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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease support new DUer Stephanie DuBois as you have supported me for nearly 19 years!
Ive run for office before with DU support-not just financial but moral support, tech support (my God, what would I do without OmahaSteve?), emotional, mental, and even spiritual) and Im eternally grateful for that. Im asking again for DU support.
Im in the eye of the hurricane, ground zero in violent rhetoric, grifters & traitors like Cowboys for Trump Couy Griffin, but we have even worse in David Clements more info in the coming weeks.
While Im not running for office this election I recruited my friend and partner in mischief for the past 20 years, Stephanie DuBois, to run for Otero County Commissioner and Ill be asking for you to support this new DUer.
This was in 2010 at our second We Trust Women rally DUer duhneece is in purple hoodee, and DUer and candidate Stephanie DuBois is second from right in ball cap.
Heres Stephanie registering voters at the 2022 We Trust Women rally:
Two days ago Otero County Commission passed a resolution Otero County is a Sanctuary for the Unborn. Truly horrible resolution but the GOOD NEWS:
Stephanie and Ive been the lead organizers for the We Trust Women rallies since 2009 but we quit during Covid. A young woman called the newspaper a couple of months ago and was given my name. I told her I just couldnt organize this year, she pleaded, I told her that if she would meet me at City Hall to fill out a permit (done as a courtesy but it ensures that we get all 4 corners of our favorite intersection on the permit, and we get all 4 corners with no counter-protestors) and prepare a graphic with all the info, I would share it. It was incredibly electrifying. We got huge (for us) crowds at two rallies with a very diverse mix. Our group was mostly seniors, mostly Democrats .her group (shes 22, gay, married, young mother) is young LGBTQ, some military (we have Holloman AFB here), far too many not registered to vote. Weve organized into 4 teams to register voters at the only place we register more Dems and Independents , the barber shop that most minorities get their hair cut at (dangling p ). THEN, when our County proposed this resolution, we got many to come and speak out against the resolution to no avail, but they attended their first-ever county commission meeting, they understand the need to elect Democrats up and down ballot.
Donate to Stephanie here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufordubois22
Please support new DUer Stephanie DuBois as you have supported me for nearly 19 years!
crickets
(25,982 posts)duhneece
(4,116 posts)It galvanizes, it enrages and it fires us up!
We HAD to do something and we are organizing in an amazing way.
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)duhneece
(4,116 posts)StephanieDubois
(22 posts)I just want to thank duhneece for her support and hopefully the support of fellow DUers.
It's been a hard fight in Otero County, especially lately with the passing of the anti-choice resolution, but I think with the motivation of the younger generation we have a chance to change things.
crickets
(25,982 posts)Thank you for all that you are doing to motivate voters for change, and good luck in your run for County Commissioner!
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Thank you for truly representing those of us who arent on the front lines in politics but are in what ways we can be, and so appreciate you whore out there where its hotin so many ways! no
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I haven't played in ages and never made the first chair, but we French Horn players are a rare bred and need to stick together. I switched to drums after two years, which drove my mother and father around the bend, but drummers always got the girls, ya' know? The fact that you're a Democrat helps too.
Good luck, and check back in often. Keep bugging us for money so we don't forget, OK? I don't think Denise will let us forget. She's a special woman and we all love her. Now go get those Otero County republicans and WIN!
wendyb-NC
(3,328 posts)Welcome Stephanie, you are doing a great thing, getting people registered and making the many important issues out there. This is what we all need.
duhneece
(4,116 posts)While admit to curling up fetal position too many times to count in the past few years, starting with the day TFG and Putin won in 2016.
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)We're still in Colorado, dreaming of moving to New Mexico.
Good luck Stephanie and welcome. I'm chipping in!
duhneece
(4,116 posts)From mountains and tall pines to canyons to flat lands. We Democrats are getting stronger. Im ready to welcome you!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)At least the former commissioner-traitor who refused to certify the vote will be gone - for now. What a shame he only got effectively "time served" for January 6.
duhneece
(4,116 posts)Shes tried to have me removed from lawfully electioneering with her influence on Sheriff.
She was cited for animal cruelty but managed to get the name changed to her husbands (he wasnt there and it wasnt their home), who pleaded guilty to sex with a child
.with her influence on police.
Shes Republican Chair, and they have annual Law Enforcement Appreciation dinner. Nuff said.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)So many places, any relatively decent conservative candidates are getting killed in insane primaries in what's almost become a defiant sift for depravity, such as animal and sexual predators.
Here in my blood-red GA district, we had one Republican candidate for congress this year who got our hearts thumping hopefully (a relative thing) by running on real issues. But he didn't come close to our incumbent who tries to compete with Marjorie Greene for depravity but can't interest even RW press.
This craziness will pass too, though. Especially because of people like you guys.
duhneece
(4,116 posts)I hope you have found like-minded folks.
I remember feeling like I was alone, like I was the only Democrat, the only liberal in the county.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)been the same as being with others, of course. I miss that, but we still have friends and like-minded folk are still meeting and busy. Like there.
mvd
(65,180 posts)We share the same last name.
My last name is DuBois. Good luck in her mission!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,681 posts)I am thrilled to support your good friend! I just donated, and I made it recurring. I can't do much, but I can donate.
Hers is a righteous cause!
All the best!
duhneece
(4,116 posts)We will rise, we will not back down.
Well share more soon.
Wounded Bear
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(8,060 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)There has been another $100 since then.
RainyMesa
(3 posts)I will be supporting Stephanie DuBois in District 2.
duhneece
(4,116 posts)Im super happy to meet another DUer from our District, Rainy Mesa.
RainyMesa
(3 posts)Hi duhneece. Sorry I didn't respond earlier. I'm not used to looking at DU. I'm a new member. Thanks for saying "hi."