2020: My pledge to support WHOEVER wins the nomination

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Friday April 26, 2019 · 4:30 PM PDT

2019/04/26 · 16:30

I haven’t been around much which is how I deal with the Democratic Destruction Derby during the presidential primary.

Truthfully, even our WORSE candidate is going to be 1,000 times better then tRump and the harm he has done our nation and the world.

Our courts are being packed with young, unqualified, white male conservatives who will serve for decades. Our SCOTUS has been handed to the conservatives who with a ONE vote majority will decide cases that we will have to live with for decades. Our world is melting and little is being done by this administration to address climate change. Our economy is only working for those at the very top, we have not seen anything this bad since the Gilded Age or the Great Depression. And on and on. LGBTQ rights are attacked everyday, the rights of women, minorities all under attack.

This administration is locking children in cages. In our name.

This administration will actively work to take away health care if they get four more years.

I like a robust debate on candidates, what concerns me is that we sometimes go so hard on our candidates that we do the work of the GOP and Russian Trolls. They read DailyKos, they look for the issues that are dividing us, and they are saving them for the general when they will use it as they did against Hillary, we all saw how that was used. It is used to depress turnout, to make people feel as if there isn’t a “real” choice because both candidates are the same. And it worked. And it will work again.

But it can’t work if we don’t allow ourselves to be divided at the end. It can’t work if we remember that what ever issues we raise now about one of our candidates won’t stop us from getting them elected. Again, even our WORSE candidate will do almost ALL of what we believe in, they will protect health care, the environment, LGBTQ, our foreign policy and so much more. We disagreed with Obama on issues (I know I did) but realize what we are missing with him gone.

We need every single person to turn out in 2020, we need to energize people, to get them excited about all of our candidates, because if we don’t we will see four more of tRump in 2020.

I will vote for Bernie if he is the candidate, I will GOTV, will do all I can to help him win.

I will vote for Kamala if she is the candidate, I will GOTV, will do all I can to help her win.

I will vote for Cory he is the candidate, I will GOTV, will do all I can to help him win.

I will vote for Pete if he is the candidate, I will GOTV, will do all I can to help him win.

I will vote for Elizabeth if she is the candidate, I will GOTV, will do all I can to help her win.

I will vote for Joe if he is the candidate, I will GOTV, will do all I can to help him win.

I will vote for OUR DEMOCRATIC Candidate and will do all I can to help them win.

I hope that we can all show energy and commitment to whoever ends up being our nominee. No one person is perfect (not even me, go figure), and yes, ALL of our candidates have flaws of some sort. But none of them are as evil, deranged, corrupted, narcissistic or delusional as tRump.

Disclaimer: I have donated to Harris, Biden, Warren and Beto.

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Please help save San Jose Hope Village

SanJoseLady

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Monday September 10, 2018 · 9:27 PM PDT

2018/09/10 · 21:27

Please help us to save our alternative encampment in San Jose called “Hope Village.”

San Jose is experiencing horrific conditions for those who are unhoused. We spend millions of dollars a year to “sweep” people from one location only to find that those people have moved to a new location which needs to be “swept.”

Having grown tired of dealing with this never ending circle of nothing being done to help people, I joined with a group of people who formed an organization called “San Jose Hope Village” (SJHV.org). These are truly amazing people who are trying to help so many in San Jose.

We were determined to erect a homeless encampment that was clean, neat, safe, have access to toilets, to electricity (via solar power) and other basic services like a mobile shower unit.

San Jose Hope Village offered a break from the perpetual sweeps. The privately funded encampment—a fenced-in enclave of tents, a portable toilet and sanitation stations—sprang up Saturday on an empty parking lot across from an abandoned traffic court at Ruff Drive and Hedding Street. But not two mornings passed before the authorities gave Charlie and six other homeless campers at the site a 72-hour notice to pack up and leave.

This time, however, Charlie won’t go quietly. That’s because Hope Village is as much a political statement as a practical response to the city’s homelessness crisis.

