Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it – Muhammad Ali
This is not a campaign to elect an individual, it’s about building a movement that continues after election that fights for a world-class (yes, I said, world-class!) education for ALL students. Because Our Kids Are Worth It!
We are going to win this election because our exceptional army of volunteers. To ensure the safety of our volunteers and community, we will not be canvassing as part of our campaign, which makes phone banking even more critical. I know many volunteers are stuck at home while phone banking. With a typical phone bank hosted in my house, we don’t have the benefit of feeling the sense of community, encouraging each other and commiserating with each other when get a strong supporter or a jerk. I will do my best to come close to the feeling of our common cause by writing in this blog.
I want to start by introducing every one to each other….
It is happening! Because of YOU, ordinary people taking time out of their busy schedules to fight for people they don’t know in the spirit of #NotMeUs. We’re in this TOGETHER. Thank you to my Wednesday Phonebank Warriors pictured below: Leslie, Jack, Robert, Linda, Phil, Jillian, Katie, Kaveh, Sean, Lydia, Chris, and Nathan. (I also host a special twilight canvassing on Sunday 5:30-8pm. No experience needed. We go in pairs. Join Us!)
Thank you to the Mock Iowa Caucus goers on Feb 3, 2020: Jacque, Todd, Diana, Alex, Denis, Aida, Jordan, Mindy, Mojgan, Donna, Jack, Una, Phil, Blake, Hector, Juan, Ana, Kaveh, Carol, Bonnie (and others, sorry I don’t know their names.) Out of 96 caucus goers, 28 voted for Bernie (29% !!), putting him at #1 in the 1st round. Ultimately, Amy Klobuchar won because most of Pete’s supporters went to her in the 2nd round.
GOOD NEWS!! The REAL Iowa Caucus, results still coming in. Looks like Bernie will be taking 1st or 2nd place in Iowa. GO IOWA! I think we can put the media’s electability argument to bed – good night!
We’re kicking off the first week of 2020 with an army of activists making calls and knocking on doors for Bernie to win CA on March 3, 2020. Bernie is the strongest candidate to beat Trump, as filmmaker Michael Moore, makes the case that the Democratic Party’s swing voters are not Republicans but nonvoters.
On Wed, Kirsten, Christie, Roshan, Anthony, and Denis call Bernie volunteers to a canvass-rally, featuring public banking activist Trinity Tran. Thanks to them and other phonebankers throughout LA, the event was a great success (check it out).
Thank you to the new and experienced volunteers who came today to Pasadena from all over Los Angeles to canvass for Bernie. Our field organizer, Melissa Michelson provided training and material support: flyers, bumperstickers, stickers, buttons, and voter registration forms. Pictured below (Hana, Daniel, Sam, Carol, Katie, Blake, Matthew, Terry, Tina, Vishesh – not picture: Sameer). Thank you to phonebankers: Terry, Linda and Jeremy.
COMING UP… Brunch Barnstorm-Canvass on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 (10am – 1pm) at my house 3576 Milton St, Pasadena. RSVP here. Featured speaker to be announced soon.
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We are Teachers.
Activists. Community Organizers. Scientists.
Send Us To The California Democratic Convention
★ Getting Money Out Of Politics★ Medicare For All ★ Green New Deal ★ Affordable Housing & Rent Control ★ Tuition-Free College/Lower Student Debt★ Fully Funding Public Schools★ Immigration Reform★ Criminal Justice Reform★ Gun Violence Reform★ Raising Federal Minimum Wage ★ Protect Voter Rights★ No More Wars
Mike Boos talks with community member.
