes The Senate To Pass Permanent Protections For Dreamers
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: Big news: the Supreme Court just granted 700,000 young people in America a new lease on life, ruling against the Trump Administration's cruel attempt to end DACA. I first introduced the Dream Act in 2001. For nearly 20 years, I've…
AZ-Sen: “Sen. Martha McSally (R) abandoned Dreamers in 2018, now she wants to 'do what's right'?”
Well that’s nice: I’ve fought many times in Congress to provide a legal status for DACA recipients while enhancing border security, closing loopholes in our laws, and modernizing our legal immigration system. I stand ready to continue that work in a bipartisan way. (2/2) — Martha McSally (@SenMcSallyAZ) June 18, 2020 But I’ll let Laurie…
TX-Sen: MJ Hegar (D) Calls Out Cornyn's (R) Donations From Corporations Funding Detention Centers
Received this e-mail from MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: MJ Hegar (D. TX) Team, what’s happening at the border is in direct conflict with our values, and it’s important we hold the politicians who are allowing it accountable. We have children in cages, babies being separated from their parents, and people living in…
OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) & DFA Team Up In The Fight To Shut Down Trump's Child Prison Camps
Received this e-mail U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) on behalf of Democracy for America: Ever since I first found out that the Trump administration was separating families and jailing infants and children in prison camps and for-profit detention centers, I’ve been fighting to put an end to it. This time last year, a court…
Migrant children in private detention center removed under the cover of darkness-destination unknown
The children were removed under the guise of a hurricane. To be clear. Miami is not under a hurricane watch or warning, nor is any of South Florida in “the cone”. In fact, there is no hurricane in the Atlantic at all. We are tropical today, but that means downpours and storms for a couple…
GA-Sen: Teresa Tomlinson (D) Lays Out Her Immigration Plan To End Trump's Family Separation Policy
Playing some catch up here. Received this e-mail from former Columbus, GA Mayor Teresa Tomlinson’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: Separating families fleeing extreme crime, poverty, and violence must not be who we are as a country. Putting children in cages to score political points with your base would have been unthinkable before Trump —…
YOU are not at the Border, you are at a hearing. This is how every Dem Rep. should be talking.
I missed most of the hearing today but caught this link and it was awesome. When dems stand up to these bullies and remind them that WE the People are who legislators represent, then we get somewhere. No more of this, my good friend, crap. People who embrace or enable the caging and abuse of…
What did I do? A year old article..What has changed?
This is a total disaster and a stain on America. This is also worse than a shame and disgrace. Where is the International Human rights Advocacy? http://www.peoplesworld.org/… The ghastly, first-hand account of the conditions was given by lawyers and a board-certified physician, Dr. Dolly Lucio Sevier, who visited holding facilities in McAllen, Texas, and the Clint center,…
There is a strong moral case for a wealth tax
and one can see it in Nick Kristof’s New York Times column today. Allow me to offer a framing, if I may, before getting to the column. And this will NOT be about limiting the influence of excessive wealth upon our political processes. That is an argument for another posting. Rather my framing is this…
Human Traffic Arrests.. One, undocumented. The rest I guess were considered fine upstanding citizens
Another lie to build a wall that won’t work. This came from my county and neighboring counties in Florida. A two-year long investigation into a Human Trafficking case originating in Hernando County has resulted in the arrest of nine individuals statewide. The arrests were conducted Thursday by Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents with…
OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Call To Fire Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D. OR) Tonight, I went on MSNBC to share a bombshell revelation: a leaked memo proving that the Trump administration deliberately created the family humanitarian crisis at the border, specifically targeting children as pawns. What we've long suspected is…
OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Fight To Shut Down Trump's Child Prisons
Playing some catch up here today. Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: Over 15,000 immigrant children are locked up in prisons across America thanks to Donald Trump. But today we got a little good news: Thanks to our pressure, the Trump administration backed down off of one policy that…
NV-Gov: HuffPost, “Education Funding Never Recovered From The Recession. Dems Want To Change That.”
The Huffington Post has a great piece out about how increasing education spending has become a key issue for Democratic candidates running for Governor in states like Nevada, Michigan, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. The reason being is that since the 2008 great recession, many states have made deep cuts to education spending and…
TX-Gov: Lupe Valdez (D) Keeps Up The Pressure On Trump's DHS To Reunite Children With Their Families
Received this e-mail from Lupe Valdez’s (D. TX) gubernatorial campaign: Lupe Valdez (D. TX) Friend, The stories that have come from the U.S.-Mexico border are inhumane and heartbreaking. Children incarcerated, sleeping in overcrowded spaces without knowing if or when they will see their parents again. An infant ripped from her mother’s arms while breastfeeding….