“We knew we didn’t have permission to be here,” says Peter Miron-Conk, the 72-year-old co-founder of Casa de Clara Catholic Worker and one of a few-dozen volunteers who spent the past eight months planning Hope Village. “But we also believe that the current conditions of the homeless here are untenable and inhumane. This is a reasonable alternative that should be accepted by the city, the county and the state.”

On Saturday we moved into a location in San Jose that is state property, an abandoned parking lot near the airport, not used for anything, not near any housing, but near services, public transportation and stores. You can see for yourself on a map, search for “Ruff and Hedding” San Jose, we are in the small strip of parking lot next to the large lot.

This is a privately funded encampment, we bought tents, made platforms, bought a large canopy tent for the common area, provided a toilet, fencing, tables, chairs, individual tents and more. We do have the support of local political officials and organizations, but we need more help.

After two days we were visited by the manager of the EDD building (which owns the parking lot we are on), she informed us we were on “her land,” and then she called the CHP (state police) who came over to our village and told us we have 72 hours to leave.

Tomorrow we are holding a rally/press conference at 5 pm at our location: 1010 Ruff Drive, San Jose.

We are asking the state to allow us to stay until someone can find us a spot that will allow us to relocate. The intent is to house people until they obtain permanent housing, and while tents are not idea people are living in them right now without any of the services we are offering.

You can help by calling the San Jose Council and asking them to support our village, you can call the Governor’s office and request that they let us stay on land owned buy us, the taxpayers, until something better can be found to relocate. And you can help by showing up tomorrow at our rally.

You can also share our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/...

Contact information:

San Jose City Council

Governor of California

Thank you for helping us to help those who most need our help right now.

Bay Area: Take Action Friday 6/22 in Richmond, CA (List your local action/date here)

SanJoseLady

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Tuesday June 19, 2018 · 11:26 AM PDT

2018/06/19 · 11:26

There are many actions being planned to fight this horrid policy of 45, I will be heading over to Richmond, CA on Friday, 12 — 1 pm, to protest in front of the local ICE Detention Center.

The Detention Center is located at 5555 Giant Hwy, Richmond, CA.

You can RSVP on Facebook: www.facebook.com/...

This protest/action is being organized with the local Indivisible group and we are trying to spread the word.

If you know of other actions/events/protests in your community please list them in the comments and I will try to add them to the diary (if you have a link please post that as it will be easier to list via links).

There is a website that you can use to find the ICE Detention Center closest to you:

www.ice.gov/...

We cannot sit back and let this continue (mind you we are also going to need to be out protecting our healthcare as well given the GOP is trying to take it away via a new bill).

Instead of all of this burning us out let us become fueled up to fight with everything we have.

David beat Goliath in San Jose on Tuesday

SanJoseLady

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Thursday June 07, 2018 · 4:53 PM PDT

2018/06/07 · 16:53

Late last year a developer (Ponderosa Homes) backed by Carl Berg (a billionaire) decided to gather signatures for a measure that would change our general plan and devastate open space in San Jose. The petition seeking signatures to put the measure on the ballot was successful due to the signature gatherers telling people that the petition was for a measure that would build affordable housing for Seniors and Veterans.

In fact the measure sought to completely rewrite our 2040 General Plan which protected open space, required developers to build for density, and looks to the future of how we need to be smart about where we build our housing/employment areas. The Measure was over 300 pages long.

As a means to try to undo the damage that would be done if this measure passed our local city council put a competing measure on the ballot, Measure C (it passed with 100 percent support from the city council, something that rarely happens here).

Measure B was backed, literally, by billionaires. Every day voters in San Jose were receiving mailers supporting Measure B as a way to provide affordable housing for seniors and veterans, as responsible and environmentally good development (in fact none of these things were true). What was left out of the mail was that this measure would change our entire general plan.

Every day there were ads on TV against measure C, ads that ran at least three or four times an hour.