“I met Robert Nelson when we were Delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 2016. Robert, a DNC veteran, served in 1988 where he addressed the entire convention on ‘No First Use’ anti-nuclear weapons policy. He worked on Governor Jerry Brown’s campaign and he has never stopped. He is a tireless worker for the rights of all.” – Zenaida Huerta, Claremont McKenna College ‘20; VP, Claremont College Democrats; delegate to California Democratic Convention, 57th State Assembly District; Delegate to the DNC, 2016
“I am so impressed with the dedication of Democrats for Justice in supporting public education. Send these teachers and professors to the Democratic Convention to remind our elected officials that since public education is 50% of our state budget, it is our state’s highest priority.” – Cynthia Liu, K-12 News Network
“Progressive Asian Network for Action endorses Democrats for Justice. They are a TRULY progressive slate – grassroots activists that have been walking the walk of progressive values and fighting in the trenches to win the progressive agenda.” – Progressive Asian Network for Action
“Tina Fredericks walks the walk. Tina and I have knocked on doors together and I’m in awe of her energy and devotion to grassroots democracy. Please vote for her as she is the change we need to see in our party.” – Cullen Tiernan, President CADEM Veterans Caucus
“Following the success of other local leaders, we decided to start Sunrise LA, which quickly grew to become one of the largest Sunrise Hubs in the nation. For now, I can see no better method to save the world from climate change than for Congress to support the Green New Deal.” – Sam Berndt, founding member of Sunrise LA, running on our Democrats for Justice slate.
“I’m a second generation Chinese-American. My mother attended UC Berkeley tuition-free under Clark Kerr’s Master Plan for California Colleges. California can make this happen for my two girls and generations to come.” – Tina Fredericks, President of Democrats of Pasadena Foothills, running on our Democrats for Justice slate.
VOTE FOR 14DEMOCRATS FOR JUSTICE candidates on the DELEGATE BALLOT
1. Tina Fredericks
2. Una Lee Jost
3. Maro Kakoussian
4. Julie McKune
5. Pamela Casey Nagler
6. Mindy Pfeiffer
7. Marguerite “Peggy” Renner
1. Sam Berndt
2. Mike Boos
3. Steven Gibson
4. Rick Jordan
5. Robert M. Nelson
6. Jason Schadewald
7. Jordan Vannini
VOTE For ROBERT M. NELSON on BOTH BALLOTS: DELEGATE BALLOT and EBOARD REP BALLOT
TO VOTE:
You must live in Assembly District 41. Assembly District 41 includes: South Pasadena, Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia, San Dimas, La Verne, Claremont, Upland, San Antonio Heights, and 12.5% of Rancho Cucamonga. Not registered Democrat? You can register or change your registration online at LAVote or onsite at the Union Hall Election site the day of the election.
Una Lee Jost, slate member of Democrats for Justice, organized Lawyer Moms of America to go to State Congressman Judy Chu’s office to stand up for families separated at the border.
Children of Lawyer Moms of America present letter to Congressman Judy Chu’s office to urge Chu to continue to stand up for families separated at the border.
VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS FOR JUSTICE
SUN JAN 27, 2019 (10AM – 1PM)
705 W. Arrow Highway, Claremont South of the Packing House and KGI
TONIGHT!
5 Claremont College Democratic Club hosts
Democrats for Justice
Scripps College
7 – 9 pm @ Vita Nova Lecture Hall
Come and meet the candidates and discuss the issues
First, what is Swing Left? Swing Left is the effort to win Democratic seats in districts where the winner of the last House of Representatives election was determined by a thin margin. 5 of those districts are in southern California. You can read more about it at Swing SoCal Left. Democrats need to gain 24 seats to win the majority of the House, 20% of those seats are within our reach.
Want to help Take Back the House but don’t want to travel to a swing district? Check out this new way to swing left: writing postcards! After a lively discussion on Net Neutrality at an Indivisible Arroyo Seco meeting, we all sat around the dinner table writing postcards to voters in our closest swing district for Democratic candidate Katie Hill in CD 25 (Santa Clarita). There’s a postcard script to copy from but after a few times, you get creative. I shortened some of my sentences, wrote in a different font, and drew little icons. It felt a bit like kindergarten class, almost therapeutic. When do you ever get the opportunity to just sit around the table doodling for a good cause among friends? It was a nice break from the daily bad news. So refreshing just to focus on something concrete and measurable, yet creative and totally original. A human being will know another human being wrote that postcard especially for them. After 20 minutes a few of us started leaving. I lingered. I go to a lot of meetings but I liked that this part of the meeting gave back to me while I was giving back to the world. This is a winning campaign idea. I know, phone calls and door knocking are more effective ways to get votes. But we need EVERYONE in on this. There’s too much at stake. I bet some of those postcard writers will be open to making phone calls. And some phone callers may be open to knocking on doors. We’re building the Blue Tsunami from Pasadena one postcard at a time.
