Otto Lidenbrock
Otto Lidenbrock's JournalThe Democratic Governor of Illinois is a billionaire
J.B. Pritzker holds more private wealth than any other governor in U.S. history and is the second-wealthiest U.S. politician to have ever held office, after Michael Bloomberg.
He also has accomplished several progressive ideas in his first year in office.
- Becoming the first midwest state to adopt $15/hr minimum wage.
- Legalized marijuana.
- Locked in Women's reproductive health rights by repealing a 1970s law that punished doctors for performing "unnecessary" abortions and signing a new Reproductive Health bill into law when at the same time other states were stepping up draconian bills for Roe vs Wade to be overturned.
- Legalised sports betting allowing the business to be regulated and no longer underground plus pumps money into the local economy.
- Proposal to make an amendmemt to state constitution and implement a progressive income tax rate passed the state legislature and will be put to voters next year.
- Signed an executive order expanding access to welcome centers in Illinois for immigrants and refugees. Welcome centers help guide immigrants on a path to citizenship and refugees with access to health care, education, jobs, and legal services.
- Signed bill to make Illinois the first state in the country to ban private immigration detention centers.
- Signed bill that forbids state and local police to cooperate with U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) to deport illegal immigrants.
- Signed Illinois to the U.S. Climate Alliance which is an initiave by governors who want to fight climate change even if the White House doesn't.
- Signed bill allowing the state to take its own action in fighting climate change, repealing past law.
- Passed a law that LGBTQ figures of history must have their achievements and positive contribution included in school textbooks and syllabus.
This is a billionaire who is doing a good job. They're not all status quo henchmen.
Cenk Uygur's baggage is all on camera and it's disqualifying
https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1196497335691427840https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1196937756020264961
https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1195899079018057728
https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1197550859040804865
Lindsey Graham 2015 vs 2019
2015
2019
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1197629617999425543
'We Should Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit First.' Bill Clinton Wades Into the Health Care Debate
The problem is the system is still entirely too complex, Clinton told told David Agus, CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, at the TIME 100 Health Summit in New York City on Thursday. The premiums are going up way more than wages are going up, and the co-pays and deductibles and the drug prices are going up even more than the premiums. So, were kind of at a crossroads now.
We should pick the low-hanging fruit first, Clinton continued. I think we need to pass a public option and go back to encouraging all-payer systems in states so that you can have some control over the costs and keep it as simple as possible.
https://time.com/5703769/bill-clinton-time-100-health-summit-healthcare/
Julian Castro's campaign is very bitter
Bernie supporter posted this:
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1195947838942982146
https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1196222314972618753
This comes off the back of Castro's very smug tweet in the immediate aftermath of Pete's quote twisted about the Obama Administration. The following day when it was evident the reporter got it wrong and apologised. Castro wrote a follow up tweet:
https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1193881502381170688
"I regret the original was spread widely"
Well gee, Julian. How many other presidential candidates helped spread it widely? I'll give you a clue. ZERO.
"I Know Joe Biden: Rabbi Michael Beals"
It was about 16 years ago, and I was a young rabbi, brand-new to Delaware, on my way to lead a shiva minyan a worship service following a death of a Jewish person. I was from California. Back then, I didnt know Claymont, Delaware from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
A quick bit of background: When someone passes away in the Jewish faith, we observe seven days of mourning, called shiva. We gather a group of ten Jewish adults together a minyan to say the Mourners Kaddish. It usually happens in a persons home somewhere intimate.
In this case, the deceased individual her name was Mrs. Greenhouse, of blessed memory had not been a person of means. She had lived in rent-controlled senior housing in a tall high-rise building off of Namaans Road. Her apartment had been too small to fit everyone into, so we conducted our worship service in the buildings communal laundry room, in the basement of the high-rise.
We assembled the ten elders together, and it was in this most humble of places that I began to lead the kaddish. Toward the end of the service, a door at the back of the laundry room opened, and who walks in but Senator Joe Biden, his head lowered, all by himself.
I nearly dropped my prayer book in shock. Senator Biden stood quietly in the back of the room for the duration of the service.
At the close of the kaddish, I walked over to him and asked the same question that must have been on everyone elses mind: Senator Biden what are you doing here?
And he said to me: Listen, back in 1972, when I first ran for Senate, Mrs. Greenhouse gave $18 to my first campaign. Because thats what she could afford. And every six years, when Id run for reelection, shed give another $18. She did it her whole life. Im here to show my respect and gratitude.
Now, the number 18 is significant in the Jewish faith its numbers spell out the Hebrew word chai, as in to life, to life, lchayim! But its also a humble amount. Joe Biden knew that. And he respected that.
There were no news outlets at our service that day no Jewish reporters or important dignitaries. Just a few elderly mourners in a basement laundry room.
Joe Biden didnt come to that service for political gain. He came to that service because he has character. He came to that service because hes a mensch.
And if we need anything right now when it comes to the leadership of our country we need a mensch.
I know this is such a simple, small story. But I tell it to as many people as will listen to me.
Because I think that, in their heart of hearts, when people are trying to think about the decision theyll make next year this is the kind of story that matters.
Joe Biden is a mensch. We need a mensch.
https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/i-know-joe-biden-rabbi-michael-beals-29efe01d81e1
A penny for President Zelensky's thoughts
A new world leader, young, no political experience, has the threat of Putin in his region and dragged into an impeachment scandal thousands of miles away.
I think it is time the most electable Democrat in the country joined the race
- Knows how to win
- Doesn't need on the job training
- Respected around the world
- Restores moral leadership
- Knows how to build walls (for people to live within!)
Campaign Slogan: #hindsightis2020
Mike Pence's Hypocrisy on Whistleblowers (VIDEO)
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