A teacher who is a hunter says it's easier to buy a gun than get permission to chaperone an elementary school field trip. The NRA is a corporate lobby, their goal is to sell more guns. They spend more money on the incumbent, Smucker, than on any other member of Congress.
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Question on term limits: Jess is strongly for them. Culture of perpetual campaigning, average member of congress spends 30 hours a week fundraising. [personal note: 30 hours a week is nothing!]. Jess also commits to never being a lobbyist
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Question on campaign finance: how to you make a change when you're one person elected to a large body controlled so completely by money? Jess: accountability to people and pledging not to take corporate money is important. Most vital is maintaining a connection to community
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Question on Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. Jess: eminent domain was used for corporate profit, not public good. Pipeline should not have been built, FERC did not make fair decisions, respect property rights. Same thing is unfolding over power lines in York county
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Question on immigration. The issue divides both parties. How do we get to a consensus? Jess: immigration is being used as a political pawn, to divide and conquer with fear. The rhetoric on immigration has been shameful and un-American. Republicans see the benefit of division
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(this is the only time Jess mentions Trump). Family is an American value. Separating families is never okay; we need more elected officials pushing back. Lancaster Chamber of Commerce (not the most liberal group) proved that refugees and immigrants contribute more than they get
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Reasons that brought Mennonite and Amish refugees here remain the same 400 years later. These are bedrock American values. The legal immigration process takes years to get through. We need a functional immigration system based on our values
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Follow-up from same questioner: "we've become captives of jingoism. We've stopped questioning whether something is true. How do we fix it?" Jess sees direct community involvement as a way around the impasse. Get off Facebook and Twitter (hey!)
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Jess talks about being inspired at seeing children attend her events, but "we have to make sure our civic discourse is appropriate for children," which is the most devastating indictment of Trump I have heard.
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Question: do you have any sense in terms of polling where you stand? No polls, anecdotal evidence and observation is very hopeful. [I would love to see a poll of PA-11]
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I attended three of Jess's five town hall events today and need to take about a week off. I have no idea how they do this.
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