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ancianita's JournalWhat Do Rural Voters Here Think of Sanders' and Warren's Positions?
This is about more than Iowa, where Dems are campaigning.
It's not about public lands, but farm lands. But their demonstration of care bodes well for those with public land issues, too.
Not being a rural voter myself, I think these ideas seem to show our candidates listening and giving constructive thought to the needs of rural voters.
Which is a damn sight better than anything they've gotten from Trump.
What say you?
Sanders’ rural package also includes a remedy that hearkens back to the New Deal era: a proposal to help farmers of big commodity crops like corn and soybeans coordinate planting decisions to avoid chronic overproduction. This policy is known as supply management. He would reestablish a national grain reserve, a lapsed New Deal institution that collected excess crops in bountiful years to keep prices from plunging, and release them in bad years to avoid shortages (a notion that, as Sanders points out, makes lots of sense in an era of climate chaos).
The new CAP paper calls for an Independent Farmer Protection Bureau, “modeled after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” The IFPB would “investigate and stop abuses of market power; protect farmers’ contract rights …; combat anti-competitive practices in seed and other input markets”—and even have the power to “review and block mergers in markets that affect farmers.” And it would give debt-laden poultry and hog farmers, many of whom currently toil under contracts favorable to enormous meat companies who buy their animals, a federal watchdog to protect them from abuses.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/05/how-can-dems-win-back-rural-america-bernie-sanders-and-elizabeth-warren-agree-on-the-answer/
(photo from the USDA)
The Best Democratic Candidate for President Both Campaigns and Governs
Jay Inslee is THE least recognized progressive of the Democratic candidates. Yet his state is among the top progressive states in the nation.
Washington consistently ranks among the best for life expectancy and low unemployment.[3] Along with Colorado, Washington was one of the first to legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis, was among the first thirty-six states to legalize same-sex marriage, doing so in 2012.
Washington was one of only four U.S. states to have been providing legal abortions on request before the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade loosened federal abortion laws.
Similarly, Washington voters approved a 2008 referendum on legalization of physician-assisted suicide, and is currently only one of five states, along with Oregon, California, Colorado and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia to have legalized the practice.
The state is also one of eight in the country to have criminalized the sale, possession and transfer of bump stocks, with California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts also having banned these devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state)
Inslee just signed new bills protecting orcas, salmon and other coastline ecosystems.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/gov-inslee-signs-range-of-bills-aimed-at-helping-endangered-orcas/?fbclid=IwAR16Wek2u2dF2-vFvgqYabmWQwj0ZdgbE-BMoZSPYoaRbGVqH3ox0jLzMts
Other important parts include improving the state’s ability to enforce permit requirements for work that hardens shorelines, such as by installing bulkheads near homes, and making vessels stay farther away from orcas and go slower when they’re near them.
“These bills are helping to improve the ecosystems that sustain both salmon and orcas, quiet the waters in which the orcas hunt and provide them more prey,” Inslee said as he signed the bills in Olympia. “While there will be more to do next session, these bills give me hope that we can protect these iconic species for decades to come.”
The legislation grew out of recommendations made by Inslee’s orca recovery task force last fall. The orcas that return every year to the waters between Washington and British Columbia are struggling against toxins that accumulate in their blubber, vessel noise that interferes with their hunting, and, most seriously, a dearth of chinook salmon, their preferred prey. There are just 75 of the killer whales left, and researchers say they’re on the verge of extinction.
Washington State's Department of Ecology, created in February 1970, was the first governmental agency in the US devoted to environmental protection, even predating the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The Department Director is appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the state Senate.
Washington, the eighteenth largest state in the U.S. and second most populous state on the West Coast, shows more scalable programs for fighting climate change than most other states.
Governor Inslee's recent signings undegird his climate change initiatives for clean (not renewable) energy independence for Washington. He's an executive focused on systems that work together, as the cursory map below shows.
Others Talk, Jay Inslee Acts -- Signs More Environmental Protection Bills
Governor Jay Inslee does it again!
Jay Inslee is THE least recognized progressive of the Democratic candidates, and yet his state is among THE most progressive in the nation.
Washington is one of the wealthiest and most socially progressive states in the country. The state consistently ranks among the best for life expectancy and low unemployment.[3] Along with Colorado, Washington was one of the first to legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis, was among the first thirty-six states to legalize same-sex marriage, doing so in 2012.
Washington was one of only four U.S. states to have been providing legal abortions on request before the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade loosened federal abortion laws.
