Getting ready for a meet the candidate event with @jessforcongress in Columbia, PA, home of the National Watch and Clock Museum and... meat bingo?pic.twitter.com/xCARhNA2zS
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Jess introduces herself—progressive Mennonite running for Congress. Her opponent is something like her eighth cousin (welcome to Lancaster politics!) so she has no choice but to keep things positivepic.twitter.com/R7sd023Bvn
“Have you heard the saying ‘if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu?” Life feeling like that right now for too many in the district. 40 years of flat wages, policies that work very well for the wealthy but not so much for anyone else
Jess has been meeting lifelong republicans who are going to vote for her strictly because she backs universal health care. Lack of health care stifles innovation and growth in America
This event at a bingo hall in Columbia, PA on a Friday night (and the 12 coming events this weekend) made possible by donations that free Jess from having to spend every weekend fundraising
Mary (a Navy wife with a family full of veterans) says she’s tired of being used as a prop by Republicans who wave the flag with one hand while gutting veterans benefits and health care with the other
This is the front line of the midterm elections. If Columbia, PA comes out for a Democrat, this “impossible” race in a deep red district will be one of the greatest upsets in the countrypic.twitter.com/ftIDEe8y1W
All people here want to talk about is health care, health care, health care, education, and the pipelines being built by out of state interests
Now they’re doing the call to action, so I’ll do the call to action, too. The only way we win in these districts is to free candidates to spend 100% of their time with voters. We can make that happen by giving, lots, right nowhttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
I was on a school board back in the mid '00s in Erie County and I pushed for a community college. I got nowhere because the public sentiment was that there were private, for-profit schools that did the job community colleges did.
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