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BigmanPigman

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15. I live in CA and Dreamers are not trolls and the Women's March, Indivisible, MoveOn, etc
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:37 AM
Jan 2018

had a Nationwide phone call Sunday night about plans for the future and getting women, minorities and young people to run for office in the midterms and they need our support. Two of the women were on Chris Hayes last night and they are not trolls. The grassroots activists are running and winning! They are our only chance to get more Dems to win in the midterms. This is their goal. The activists support equality and equal rights for everyone (including Dreamers). Their lives are in limbo and they are suffering needlessly.
Here is their plan.
https://www.womensmarch.com/empower/

I watched MSNBC tonight and Lawrence had guests on and they made a lot of sense. One said that the DACA/Dreamers and the Shutdown need to be two separate issues for them to get any GOP support in the future. The general public favors the need for a Clean Dream Act but more Americans say a Shutdown is worse than protecting Dreamers and they will end up getting sacrificed when it comes down to it. A few GOP senators like Graham have already moved toward McConnell's side when he moved the deadline up a week (this was news to me). Other GOP reps will do the same and then there will be zero GOP support for the Dreamers. Rachael said that she is skeptical of GOP support on Feb 8th and they will be even more hardliner now since the GOP is saying that they have won the Shutdown battle.

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