What Do You Want?
Invitation for tonight's Meet The Candidate Edition of Office Hours
What do you want? Figure it out, the clock is ticking.
Whether we like it or not, the 2024 elections have begun.
I want Maebe A Girl elected to represent California’s 30th congressional district. You should want that too.
Tonight at 7:30 pm Howie Klein, from Down With Tyranny, and I will be hosting a special Office Hours fundraiser for Maebe on Zoom. You’re all invited to meet her and join the conversation.
Listeners to my podcast know that, besides Ralph Nader, Howie Klein, founder and treasurer of the Blue America PAC, serves as my moral compass on all things political and governance. Howie is all in on Maebe, and you should be too.
Maebe is the first drag queen in American history to hold elective office. She currently serves as Treasurer and At-Large Representative for the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles.
I support Maebe because she’s strong on the issues I care deeply about like homelessness in the LGBTQ community and Medicare For All. Maebe also promises to fight for the elimination of ICE and for-profit prisons.
That’s why I support Maebe. Please check out her position papers here to find out why you should support her.
Please join her mailing list and learn how to help by donating either your time or money.
Maebe’s voice MUST echo through the halls of congress.
Please join us tonight to meet Maebe A Girl.
Click on this link to attend tonight’s event.
I promise an evening of inspiration and activism.
After Howie and Maebe leave, let’s continue the conversation by working to arrive at a list of issues YOU think the 2024 elections should be about.
Here’s my list. Tell me what you think tonight and in the comments section below.
Medicare For All
Abolishing all health insurance companies
Abolishing oil companies
Nationalizing banks after they fail and keeping them nationalized
Taxing billionaires out of existence
Abolishing ICE
Abortion rights in ALL 50 states
Guaranteeing members of our LGBTQ community are safe and encouraged to be who they are meant to be
Affordable and free housing
Free tuition at all public universities and community colleges
Slashing pentagon spending
Becoming a signatory to the International Criminal Court
Universal preschool
Affordable and free daycare
Jump starting union membership by passing the Pro Act
A REAL livable wage
Making the Democratic Party a true party of the working class by purging its leadership of anyone whose assets total more than half a million dollars.
What have I left out?
Priorities dictate action. What issues do you prioritize over others?
Tell me in the comments section down below and join me tonight for a special Meet The Candidate edition of Office Hours.
David
We have a Democratic Party unwilling to take the fight to the Supreme Court. To sit and ponder all the goodies one wants from the Democratic Party is silly and naive without addressing what the constitutional law will be. The right wing has taken the long view and is succeeding very well. We need a realistic, well conceived approach that involves the courts as well as the congress. This is not the case with people like howie.
David Carroll was on "background briefing" Ian master's podcast, yesterday. He talked about how ridiculous it was we got this story that democrats did ok and better than expected in midterms, while one can now see the exact results of that election play out in the house.
I live in ny-17, the ground zero of democratic failure. I have a letter from mondaire jones who previously held the seat, thanking me for supporting his Supreme Court reform bill that he prepared with senator markey. Pelosi "just said no" and that was the end, while biden had put forward a study group that in the end did nothing. Having gone to Biden's law school, and having met him 3 times, and given that he was chair of judiciary committee for years really just made me think ... why the heck would joe need 30 people to tell him what to do - he knows what to do better than anyone! This is absolutely the most critical topic.
Gotta be honest, howie lost credibility with me when he assured us all that sean p. maloney would win in my district. Now we have the ny republucan campaign chair in that seat - a blatant and severe disaster that isn't being recognized as much as it should.
Well, I do understand the sentiments of some who believe that the best approach is to try to "take over" the Democratic Party. But I would assert many people are very naïve about today's Democratic Party, and what the real ramifications of a 2 party system are going to continue to be. I think at this point it is just as worthy of consideration to try to find a way forward with a third-party that can bridge the gap between the working class, rural whites in the gop and those working class members of the Democratic Party who would want to join together and take the fight to the elites.
Aside from the things that followers of the show might be well aware of I did experience what happened when we had an open primary for the seat in New York 17 that Mondaire Jones won several years ago. The Democratic Party really avoided putting out any publicity. It put out almost no notices at all about the fact that there was going to be a primary. There was no information about the candidates at all other than one program on ny1 which most people don't even get here, and the Democratic Party tried very hard to push forward private-equity backed and CIA-veteran candidates like Elaine farkas who was then being dressed up and put on tv. I had a chance to meet her and she refused to even take a position on the Amazon "hq2" deal for queens, in which taxpayers would have funded billions for palantir and Amazon to upgrade ice's systems to better track and deport undocumented immigrants.
In Terms of the strategy that people are pursuing I do think that we should focus more on the state level. It was heroes like Michael genaris, at the STATE Level, who were instrumental in queens in stopping the Amazon H2 Q deal - this is state level politics which presumably doesn't sell big in media. One seemingly has to get the times union newspaper out of Albany to even have access to basic coverage about what goes on in New York State politics, the ground zero of Democratic Party failure.
Nationalize RR, municipal broadband, end privatization of the commons.