Here in Hanover for @jessforcongress’s first event of five today. If you’re in a band with Chad and Jeremy, have I got a photo location for you!pic.twitter.com/6iJQ6Bon36
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First question is about the cost of education. Jess is running on debt-free public college, financed in part by Federal taxes on high-frequency algorithmic trading. GI bill is a model for growing a middle class
Second question is on how to bridge the divide between left and right in government. Jess sees the real divide as bottom vs top. Three Americans own as much as half of us
Third question is how to bring in deeply alienated working people from coal and industrial backgrounds, who have suffered deeply. Jess talks about bringing multinational corporate jobs back down to Main Street—a political choice
Question on Medicare: how do we fund Medicare and health care, with benefits going down every year. Example of getting an Rx for a $300 medicine even with good insurance
Answer again is about a moral choice. 70% of people including a majority of Republicans support universal care. We pay twice as much as any other country for care that doesn’t cover everyone. Purely to enrich corporate plutocracy
Question on immigration reform. Jess says the issue is being used as a weapon to divide us. She’s the descendant of religious refugees—so is her opponent. We need a workable legal pathway for immigration, which benefits our communities. Status quo is broken
Now a briefing on the monumental get out the vote effort that will mobilize York county. Summer was about persuasion, but that is only half the battle
York county field organizer George Sanders. Pennsylvania has no early voting, so everything comes down to turning out voters on November 6pic.twitter.com/cSiicXDTJd
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