Friday
1. August Is for Taking Away Healthcare
Topher Spiro has sent out a red alert that the GOP in Congress are planning to forgo their August recess to stay in session and decimate our healthcare. Their goal is to gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions, make junk plans permanent, and wave ACA protections. If a state chooses to spend block grant money on Medicaid, this bill will allow healthy people to cash out of their benefit. Republicans plan on using a budget resolution so it can be passed on party line votes. This bill is bad news, people. We need to start making noise about it now.
Topher Spiro has sent out a red alert that the GOP in Congress are planning to forgo their August recess to stay in session and decimate our healthcare. Their goal is to gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions, make junk plans permanent, and wave ACA protections. If a state chooses to spend block grant money on Medicaid, this bill will allow healthy people to cash out of their benefit. Republicans plan on using a budget resolution so it can be passed on party line votes. This bill is bad news, people. We need to start making noise about it now.
Read more about it here: https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/996766533887066113
Or here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/…/republicans-know-voters-are-goin…
The good news (I guess) is that we have fought this before. We know what to do, so let’s get started. If you have a Republican representative, let them know you are on to their scheme.
Or here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/…/republicans-know-voters-are-goin…
The good news (I guess) is that we have fought this before. We know what to do, so let’s get started. If you have a Republican representative, let them know you are on to their scheme.
2. Farm Bill Today
The farm bill (HR 2) is bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. The House is planning on voting on it today. Americans from the rural Midwest, many of whom voted for conservative candidates, will be feeling the heat. Keep calling until the vote is done.
https://www.motherjones.com/…/if-house-republicans-get-the…/
The intention of kicking so many people off of food assistance is to recoup some of the money lost by the omnibus budget bill. Adding the work requirement rule to the Farm Bill is so expensive, it will eat up all of those savings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/03998746-5a10-11e8-8836-a4…
The farm bill (HR 2) is bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. The House is planning on voting on it today. Americans from the rural Midwest, many of whom voted for conservative candidates, will be feeling the heat. Keep calling until the vote is done.
https://www.motherjones.com/…/if-house-republicans-get-the…/
The intention of kicking so many people off of food assistance is to recoup some of the money lost by the omnibus budget bill. Adding the work requirement rule to the Farm Bill is so expensive, it will eat up all of those savings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/03998746-5a10-11e8-8836-a4…
3. Jason Lewis’ Tiny Town Halls
Representative Jason Lewis of the second congressional district is feeling the heat of reelection. So much so that he has capitulated and is having his first “town halls” since being elected in 2016. “Town Hall” is in quotes because the audience was pre-selected and the venues are tiny (seriously, one of them is in a coffee shop!). If you signed up for a town hall ticket and were denied, you can still send a message to Rep. Lewis. Join your neighbors in Wabasha or Lakeville to protest Lewis’ lack of leadership.
Representative Jason Lewis of the second congressional district is feeling the heat of reelection. So much so that he has capitulated and is having his first “town halls” since being elected in 2016. “Town Hall” is in quotes because the audience was pre-selected and the venues are tiny (seriously, one of them is in a coffee shop!). If you signed up for a town hall ticket and were denied, you can still send a message to Rep. Lewis. Join your neighbors in Wabasha or Lakeville to protest Lewis’ lack of leadership.
Get more information here:
https://cd2action.com/…/protest-at-rep-jason-lewis-wabash…/… Wabasha
https://cd2action.com/e…/lewis-lakeville-town-hall-protest/… Lakeville
https://cd2action.com/…/protest-at-rep-jason-lewis-wabash…/… Wabasha
https://cd2action.com/e…/lewis-lakeville-town-hall-protest/… Lakeville
4. Want to volunteer for a campaign?
Here are the candidates in congressional district 2
Angie Craig: https://cd2action.com/congress/
State Congress for CD2: https://cd2action.com/minnesota-house/
Dean Phillips: https://www.facebook.com/deanphillipsforcongress/
State Congress for CD3: https://www.dfl3cd.org/candidates/
Here are the candidates in congressional district 2
Angie Craig: https://cd2action.com/congress/
State Congress for CD2: https://cd2action.com/minnesota-house/
Dean Phillips: https://www.facebook.com/deanphillipsforcongress/
State Congress for CD3: https://www.dfl3cd.org/candidates/
Sites to Check:
If Trump fires Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, please be ready to take to the streets in protest.
https://act.moveon.org/…/mueller-firing-rapid-respo…/search/
If Trump fires Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, please be ready to take to the streets in protest.
https://act.moveon.org/…/mueller-firing-rapid-respo…/search/
CD2Action https://cd2action.com/, @CD2action
League of Women Voters MN https://lwvmn.org/
Klobuchar-202-224-3244
Smith (202) 224-5641
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Dayton- https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/
Smith (202) 224-5641
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Dayton- https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/
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