Not one organization backed Measure B, as a matter of fact both the local Democratic and Republican parties opposed the measure. AARP opposed the measure, almost every elected official either opposed the measure or did not weigh in. There were only two electeds who supported this measure, one was a former city council member, and the other person was a former school trustee.

The No on B group was outspent 10 to 1. We had literally NO money when all the mail started pouring in, the Yes on B group had millions of dollars that they were spending on staff, polling, mail and TV.

We had local volunteers who knocked on doors, made calls and became active speakers at community meetings in debates with the Yes on B people.

The No on B campaign did manage to send out about 4 or 5 pieces of mail, but no TV ads. And yet….as time went on, as we reached out to the community and more and more people and organizations stood up to denounce this horrific measure support in the community started to tank.

Our local paper published a scathing opinion piece on the measure, our mayor actively campaigned against the measure (more then he campaigned for his own re election), and more and more people from the community knocked on doors, made calls and worked hard to spread the word about this deceptive measure.

On Tuesday we learned that our hard work beat back the billionaire!!!! As of today the vote is:

NO: 70,311 (57.51%)

Yes: 51,957 (42.49%)

And Measure C passed as well (by even bigger margins).

As we move on to November don’t ever think that money will always win, as you can see money lost big time here in San Jose, CA. People power CAN win elections, and if we join together and work hard we can, and will, do great things in November.

Kelly lied, and now there is proof.

SanJoseLady

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Friday October 20, 2017 · 9:23 AM PDT

2017/10/20 · 09:23

No words needed, just read and watch. What Kelly said yesterday was a complete lie, and now he is as exposed as Trump. Am beyond disgusted right now.

www.sun-sentinel.com/...

Trump cutting off subsidy for Obamacare

SanJoseLady

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Thursday October 12, 2017 · 6:42 PM PDT

2017/10/12 · 18:42

Am sick to my stomach, how can he do this?

www.politico.com/…

President Donald Trump plans to cut off critical subsidy payments to insurers selling Obamacare coverage, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The decision to end the payments, worth an estimated $7 billion this year, marks Trump's most aggressive move yet to dismantle Obamacare after months of failed GOP repeal efforts on Capitol Hill. The move is likely to draw lawsuits and may put pressure on Congress to appropriate funding for the subsidies, which help insurers reduce out-of-pocket costs for low-income Obamacare customers.

Am just disgusted and upset right now (health care for daughter is now threatened)

#DREAMERS FIRST

SanJoseLady

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Sunday September 03, 2017 · 8:06 PM PDT

2017/09/03 · 20:06

We need to send a message to our Dems in Congress (house and Senate) that NO moving forward on ANY relief for Harvey, no debt relief, no tax legislation, nada, until DREAMERS are protected.

DREAMERS legislation MUST be a priority, and can be if our Dems work together and fight whatever that idiot in the WH is going to propose.

Call, text, and fight. Ending this program is cruel, it is inhuman, it stands against EVERYTHING we stand for as a nation.

Call. Text. Make sure our Dems KNOW that we want DREAMERS to be put at the top. Relief for Harvey can be done quickly right after, but DREAMERS need to be protected as their lives will be impacted even more so then those who have gone through Harvey.

Loss of job, loss of family, loss of education, being deported to a country they do not know, their lives destroyed? NO. Their is no “rebuilding” for Dreamers if they are deported.

Dreamers REGISTERED with the government with the understanding that they would be able to continue to live here and find a way to citizenship. To now use those registrations to deport Dreamers is the worst of the worst.

We can, we MUST fight to protect DREAMERS.

Silicon Valley Democratic Unity Picnic July 9th

SanJoseLady

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Monday June 26, 2017 · 8:04 AM PDT

2017/06/26 · 08:04

Good morning! Just want to spread the word about our local Democratic Party Unity Picnic, one of the best Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) Democratic events of the year! July 9th, 10 am to 3 pm, Emma Prush Farm in East San Jose.

No charge, just show up and meet other Dems in the area, find out how to get involved, what we are doing and learn how we are resisting the Dictator in DC.