Similarly, Washington voters approved a 2008 referendum on legalization of physician-assisted suicide, and is currently only one of five states, along with Oregon, California, Colorado and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia to have legalized the practice.
The state is also one of eight in the country to have criminalized the sale, possession and transfer of bump stocks, with California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts also having banned these devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_(state)
From the Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/gov-inslee-signs-range-of-bills-aimed-at-helping-endangered-orcas/?fbclid=IwAR16Wek2u2dF2-vFvgqYabmWQwj0ZdgbE-BMoZSPYoaRbGVqH3ox0jLzMts
Other important parts include improving the state’s ability to enforce permit requirements for work that hardens shorelines, such as by installing bulkheads near homes, and making vessels stay farther away from orcas and go slower when they’re near them.
“These bills are helping to improve the ecosystems that sustain both salmon and orcas, quiet the waters in which the orcas hunt and provide them more prey,” Inslee said as he signed the bills in Olympia. “While there will be more to do next session, these bills give me hope that we can protect these iconic species for decades to come.”
The legislation grew out of recommendations made by Inslee’s orca recovery task force last fall. The orcas that return every year to the waters between Washington and British Columbia are struggling against toxins that accumulate in their blubber, vessel noise that interferes with their hunting, and, most seriously, a dearth of chinook salmon, their preferred prey. There are just 75 of the killer whales left, and researchers say they’re on the verge of extinction.
Washington State's Department of Ecology, created in February 1970, was the first governmental agency in the US devoted to environmental protection, even predating the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The Department Director is appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the state Senate.
Washington, the eighteenth largest state in the U.S. and second most populous state on the West Coast, shows more scalable programs for fighting climate change than most other states.
Hey, DU? Keep checking Jay Inslee out. He's a focused executive with scalable national plans, and not just for climate change problems.
The Serengeti Rules -- Rules That Govern Life On Earth
Bob Paine, Jim Estes, Mary Power, Tony Sinclair, and John Terborg share the stories of their adventures, and how their pioneering work flipped our view of nature on its head.
Across the globe, they discovered that among the millions of species on our planet, some are far more important than others.
They called these species “keystones,” because they hold the natural world together.
These deep connections also work in reverse.
When keystones are removed, ecosystems unravel and collapse—a phenomenon no one had imagined—or understood until their revolutionary discoveries.
DU Has To Mobilize
I Love Primaries, but DU? We've got to do more than one thing around here. I'm a citizen and political participant first, partisan second.
The United States is not in a political crisis. We're in a Constitutional Crisis.
This is not about just some partisan men of one branch of our government not honoring what partisan men of another branch of our government want. This isn't about "gaming" justice. This is about Justice itself.
Over the course of two months we've seen what's happening. The Second Branch, the Executive and its Attorney General, is moving to render The First Branch -- The People's Congress -- irrelevant. It has gutted the functionality of our government for The People while global corporate money has captured almost all three branches of government.
The president's and "his" attorney general's refusal to answer questions of the First Branch's constitutional oversight brought us -- US -- to this pass.
1.
DU must make its voice heard.
ASAP. It will take us 15 minutes. I've done it. It can be done. It's what we do.
2.
Call your Congressional Representative, AND Speaker Pelosi and Representative Nadler.
House phone number = (352) 799-8354
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (202)225-4965
Representative Jerold Nadler(202)225-5635
Dial and enter your zip code and you will be connected.
Before calling, type out in advance your key ideas so that they don't sound emotional.
Make your points grounded in the general rights of The People to see justice done with this AG, over the gaming of Justice that this AG and president are making of the Law, the Constitution.
Speak confidently, seriously.
Identify yourself, what state you're from, and that you're a longtime voter.
Say whatever you think is important. I'd strongly urge that you ad that, in the absence of Barr's resignation, The House MUST relentlessly pursue its constitutional duty to send a message to all those in The Executive branch, that those who refuse to honor justice under the law WILL be in legal jeopardy.
However we put it, this Congress must be obeyed in its constitutional duty to represent the will of The People.
3.
If we do nothing, stay in outraged thrall of events we've never before witnessed, we will collectively suffer the First Branch's congressional power collapse before the Second Branch. It has already happened in the Senate.
We will witness the transformation of a Constitutional Democratic Republic into a corporate-military junta dictatorship. Under Trump. No longer a nation of laws, but of men.
We citizens must speak and act by any means necessary. Democratic law must prevail over any dictatorship of men.
We're all in this together. This is not a rehearsal. This is it.
I'm calling first thing tomorrow morning.
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