7/5 News Roundup & Open Thread
Hello friends! Hope you all had a great 4th and are recovering well enough. As I catch up on the news this morning I’ll post the better findings in the comments and encourage you to do the same (as well as to write your own posts)! Until I figure out whats slowing us down I’ll skip the video of the day in the main-post to see if that helps a bit. Any issues can be reported in the comments, TPW-Mail, or tpwhelpdesk@[google].
Starting off with:
Local boy petitions Senator Ron Johnson for lifesaving health care
While the Republican bill in the United States Senate continues to suffer from recent setbacks, residents of Wisconsin have remained committed to stop the Ryan-Trump Health Care Plan. At stake is the loss of health coverage for 22 million Americans, with a direct impact to Milwaukee’s underserved population.
One of the challengers for Paul Ryan’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic congressional candidate Cathy Myers, launched a petition drive to stop the roll back of vital ACA protections. The 1,600 signatures were collected to urge a No vote by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson.
“The Ryan-Trump Health Care Bill stacks the deck against working people, middle-class families, and anyone who has a pre-existing condition. Whether your health care covers patients with genetic disorders as rare as Jack’s or people who have undergone routine C-sections like myself. The bottom line is that this bill touches all of our lives, and so many stand to lose.”
Among those supporters delivering the petition was a 9-year-old boy named Jack, who Myers met on a motorcycle trip through Wisconsin in early June. Jack suffers from a rare genetic disease, and his situation highlights the dangers proposed by the pending bill, which would end his medical treatments.
“I was born with this pre-existing condition that makes me have no antibodies. It’s called Bruton’s X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia, or XLA,” said Jack. When asked what would happen if he lost his health care, he added, “Basically, I dіе.”
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
Maybe could use at least a local who does videos to edit and engage more.
I’m a fan of doing it way before it’s perfect (my personal battle against perfectionism/procrastination), but in politics, it helps to impress and engage. Doesn’t have to be super, but at least show some effort?
Agreed. All of these candidates need someone with even a little video editing ability, and they need to be making use of them frequently. At a minimum Paula Jean, Jaffe, Jealous, etc etc need a video a week (actually at least 2) detailing policy positions, hilighting constituents and their issues, meeting voters, etc etc. Of all the candidates since Bernie only Quist and Canova have seemed to make much of an effort at this despite the YUGE rewards it can bring in getting yourself out there and countering the established media (and their blackouts). Myers’s launch video was not bad at all and shows some potential to connect with a strong message:
Jaffe is trying to make use of twitter at the moment. But I don’t know if it help that much in fundraising against a multimillionairess incumbent. Still, at least they are trying.
It is hard for an unknown candidate to assemble the talent to accomplish this. It takes money which they usually don’t have. Some sort of central “help site ” (for the lack of a better term} would help. But it could be subject to abuse. I think Sam Ronan was pushing some sort of a thing like this but it seems to lack any traction.
I agree as Bernies first vids were rough around the edge’s but we did get the “America” vid one of the best ever
I loved Bernie’s ads. Just “rough” enough, but lots of homegrown talent.
ironstache’s vid is really good, but he may have heavy funding if Joy and Hill are for him.
I’m on the board of Arlington Independent Media in Arlington, VA. It’s a public access station that not only has the equipment, but also provides training in editing, sound, etc. We have more resources than most Public Access studios, but there are certainly some in most congressional districts. Most important, the access channels often have a dedicated group of trained volunteers who can help improve video. The list is here
Wow! Thanks. :O)
Heavy funding appears to be in the cards
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-challenging-paul-ryan-raises-dollar430k-in-campaigns-first-12-days/ar-BBDOqyI?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U218DHP
Being pushed by MSNBClinton helped no doubt. I have not made up my mind who I am supporting just yet.
That means the “The rich AMERICANS FOR the .01% PROSPERITY will be saturating Wisconsin’s air waves very soon with their ad’s for lie”n Ryan.
Minn. oil pipeline fight stokes threats, fears of Standing Rock
The Future of US Education Is Standing Rock
Dakota Access pipeline developer to keep fighting Indian artifacts case
Kobach Under Fire as Pushback to ‘Repugnant’ Voter Data Demand Swells
LOL! Kobach letter went over like a lead balloon.
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/forty-one-states-have-refused-kobach-s-request-for-voter/article_b074ec1a-60ee-11e7-84ce-f70e4847d2e7.html
I guess that Kobach is now in the clear. At least according to him.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/340740-kobach-rips-reports-about-voter-commission-problems-fake-news
Patriotism in the Trump Era by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Trump’s Phony Patriotism Clashes With the Radical Roots of America the Beautiful and the Pledge of Allegiance
We Are Radicals at Heart — Don’t Forget It
Trump and the Republicans are rushing to get the scissors to finish us off.
Report calls for public inquiry into Gulf funding of British extremism
Qatar economic outlook downgraded hours before crunch Gulf meeting
Would Saudi Arabia be influencing this decision? Does it get dark at night?
Robot allowed into US for competition, but no visa for Afghan girls who made it
Refusal of visa is Ridiculous Those girls look like they may cause trouble,well at least for their competition
And then there is piece in Vox today. Here’s the title:
Bernie Sanders is the Democrats’ real 2020 frontrunner
I’m skipping to just past the middle of the article.
They also imply that Bernie is getting more moderate when it’s the Democratic Party who had moved right over the past 25 years.
Then they pound the ageism meme at the last of the article too:
Yet, there is nothing about Nancy Pelosi approaching 80 or more many of the stalwarts who are also aging.
Yglesias is still trying to “explain” but as usual, he falls short of saying what the Establishment thinks, which is they still don’t understand why Bernie is popular. Maybe it’s because he saw the pain of students and those in the working classes that the Establishment left behind over time?