Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Tuesday 5/1 Call to Action

Tuesday
1. Congress at Home
Congress is on recess this week. I wonder where Minnesota’s members will pop up for a photo op? If your elected officials have been stingy with the town halls, perhaps today would be a good day to call and ask them about it.
The so called “Farm Bill” is waiting for a vote in the House when Congress returns from recess. This bill appears to be a real partisan turd burger. Check it out:
*Loopholes that benefit large conglomerate farms at the expense of small family farmers
*Hurts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by adding work requirements
*Cuts spending on programs that protect clean drinking water, and exempts some pesticides from the Clean Water Act
*Cuts spending for rural access to broadband and renewable energy
*Preempts state and local food protection laws and weakens state pesticide laws
* Allows of oil and gas drilling on agricultural conservation lands
*Weakens protections of endangered species from logging
Call your representative and let them know that this bill is bad news and you expect them to vote against it.
3. Help Get Voters to The Polls
From Countable- Voter turnout for the 2016 presidential election hit all time highs...at 58 percent. Which means tens of millions of eligible voters didn’t vote.
Who doesn’t vote and why? A new survey conducted by Suffolk University and USA Today, which polled citizens across all regions of the country, has some answers.
Who doesn’t vote? Age-wise, the respondents were pretty evenly split, but folks from 18 - 34 were the highest, at 29 percent. Caucasians were also significantly less likely to vote, at nearly 60 percent.
56 percent said they think the country is on the “wrong track”. The economy and political gridlock were listed as the biggest problems facing the country by respondents.
For those not registered to vote, the primary reasons for not voting were apathy and believing that voting doesn’t make a difference. For those registered, the primary reasons for not voting were lack of information on candidates and issues, and believing that voting doesn’t make a difference. Though for those registered, the highest percentage of respondents said they will vote in the 2018 midterms.
30 percent of respondents said a third party is necessary to properly represent Americans’ political views, and over 36 percent described themselves as politically moderate.
The vast majority of respondents (83-86 percent), both liberals and conservatives, said that if they knew their vote could help swing an election they would vote.
Want to change the trajectory of our government? Get voters to the polls. Extreme voter suppression laws that disproportionately impact people based on their race or ethnicity, gender, age, or income have started popping up all over the country. If we don’t fight back, more and more Americans will become disenfranchised. Check out all the new resources to help all Americans vote.
*Let Amercian Vote: https://www.letamericavote.org/
*Cap, Gown, Vote!
Cap, Gown, Vote! is an initiative aimed at increasing voter registration among high school students. https://capgownvote.org/about
*Spread the Vote
Helping citizens get the identification they need to be eligible to vote. https://www.spreadthevote.org/about-us/
Check out this page from CD2Action with link to organizations that help register voters. https://cd2action.com/1533-2/
*Volunteer for a Minnesota Campaign*
The best way to change the trajectory of this administration is to elect public servants who want to work for the good of their constituents. The most important thing you can do right now is support Minnesota’s candidates. Are you well represented in your district? Adopt another district. November 2018 is a huge election for Minnesota. All hands are needed on deck.
Check out these candidates and make plans to help.
Congressional District 2
https://cd2action.com/minnesota-house/
https://docs.google.com/…/1Uqe_MoEAkideRALrCol62N…/htmlview…
*Write Postcards to Voters*
Hey all your introverts, you can be an armchair activist! Help encourage voters to get to the polls by sending postcards.
Sign up to volunteer here: https://postcardstovoters.org/volunteer/
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/
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/
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