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The New Democrat 2 March/April 2020 TThhee NNeeww DDeemmooccrraatt A Publication of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition (PDC) March/April 2020 Responding to the Covid-19 Crisis Mark Your by Ray Mueller When I said I would write this article, I was tempted to make Calendar! the well supported argument how the actions taken by the Democratic Volunteer Center - Volunteering From Home opposition party and this President lead us to this day. Email: [email protected] But you can readily find that article and those facts online. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is all of our At the local level, instead with so much happening, I humbly responsibility to protect vulnerable populations and make sure remind us what we all share in common. We are Democrats. We our hospitals, doctors, and nurses are not overwhelmed. Here show what we believe through our actions, not our words. are some ways you can volunteer while helping your • We have neighbors who are hungry. community stay safe: https://demvolctr.org/ In addition to letter/postcard writing, the website will give information to • We have neighbors who need shelter. phone/text banking availabilities. • We have neighbors who are sick. Email any of these volunteers for information on how to postcard for Reclaim Our Vote: • We have neighbors who are running out of money. Pat: [email protected] • We have neighbors who are in despair. Deb: [email protected] Elsa: [email protected] Not one of our community’s challenges were paused by the Nancy: [email protected] Coronavirus. They were many and they have only been amplified. Visit this page to download and print letters at home for We must organize, advocate and take action on the problems Swing Left (via Vote Forward). Don’t mail them yet — these we identify locally in the present and that we can foresee in the letters get mailed in October. https://votefwd.org/vote- immediate future. We must come together and work with our forward-instructions.pdf local health care providers, our local leaders and non-profit Find Democratic postcarding campaigns here: organizations who are going to need whatever support we can https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX- provide, (physical, intellectual, informative, financial and political) 1vTd9UmW__Zqj89o4Df8qYhLOK5dimPxreYvGhM97wZ- l2Cj8DcfRD3a-JAJrQbgiIaB3kKOj525G9ul/pub to make the very best decisions in the days ahead. Find places to order postcards, stamps, etc here: We need to use our technology to communicate, to lift each https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR6- other up, to share the best information in support of public health A5U6WIF- and to encourage the very best in each other and our neighbors. ppqsX8RJF1LhY18cBwdsKFIHvsB85Zl7yrgOhQKzcyssfyvDu9 This is a pandemic. We cannot wait for others to help our e3U67dWoiUZvYSbIF/pub community. The whole world is experiencing this at the same Our office is currently closed. Please visit time. https://demvolctr.org/ for updates to learn when and where We are Democrats and we are problems solvers. It’s just our new office is opening. another day helping others. We got this. Sister District Peninsula Due to the presence of the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus) in See page 7 for more information. San Mateo County, we are evaluating our events schedule week by week. Please check this website frequently for If you, or someone you care about, are feeling updates. https://www.sisterdistrictcapeninsula.org/ overwhelmed with emotions like sadness, depression, or anxiety, or feel like you want to harm Swing Left Peninsula yourself or others call 911 As a precautionary measure due to COVID-19, Swing Left Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Peninsula is cancelling all letter writing parties until further notice. However, you can write letters from home! Visit the Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Disaster Distress Helpline: website for more information. 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746. https://swingleft.org/group/swing-left-peninsula/join (TTY 1-800-846-8517) The New Democrat 2 March/April 2020 world of prosperity for everyone. I see faults in both arguments. Back when Biden was the Vice President, we still had racism in our country. We still had poverty and increasing inequality. Simply electing a President Biden wouldn’t solve all of our problems. But I strongly believe that President’s Bernie will be unable to bring about the revolution that he promises. If Presidents were able to single-handedly create Column revolutions, President Trump would’ve done it already. Of course, it would be quite different from the revolution that Bernie touts, Leora Tanjuatco but it would be a revolution nonetheless. It is only because of our system of checks and balances that there is a semblance of a democracy still intact. Of course, come November, I’ll vote for Bernie or Biden, whoever the nominee is. And in December, I’ll continue work as Super Tuesday, and the a member of the Democratic party, whoever our President is. Tuesdays Before It For as far back as 2018, I can remember people asking me Fire Prevention who I was going to vote for, as the Democratic nominee for President. At first, I was a proud member of the KHive — I loved by Chris Roat Kamala Harris. I thought she had the potential to unite the party and, because of her resemblance to Obama (in race, experience, and moderate political strategy), become our first female president. Honestly, I felt that she was different enough from Hillary that the question of her electability would be answered more clearly in the affirmative than any of the other female candidates. Then, I took one of the policy tests from The Washington Post and found that Cory Booker’s proposed policies were most in line with my values and opinions. Being the policy-focused person that I am, I considered supporting him instead of Kamala. After Christmas and after Kamala had dropped out, I was riding in a car in upstate New York, once again answering the question of who I would vote for. “Biden.” I said. “Because we have to remember that Hillary won the popular vote, and she didn’t win the election because of the electoral college. I’ve read Our country is burning. And I'm not just talking about a a couple of things that said that Biden has the best chance in the President's pants being on fire. It's not a stretch to take this swing states, so that’s why I’m voting for him.” heat-based analogy to the level of a raging forest fire. People's “That makes sense,” my husband’s cousin replied, “but if we lives and livelihoods are being destroyed. It's clear that it's all- really want a woman as president, we have to vote for women. If hands-on-deck to deal with the current situation, as we pin we don’t vote for a woman, we become the reasons why women our hopes on future leaders to help clean things up. can’t succeed in politics.” If we take a step back, how did we get here? If you look Her reasoning stuck with me. It stuck in my head all the way around, you'll notice a lot of kindling which is fueling the until February 20th, when I cast my vote for Elizabeth Warren. I fire—and which is likely to cause future fires. We see wanted to be the kind of person who voted for a woman, even politicians choosing their constituents to solidify their when the odds seemed impossible. I wanted to vote for the reelection and overstay their welcome. We see wealth person who I thought would be the best president. I wanted to controlling a disproportionate amount of political influence. trust in the democratic system, everything else be damned. So I We see unfair elections, where popular candidates steal each voted for Elizabeth Warren. other's votes and cause unpopular candidates to be elected And now she’s dropped out, and we are left with two men instead. standing: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. My friends who support With this much fuel, it was only a matter of time before a Bernie have argued that he is going to lead the revolution that we spark found the right conditions to ignite into the devastation need. My friends who support Biden contend that he is the best we see. It's going to take a lot of effort to put out the current positioned to defeat Trump, and restore our democratic fires, but we should not forget to dedicate time and effort to institutions so that we will no longer have to suffer anxiety attacks fire prevention. Otherwise, we will never make progress as we as we read the nightly news. Biden supporters talk about a return to normalcy while Bernie supporters talk about a brave new (continued on page 6) The New Democrat 3 March/April 2020 most committed to a Democratic victory in the fall. Steyer’s ads Martin’s urged that we remember that any of the Democrats is “far better than the criminal currently in the White House.” Bloomberg pledged that his money and his organization would be at the EDITORIAL disposal of the Democratic candidate no matter who that may be. by PDC Member Martin Gorfinkel The times would be less nerve -racking if each of the candidates were equally unambiguous about his or her dedication to victory in November! Much of the discussion about candidates for the Democratic A “win” in the primaries is given to the candidate with the Nomination for President concerns money. Who has how much most votes; that makes it possible for someone to win in most of and from whence cometh the funds spent on the candidate’so the states and still arrive at the convention without a majority of behalf.
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