Thank you to the WONDERFUL volunteers who carved out time from their busy schedules. Most of us work full-time and work on multiple campaigns. Good Job Team Sandra!
Altadena resident and writer, Steven Gibson and Alhambra resident/Dilbeck agent Robert Bilheimer joins Bonnie’s phonebank in La Cañada on Wednesdays.
Paul Padilla makes calls for Sandra from his home in San GabrielBryan Witt, candidate for Congress makes time to support Sandra
Azusa resident joins my phonebank in Pasadena. Finished calling his tall stack of call sheets. Union leader Paul Krehbiel makes calls for Sandra from his Alhambra home.
Thank you to the volunteers who have continued to make calls for Sandra: Bryan Witt, Robert Bilheimer, and Paul Krehbiel. And to the AMAZING volunteers who came to my house on a rainy Saturday morning: Altadena resident and fiction writer Steven Gibson and Pasadena residents Darrell Aranda and Lesli Lytle. Together we reached out to 266 voters!
Thank you also to new volunteers: Pierce College Political Science Associate Professor and PUSD parent, Denise Robb who made phone calls on her own with her busy schedule and to my 7 year old who was not deterred when the first voter she called hung up on her. The next one was a wonderful patient lady who said “Yes. I’ll vote for Sandra.” I think from that point on she was hooked. Making a difference one voter at a time.
Thank you to mi amigo San Gabriel resident and uber activist, Paul Padilla. He drove to my house in the middle of the night to pick up a stack of call lists. This is what I love about my community, we understand that no matter which city you’re from, we’re in this together.
One month until the June 5 election…BIG THANKS to the AMAZING volunteers who made calls: Robert Bilheimer and Denis Recendez for Sandra Chen Lau for PCC Board of Trustees; and Jason Schadewald for Delaine Eastin for Governor .
THANK YOU to Democratic Socialists of America DSA-LA members, Kate Leitch and Paul Krehbiel, and IATSE union member and Altadena resident, Darrell Aranda stepped up to take multiple contact lists to make calls for Sandra.
Phonebank veteran and Alhambra-resident Robert Bilheimer, who I met from the Bernie campaign, makes calls for Sandra Chen Lau for PCC Board of Trustees finds time during his open house.
Altadena resident and fellow Democratic Party delegate, Jason Schadewald makes calls for Delaine Eastin for Governor and wins over a Berkeley voter.
Denis “the Rock” Recendez arrives first at my phone bank, plowing through his call list for 3 hours.
THANK YOU to the AWESOME volunteers who made calls for Sandra this week.
Julie McKune of Altadena, a former PUSD elementary school teacher, who understands the importance of quality public education, made 70 calls in 2 hours on Sunday.
Azusa-resident and single payer champion, Denis Recendez made a special trip out to my house to pick up a phone list and made calls from his home on a weekday!!
Pasadenan and Congressional candidate Bryan Witt, made calls for Sandra on his day off. He was the first person to say yes to making phone calls to elect Sandra.
VOTE FOR 14 DEMOCRATS FOR JUSTICE candidates on the DELEGATE BALLOT
lso to new volunteers: Pierce College Political Science Associate Professor and PUSD parent, Denise Robb who made phone calls on her own with her busy schedule and to my 7 year old who was not deterred when the first voter she called hung up on her. The next one was a wonderful patient lady who said “Yes. I’ll vote for Sandra.” I think from that point on she was hooked. Making a difference one voter at a time.
Thank you to mi amigo San Gabriel resident and uber activist, Paul Padilla. He drove to my house in the middle of the night to pick up a stack of call lists. This is what I love about my community, we understand that no matter which city you’re from, we’re in this together.
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