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12/5 News Roundup – Carina Driscoll Announces Run for Burlington Mayor, Net Neutrality Protests Planned Nationwide & More

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Bernie Sanders’ Stepdaughter Runs For His Old Mayor’s Job

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ stepdaughter announced Monday that she is running for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, following in the footsteps of the independent senator and former presidential candidate who launched his political career from the office.

Carina Driscoll, 43, said she will run as an independent in the March election against incumbent Mayor Miro Weinberger, a Democrat, saying she will work to bring Burlington “to again be that vibrant, forward-thinking city where we are all so proud to live.”

“I feel like we need to bring some new leadership into city hall and we need to change the trajectory we’re on,” Driscoll said from her office at the Vermont Woodworking School in Fairfax, which she founded. “And I really feel we need to bring people together again and have mutually respectful challenging conversations and consult with people throughout the city about the right direction for Burlington in a way that I think we’ve been failing to do.”

She cited the handling of the sale of the city’s Burlington Telecom utility, saying that there wasn’t enough opportunity for public input.

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Sanders said he and his wife, Jane, are very proud of Carina and all her accomplishments and want to be respectful of her desire to do this on her own.

“So, today is Carina’s day and her words and her ideas should be the focus, not anyone else’s,” he said in a statement.

“I certainly am walking in his footsteps but I definitely am on my own path,” Driscoll said.

More News/Videos/Etc. in the comments, including:

*Top Legal Minds, Elected Officials, Democracy Reform Leaders, And Citizen Leaders Join In An 18-Month-Long Deliberative Project To Write And Vet The 28th Amendment
*Sanders seeks students input on post-high school goals
*Trump White House Weighing Plans for Private Spies to Counter “Deep State” Enemies
*Oceans under greatest threat in history, warns Sir David Attenborough
*10 Reasons to Revive the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign
*Pipeline News, Water Protector Updates & More

9/26 News Roundup – Puerto Rico In Crisis, Target Announces A $15 Min Wage & More

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Starting off with some good news:

‘Our Momentum Is Unstoppable’: Workers Celebrate as Target Announces $15 Minimum Wage

In what is being described as a huge victory for the tens of thousands of workers across the country who have for years organized, rallied, and gone on strike for higher wages, Target on Monday announced that it plans to raise the company-wide minimum hourly wage to $11 by next month and $15 by 2020.

“Five years ago, when 200 New York City fast-food workers first walked off the job for $15 an hour and union rights, nobody gave us a shot. Since then, we’ve spread this movement to every corner of the country and beyond fast-food. We did what they said we couldn’t: we won. We won in the states, in the cities, with the big politicians and with the big corporations,” Steven Suffridge, a Minneapolis McDonald’s Worker and Fight for $15 organizer, wrote in an email reacting to the news. “And today, we won $15 an hour for all Target employees.”

In celebration, Fight for $15 and other groups began circulating a graphic that echoes Suffridge’s message: “When we fight, we win!”

Immediately upon seeing the news of the Target wage boost—which will affect over 320,000 workers throughout the U.S—activists and lawmakers immediately began raising the question: if Target can pay its workers a decent wage, why can’t Walmart, McDonald’s, and other profitable low-wage corporate giants?

“C’mon McDonalds, Walmart, and everybody else,” wrote Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who recently celebrated Minneapolis lawmakers for overwhelmingly voting to raise the city minimum wage to $15 by 2024. “Pay your workers right!”

The rest of the days news/videos/etc will be in the comments, including:

*Voting machine concerns have states eyeing return to paper ballots
*Tony Blair Says Bernie Doesn’t Have the Answers (Public Opinion Says Otherwise)
*Bernie Sanders’ Graham-Cassidy Debate Quotes Will Inspire You To Fight For Health Care
*National park ban saved 2m plastic bottles – and still Trump reversed it
*Candidate Updates (Stephen Jaffe, Joe Cunningham, Jack Love, Abdul El-Sayed, Cathy Myers & more)
*Corbyn is a changed man – and he’s forging a path to power
& much more.

8/24 News Roundup – Bernie’s Detroit Speech, Woodfin’s Runoff, Abdul El-Sayed For Michigan, Nina Turner Talks w/ Bill Press & More

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Good morning friends! In this yet to be news roundup:

*Video Of Bernie Speaking In Detroit
*Shailene Woodley Feeling Inspired To Run For Congress
*Nina Turner On The Bill Press Show
*The latest pipeline/water protector updates
*Exxon Knew & misled about climate threat for decades
& Plenty more.

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Joe Cunningham’s Campaign For Congress (SC-01)

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Cunningham’s Official Website

Those of us who have dealt with sick family members understand that the increasing cost of medical care is stressful – both financially and emotionally. Recently, while waiting with my wife for her to be seen by a doctor, we sat in silence together until our number was called. Like most people, our primary focus was attaining a diagnosis and moving forward along the path to recovery. However, anticipating the unknown cost of treatment and how to pay for it added an unnecessary amount of stress to an already tense situation.

I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege. No one in America should go bankrupt just because they get sick. Period. In a country with our resources, no one should forego necessary or preventative care because they are unable to afford it.

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On Criminal Justice Reform…
The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. Our prisons are jam-packed with people who would be better served with rehabilitation than incarceration. Let’s face it – the drug laws in this country are out of date, out of step, and create a class of people who will never be able to get a high-quality education, a decent job, experience home ownership or become productive members of society. We should not lock people away and waste our resources on incarceration in cases where rehabilitation is the more effective solution.

As your Congressman, I will work towards allocating resources and support to at-risk children so that we cut off the school to prison pipeline.