Here is a link with more details: www.sccdp.org/…

Hope to see you there!

I stand with Pelosi, and let me tell you why

SanJoseLady

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Thursday June 22, 2017 · 5:25 PM PDT

2017/06/22 · 17:25

Nancy Pelosi is being made into a demon, someone who has some evil agenda that will ruin our nation. And this is coming not just from the right, but from the left of all places. And it has been going on all day today, I have had enough.

Is Pelosi perfect? No, but without her we would not have Obamacare, which today we are fighting to keep.

People are attacking her for what the RIGHT has defined her as: someone out of touch, an “elitist” and all I can do is shake my head because the GOP, Trump, is about as elite as you could get, out of touch, but in power.

Just to be fair, she is being attacked as Clinton was attacked, for some reason no one seems to think anyone else in the position of power in the party is not doing their job, just Pelosi. Guess it is just easier to attack a woman.

Somehow Pelosi’s values are out of step with America. But you know what? Those “values” are never discussed, just mentioned in a general sense. So what are Pelosi’s values? Fair wages for Americans, clean water/air, better education for all, fighting climate change, regulating banks, regulating polluting corporations, fighting for equality for ALL, ensuring people are able to vote, and the list goes on. These things are evil? These things are not what a majority of Americans want?

So, while she is imperfect (as am I), she has been a strong supporter of our Democratic values, of American values. When people attack her values, they are attacking our Democratic values, those within the party that want to see her gone are not progressive, and they could never have gotten Obamacare passed.

(Note I realize that she has compromised on issues, however I also realize that she has had to deal with a Democratic Party that is not in lock step, no one in her position would be able to get consensus without compromise)

I live in California, was born and raised in SF. My “values” are family values, the values that support equality, that support the things that make our nation better, and having grown up in SF I can tell you these values are not “out of step” with the rest of the nation. We even have bigots in SF, go figure.

(And yes, our messaging sucks right now)

Yes, we need to groom younger people to step us as well, lord knows we need to do a better job of helping women get elected and move up the leadership ladder. (Even still we have done a much better job then the GOP in getting women elected)

Yet through it all I will proudly say that I stand with the FIRST WOMAN TO EVER BE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. Read more about her here: www.democraticleader.gov/…

Wow….thank you for the Rec’s...went away to dinner and just saw this. We have much to be proud of, our values and that we want to win to provide people with the quality of life they deserve. Thanks everyone : )

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Lawrence OUT at MSNBC

SanJoseLady

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Tuesday May 16, 2017 · 1:12 PM PDT

2017/05/16 · 13:12

Just one more assault to our democracy:

www.showbiz411.com/…

His offense? Being too critical of Trump.

Let that sink in.

"A nation can survive its fools"

SanJoseLady

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Friday May 12, 2017 · 10:19 AM PDT

2017/05/12 · 10:19

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

Crying while they celebrate

SanJoseLady

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Thursday May 04, 2017 · 11:44 AM PDT

2017/05/04 · 11:44

Most of us know what it was like before Obamacare, we remember the pain, the suffering, the lack of health care. We saw friends and family members suffer, we saw our friends and family members go bankrupt trying to get medical care. We saw some of our loved ones die a death that could have been prevented if health care had been available to them.

I remember my Mom calling me in tears because she could not afford her prescription. I remember my daughter not being covered due to a pre existing condition, and her over $600 a month prescription we had to put on our credit card.

Now we are back to those days, and the GOP is gleefully celebrating at the White House and then will go back to the House for their beer bash. Think about that. A political win that HARMS TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, AND THEY CELEBRATE.

I will shed my tears today, but tomorrow I will fight, and fight with all I have, to remove those who supported this draconian bill.

All of the CA GOP Reps voted for this bill. ALL of them . I will go after Jeff Denham as he is the closest to me, find the Rep closes to you and get out there and fight like hell.

Tens of MILLIONS of us are going to see pain like never before, and the only way to stop this is to fight back with everything we have.

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