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brooklynite's JournalYou are Invited for a Reception with President Biden on Friday, June 10th, Los Angeles, CA
I hope you and your family are doing well. I am very honored and excited to invite you to an In-Person Reception with President Biden on Friday, June 10, 2022, in Los Angeles,CA
The Democratic Party and Cheryl & Haim Saban
cordially invite you to A Reception with
President Joe Biden
In support of the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund
Friday, June 10, 2022
Time to be announced
Los Angeles, CA
Address upon R.S.V.P.
Space is limited and all attendees will be required to comply with COVID-19 protocols in order to participate in the event.
Ticket Level
Sponsor ($36,500)
Includes Photoline
Partner ($25,000)
Includes Photoline
Champion ($10,000)
Advocate ($5,000)
Supporter ($2,500)
Attendee ($1,000)
https://fundraising.democrats.org/a/6-10-reception?attr=127241332
I went out to dinner last night...
the restaurants and bars were full, especially with young people, in heavily Democratic New York. People were having a jolly time, and were not dwelling on the Texas shooting, or the Supreme Court or January 6.
I bring this up, because as we move into the election cycle, its important to be aware that the average voter isn't as fixated on these issues (or politics in general) as people here are, and won't automatically respond to campaign messages on them. I continue to believe that we will win or lose the election on kitchen table issues: jobs, inflation, schools, health care, etc.
Bill de Blasio Knows He Isn't Loved (NY-10)
New York TimesWe were in a nearly empty diner in Park Slope, where the former mayor has lived since the early 1990s and where theoretically affections for him should run high. Not too long into our conversation, a guy who appeared to be in his 30s, wearing a knit cap, walked passed a few feet away and took out his phone to get a picture. It seemed as if he was about to voice admiration or maybe ask for a photo. Instead he looked directly at Mr. de Blasio, informing him that he was “the worst mayor New York has ever had.”
The moment all too perfectly distilled the problem that Mr. de Blasio faces: He seems to have little understanding of how he is perceived, even in a neighborhood he knows intimately, where he once served on the local school board and the City Council. But in fact, he has every understanding.
“When it comes to being unpopular, I’m unfortunately somewhat of an expert,” he wrote in an essay earlier this month. The man who served two terms as the mayor of the nation’s biggest city, proudly indifferent to what you thought of him, now wants you to know that the bubble of City Hall was oppressive, that he found it hard to be his authentic self and that, as he put it to me, “the person you’re seeing right now is the person I am.”
We currently have 14 candidates running for NY-10. With a handful of exceptions, the philosophy I hear is "anybody but De Blasio".
Who am I?
Some people here seem to think that I "have it in" for John Fetterman in particular or progressive candidates in general. Some have suggested that I must be unhappy that I haven't been catered to as a prospective funder (nb: I had the same meeting with Fetterman, Lamb and Kenyatta before the Primary). So allow me to clarify:
I don't like John Fetterman. I also don't NOT like John Fetterman.
I am not a progressive. I am ALSO not a moderate.
I am a DEMOCRAT.
My goal in life is to elect more Democrats and have them replace Republicans. In the Presidency, the Senate and the House. In Governships and State Legislatures. Its that simple.
I spend, on average, about $100,000 every election cycle to try to get Democrats elected. As you can imagine however, that's not enough to max out to every Democratic candidate. So I have to make choices. And those choices come down to:
1) can they win?
2) do they have a better or worse chance than another candidate in another race who's also asking for my support.
Doesn't matter if they're more to the left or more to the right than I am; it matters if the voters in their jurisdiction agree with their policy positions. It also matters if they can form a campaign message that is compelling to (again) the voters in their jurisdiction. Not to me. Not to the Party activists. Not to the blogosphere.
I would provide support to Joe Manhcin if he needed help (he doesn't) because any Republican would be far worse. I would likewise provide support to AOC if she were in a competitive district (she isn't).
Does that clear things up?
Another Democratic Congressperson on "Latinx"
https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1530158582611812361The 2024 DNC options are.....
https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/1530310312360087558My preference, in order, would be:
ATL
HOU
CHI
NYC
John Fetterman got a defibrillator after his stroke. But doctors say the story 'doesn't make sense"
Philadelphia InquirerThe uncertainty stems from how Fetterman’s campaign and his wife, Gisele, have characterized his heart condition: a common, irregular rhythm called atrial fibrillation (A-fib). They said the A-fib led to his May 13 stroke, and that is indeed a common cause of stroke. But when he got the defibrillator four days later, they said the device was implanted to treat the A-fib.
But that’s not what defibrillators are for, leading cardiologists not involved in his care to suggest that Fetterman, 52, has another heart condition the campaign hasn’t disclosed.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Anthony Pearson, a St. Louis-based cardiologist who writes The Skeptical Cardiologist blog, said of the campaign’s account of Fetterman’s health.
Never a good way to start a flight...
https://twitter.com/StansaidAirport/status/1530177545232125952Its official: NYS will have two Primaries this summer
https://twitter.com/BOENYC/status/1529458639454425088'There's This Really Consistent Pathway': How Society Can Stop Mass Shooters Before They Act
PoliticoThree years ago, Jillian Peterson, an associate professor of criminology at Hamline University, and James Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University, decided to take a different approach. In their view, the failure to gain a more meaningful and evidence-based understanding of why mass shooters do what they do seemed a lost opportunity to stop the next one from happening. Funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice, their research constructed a database of every mass shooter since 1966 who shot and killed four or more people in a public place, and every shooting incident at schools, workplaces and places of worship since 1999.
Peterson and Densley also compiled detailed life histories on 180 shooters, speaking to their spouses, parents, siblings, childhood friends, work colleagues and teachers. As for the gunmen themselves, most don’t survive their carnage, but five who did talked to Peterson and Densely from prison, where they were serving life sentences. The researchers also found several people who planned a mass shooting but changed their mind.
Their findings, also published in the 2021 book, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic, reveal striking commonalities among the perpetrators of mass shootings and suggest a data-backed, mental health-based approach could identify and address the next mass shooter before he pulls the trigger — if only politicians are willing to actually engage in finding and funding targeted solutions. POLITICO talked to Peterson and Densely from their offices in St. Paul, Minn., about how our national understanding about mass shooters has to evolve, why using terms like “monster” is counterproductive, and why political talking points about mental health need to be followed up with concrete action.
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