green new deal

There are now twenty-two members of Congress who have signed onto the Green New Deal, the most recent being Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Katherine Clark (D-MA). It's only a matter of a few weeks before not being in that Sunrise Movement graphic will be a mark of shame.

I watch Stephanie Kelton videos on YouTube and I talk with her on the phone but one of the reasons I ventured out of balmy Los Angeles for the frozen shores of Lake Champlain was because I knew Stephanie would be speaking at Berniepalooza. She didn’t disappoint and speaking with her and watching her on the Green New Deal panels were highlights of my rare trip back east.

The first 6 freshmen to sign onto the #GreenNewDeal, which is seeking to establish a new House committee to deal with Climate Change, are Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Deb Haaland (D-NM), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). Hey, California! What's up with that?

A platform of integrated policies

Why was there a New Deal in the Great Depression of the 1930s and none in the Great Recession that started in 2008, the year Obama was elected president?
In the 1930s there were huge organizations that were on the side of regular people. They applied pressure on Franklin Roosevelt (FDR): Socialists, Communists, and growing unions. Since then, decade by decade, the organized groups were systematically beaten down. 

Our democracy is based on GOTV, Getting Out The Vote, and we did it! Most of the grand total of 5,239 write-in votes went to cartoon characters, dogs, or others who did not do the paperwork. Of those who did become “qualified” write-in candidates, I received 832 votes, followed by a Republican with 178 votes, Libertarian 39, No Party Preference 26, and American Independent 3.