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  • Pancakes and Principles

    Pancakes and Principles

    On March 1st, I attended the Mayor’s Pancake Breakfast at VFW Post 2138, in Rocky Hill.  It was a fundraiser for a very worthy cause, the Blue Star Memorial Project.  That project – creating a network of memorial markers for our armed service members – was launched in 1945 to honor veterans of World War II.  It now pays tribute to all our veterans.

    As I ate my pancakes, mindful of the setting and the cause, I reflected sadly about an incident from just the day before.  That incident was the spectacle of our President and Vice President publicly berating the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

    President Zelenskyy is a profile in courage who embodies the very ideals that America’s fallen World War II veterans died for:  protecting democracy and freedom from the forces of tyranny and oppression.  The current Administration’s philosophy of “might makes right” desecrates those values and mocks the sacrifices of America’s service members – those who came home and those who didn’t.

    Meanwhile, the Administration is applying a sledgehammer to the Department of Veterans Affairs. This will harm not only the veterans who rely upon the Department’s services – it will also put many veterans who work for the Department out of work.

    The President loves to say that he “loves our veterans.”  Coming from him, the words could hardly be emptier.

  • Three ways to fight back in March

    Three ways to fight back in March

    Trump and national Republicans are taking a hammer to our institutions – Medicaid, USAID, and the FBI, just to name a few. Many of us are feeling restless. What can we do to protect ourselves, our community, and our democracy?

    Change will come when we take action. Below are 3 tools highlighted by CTDems to communicate, organize, and support candidates.

    Please share this article with anyone who may find it useful.

    Expose the harm Medicaid cuts would have on Connecticut residents 

    A graphic showing medicaid recipients in Connecticut by District. In the west, a dark blue district shows 210,000 people who are enrolled in Medicaid
    Medicaid Enrollment in Connecticut
    Source: the CTDems Medicaid Reliance by Congressional District Dashboard

    CTDems have put developed a Medicaid Reliance Dashboard to show where Republican proposed cuts to Medicaid will hurt people, if they aren’t stopped.

    Click HERE to see the Dashboard. (CTDems will soon offer a dashboard for SNAP benefits as well.)

    Learn to Organize

    If you’re itching to take action, you don’t have to start from scratch. CTDems maintains an online guide with how to mobilize within local Democratic parties, activist groups, and interest groups. It also provides links to get trained on everything from running for office to organizing protests.

    Click HERE to read the CTDems Activist Guide.

    Campaign Nationally

    We have an opportunity to make a difference in several critical elections.

    Special Elections

    Florida Special Elections candidates Gay Valimont (left) and Josh Weil

    Help mobilize voters in Florida for the HD1 and HD6 special elections on April 1st. The Dem candidates are Gay Valimont and Josh Weil. They organize with Mobilize.us , which is another fantastic tool to discover volunteer opportunities.

    On April 1, there will be a special election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The winning side will hold a four-to-three majority on the state high court. The court faces decisions on abortion, voting access, the state’s collective bargaining laws, and its congressional maps.

    Gubernatorial races

    There are two Gubernatorial races this November, one in New Jersey and one in Virginia. We have a real shot at winning BOTH and sending a clear message to the White House that voters are unhappy and unsupportive of the GOP agenda.

    Support Abigail Spanberger for Virginia HERE and Mikie Sherrill for New Jersey HERE.

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    As your local democrats, we will continue to share Events and Actions you can take to make a difference nationally, at the state level, and right here at home in Rocky Hill.

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    We will get through this together. 

    TJ