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NY_20th's JournalMaine doctor says she is likely to challenge Susan Collins for Senate in 2020
A Down East physician who is “tired of seeing what’s going on” in Washington is likely to declare within weeks that she will challenge U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ re-election in 2020.
“I can’t sit idly by and just watch this,” Cathleen London, who practices in Milbridge, said Friday. “I can’t keep watching this train wreck.”
London said she used to respect Collins for her independence and willingness to split with the Republican orthodoxy on issues such as abortion. But not anymore.
After the senator’s vote to block repeal of the Affordable Care Act last summer, London said, Collins has repeatedly sided with the GOP and President Donald Trump, instead of her constituents in Maine.
“Ever since, she’s gone the other way,” said London, a Democrat who serves on her party’s state committee.
She said Collins “sold us out on taxes” and has failed to stand up for Maine on a range of issues.
http://www.sunjournal.com/maine-doctor-says-she-is-likely-to-challenge-susan-collins-for-senate-in-2020/#.WzbI-op9QX0.twitter
All of these beautiful people protesting across the country
and around the globe are giving me so much hope.
I couldn't attend my local protest today, but I'm following it on twitter, and it's such a bright spot on what has been an awful week.
A.G. Underwood Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Family Separation Policy
NEW YORK – Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump Administration’s policy of forced family separation on the U.S. southern border. The multistate lawsuit was filed by a coalition of 18 Attorneys General in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
“Keeping children separated from their parents is inhumane, unconscionable, and illegal – and we’re filing suit to stop it,” said Attorney General Underwood. “By tearing children away from their parents and sending them hundreds of miles away, the Trump administration has already caused unfathomable trauma to these children, while undermining New York’s fundamental interests in protecting their health, safety, and wellbeing. This is not who we are as a country, and we won’t stand by as the Trump administration undermines the Constitution and our rights.”
The lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General argues that the Trump Administration has violated the constitutional due process rights of the parents and children by separating them as a matter of course and without any finding that the parent poses a threat to the children. The policy is also irrationally discriminatory, in violation of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection, because it targets only people crossing our southwestern border, the majority of whom are from Latin America, and not anyone crossing the northern border or entering the United States elsewhere. The states also argue that this policy once again violates the Administrative Procedure Act, because it is arbitrary and capricious, and that the Administration has been violating U.S. asylum laws by turning people away at ports of entry without allowing them to request asylum.
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-underwood-files-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration-family-separation-policy
https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1013101341818966018
This is another young New York female candidate we should be watching.
Unlike Ocasio, Liuba is aiming to turn a red seat, blue.
The congressional candidate who changed the game on campaign child care aims to depose King.
Fresh off her decisive primary win in the Second Congressional District against fellow Democrat DuWayne Gregory, beating him by 16 percentage points, Liuba Grechen Shirley has her eyes set on seismic upset on Long Island in the general election. Grechen Shirley says that Rep. Pete King is vulnerable and has never had a serious challenger in his 25-year reign. The argument sounds suspiciously familiar to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s potent logic that led to the fall of Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley. Could King be next?
LGS: It's absolutely a competitive race. This is a district that we can take back. King has been in office for 25 years because he hasn't faced many serious challenges. We have more individual contributors than anyone who has ever run against him in his 25 years in office. We're raising more money than anyone who has run against him in the last 12 years. He's not as popular as he thinks he is. There are people all across this district who are sick and tired of his voting record and how it hurts people in this district. King is vulnerable.
https://cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/interviews-profiles/liuba-grechen-shirley-coming-for-pete-king.html
She also successfully fought for using campaign funds for child care.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/10/politics/federal-election-commission-liuba-grechen-shirley-childcare/index.html
Hillary Clinton: 'What is more uncivil than taking children away?'
Clinton’s expression grows increasingly bleak as she catalogues the bureaucratic chaos. For a start, many of the children are nonverbal; others don’t speak Spanish, but obscure Mayan languages. And all are confused and traumatised. Having been “funnelled through a whole panoply” of Homeland Security agencies notorious for “very poor record keeping and incompetence”, many of which are privately run, some babies have been transported all the way from the border to Detroit and New York. Others have gone to foster care families; some parents have already been deported without their children. “You just could not even imagine a worse child-welfare tragedy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/hillary-clinton-on-trumps-child-detention-policy-it-keeps-me-up-at-night?CMP=twt_gu
Fighting for democracy is hard work
But when Election Day looms far in the distance, it’s important to maintain the pressure, to call out the lies, to counter the propaganda, the corruption, the violation of the country’s moral ideals, and the steady erosion of democratic values that have become the calling cards of modern-day autocrats.
http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/columns/fighting-for-democracy-is-hard-work/article_9482ad41-f0e4-503a-96d2-3042e0018844.html
This is a great read. Short and to the point.
The DNC Is Betting on a Woman Boss To Turn The Midterms Blue
“People are hurting all across our country,” Nanda said in comments provided to Glamour by the DNC. “I believe that Democrats are offering the positive solutions so desperately needed right now – solutions forged by the strength of our diversity, the rigor of our ideas, and the decency of our values.”
"As we head toward such a crucial election," he said in comments forwarded by the party, "I’m 100 percent certain that Seema’s leadership will help the DNC capitalize on the unprecedented grassroots energy and enthusiasm surging throughout the country.”
Nanda, who has also worked in the Justice Department’s Division of Civil Rights, is a graduate of Brown University and Boston College Law School.
https://www.glamour.com/story/seema-nanda-democratic-national-committee
I didn't know that Jess was stepping down, but Seema is an excellent choice to replace her.
"If we don't vote, then this democracy doesn't work."
“Reality has an interesting way of coming up and biting you, and the other side has been peddling a lot of stuff that is so patently untrue that you can get away with it for a while, but at a certain point, you confront reality,” he said. “The Democrats’ job is not to exaggerate; the Democrats’ job is not to simply mimic the tactics of the other side. All we have to do is work hard on behalf of that truth. And if we do, we’ll get better outcomes.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/barack-obama-advice-to-democrats-685940
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