Harris End of Year Email Details Progressive Agenda Items
Harris is not going to be a “one and done’ candidate That is good news for everyone in Delaware who wants to see the progressive flywheel keep turning.
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Projects that will continue into 2019:
1. Delaware Statewide Committees: Growing out of the campaign are Delaware statewide committees which will continue to build on the power of the people. All Delawareans are welcome to participate and help draft policy, lobby legislators for changes, participate in community outreach, and host education forums for communities.
The best part is all three counties will be involved in in every committee from the beginning, ensuring that we all have the ability to be heard.
These committees will focus on state and national issues. There will be committees for education, voting rights, criminal justice reform, healthcare, immigration, environmental justice, and economic justice.
If you would like to become a part of any of these committees please fill out the form attached to this link and a team member will contact you.
2. Medicare For All: Currently, I am working to help draft and promote Medicare For All. This legislation will benefit individuals, families, and the nation.
It will be a tough battle to win as we will have to fight against propaganda thrown at us by insurance companies looking out for their own best interests and legislators who are funded by those insurers. However, rest assured, I will not back down from a hard fight.
3. Anti-poverty: I am working with local and national organizations to fight poverty in Delaware and several other states to improve working people’s lives.
4. Green New Deal: I am working to promote a Green New Deal that will help save our planet, rebuild the middle class by creating good-paying jobs, improve our infrastructure, make us energy independent, and improve our economy.
YES, all of these things are possible if we choose to prioritize all of these areas.
She’s a real one. I knew it from day one.
And even if she isn’t your perfect candidate, a robust progressive statewide campaign has huge upsides no matter what.
Read this about Beto:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/beto-orourke-was-just-the-beginning-in-texas/
Even if he isn’t your perfect liberal, see how having him run statewide in Texas overturned the chessboard.
I am wondering what she means by “working to help draft and promote Medicare For All. “
HR 676 and S 1804 are already drafted and have co-sponsors. If she has concerns about either bill, I am interested in hearing what they are.
http://healthoverprofit.org/2018/12/28/two-medicare-for-all-plans-hr676-and-s1804/
The current session ends next month. They die with the current Congress. Considering that neither came close to passage, neither can expect to pass the next Congress either.
Since the bills aren’t identical, suppose you tell us which one you support before we go bothering people like Kerri Harris who have better things to do than listen to a quisling.
And don’t forget what happened to Quisling.
Quiznos?
“Every few months I remember that a major chain of restaurants thought this was going to sell sandwiches.”
https://twitter.com/JensenClan88/status/1079083571002785792
Oh, you mean the Nazis.
I’m not really interested in a Delaware-only Medicare for All. Maybe a big wealthy state with diverse income streams like CA or NY could pull it off, but not Delaware. Universal health care needs to be… universal.
Unfortunately that’s the fly in the ointment. Universal has to mean everyone in order to spread the wealth and the risk. The obstacle are all the states, each with their own insurance commissioners who have a vested interest in the status quo. Universal at the national level is the only logical way to implement it. Although I would like to see an effective pilot program in a large state (with federal assistance) to iron out the kinks. I’m sure some will opine that we already have plenty of models in other countries. However, while we can certainly learn from those experiences, buy in would happen quicker when there is American experience. And of courses someone will point out that the American experience is the existing Medicare, but then that experience has the medigap. My in laws are paying over $600 a month for supplemental insurance, which they can ill afford because their primary income is SS and very small pensions. While universal health care is doable, it’s not simple.
I have wondered why we don’t start with Universal Catastrophic Care.
Seems like everyone kicking in pennies to avoid Cancer bankruptcy would be something everyone could get behind.
Excellent idea! It’s really great starting point. If I were presented with such a plan at some nominal amount, I would buy it in a minute. If it were effectively implemented, people would be clamoring to have their pet disease/condition covered. Before you know, it universal coverage would be fait accompli.
In fact, that is something that could be done at the state level, even a small state like Delaware.
I really like the Green New Deal. That, (along with $15.00 min wage, and Medicare for All), will be a potent force in the next election.
Found this over at Eschaton this morning from contributor and fellow Delawarean, QL:
This post is a few months old, but really worth a read.
It’s the whole Ginger Rogers had to do everything Fred Astaire did, only in high heels and backwards.
Describes the uphill battle poor people face trying to compete with the rich for public office. I keep seeing Carper going to his outsized walk in closet and choosing which perfectly tailored suit he would wear for the debate with Kerri Harris. Meanwhile, Kerri had one pair of dress pants that she wore for all campaigning and canvasing. Those pants decided to rip that morning. She had just enough $ to buy a cheap blazer. There she was that late afternoon before the debate, mending her pants while a friend hemmed the new jacket. Different worlds. I’m glad now I sent her turkee even though I knew she didn’t have a chance nor was she really qualified. The fact that she held her own in the debate was a victory in and of itself. Carper had 43 years in elective office. This was her first run. She done did good! She still has some campaign debt, so I’m sending her a little something for the new year.
I don’t expect anyone here to do so, but if you’re inclined, here’s the link.
https://secure.actblue.com/…
Running For Office Is Really Hard If You’re Not A Millionaire
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/running-for-office-congress-house-millionaires_us_5c0019b2e4b0864f4f6b5535?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
….After the campaign, Harris sent an email to her supporters, asking them to help her pay off her campaign debt. Candidates send these notes out all the time, but Harris was more open and transparent about her need for assistance and the rigged system in place:
But one of the biggest lessons I learned on this campaign was this: the system is absolutely, positively set up for the rich to run for office in America, while the rest of us are expected to follow their lead even if they aren’t representing our best interests.
And that is completely messed up.
Following the campaign, I spent my time continuing to fight for all of the solutions we collectively fought for, but as I was fighting, campaign bills kept rolling in. After working to whittle it down, I’ve managed to retire much of it. But I’m still $14,000 in the red.
Is it any wonder only millionaires run for office? The rest of us can’t afford to.
Harris isn’t sure where she’ll go next. She’s writing a book for Strong Arm Press (whose publisher, Ryan Grim, previously worked at HuffPost), she still receives disability benefits and she occasionally gets an honorarium for speaking events (although she never demands one). She’s also reluctant to take a traditional 9-5 job, since she wants to make sure she continues to help organize and advocate for the positions she ran on.
Harris said she remembers a volunteer coming up to her on the night of her loss, saying that people like her ― and what the Harris campaign represented ― need more than a voice. They need power.
“We built something,” Harris said. “If I quit and run off and say it’s just easier to find another type of paid position, the brokenness she felt that night will be confirmed as opposed to me saying, ‘Look at what we did.’ Even though there are days when where I literally tear up like I don’t know what I’m going to do, and I get worried if I’m making the right decision for my children and stuff, by the end of the day, I’m ready to fight the next morning.”
“… nor was she[Kerri Harris] really qualified.” – Nancy
Her politics were right, so she was really qualified.
Carper’s politics are not, so he’s really not qualified.
That Delaware’s US Senate representation is and has been unqualified for quite some time may be a disquieting thought, but there we are.
Yet again you show an inability to comprehend standard English. “Qualified” has a definition. You don’t get to decide what it is.
Well, if you choose to limit your thinking to what’s standard, that’s your choice and there’s not much I or anyone else do to help you.
Yeah, on the language, I do. Because down the other path lies Trump.
delacrat is correct here. And of course we get to decide.