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@realDonaldTrump, congratulations. It is now clear what you understood and you pulled it off. You understood that our democracy required honesty and integrity and reliance on norms to function. You understood that, but you did not care. Your success is the result of the
ability to lie and reject norms and common practices and simply not care. I have personally been affected by your lies after my daughter was murdered in the issue of gun safety. You and your side are street fighters and I respect that. You bully others. When someone pushes
back, you act like victims and cry for civility. The hypocricy is amazing. What is most amazing is how you just don't care. It is time for a functioning multi party system and it is time for those of us who love democracy to fight back. We understand your tactics. I was
hoping for your actual leadership after my daughter was murdered. That did not happen. Now, I will work to bring together Amercians who care about our democracy and our safety to vote. You are not the only street fighter around. #OrangeWaveInNovember.

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Sep 13, 2018
It appears Kavanaugh replied in writing regarding the handshake, I wish he would have said this last week when Senator Lindsey Graham asked about it. I was still there and would have been happy to have spoken with him. That said, regarding his response, not accurate.
Attached is a photo that I took from my seat to show how close I was to him all morning. I was not with protesters. Behind me were rows of other invited guests and behind the invited guests were tables for all of the press. Behind that were individual protersters escorted in
and out by police. Where I was located, no protesters could get close to. At the time of handshake, I was talking to someone else in this area. Yes, when he got up, I touched him and he turned and I extended my arm to say "Hello, my name is Fred Guttenber, father of
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Sep 11, 2018
This is a picture of my entire extended family taken August 2017 at the Freedom Tower. This morning I will be back at the Freedom Tower at 8:46am for the 17 year rememberance event. When this picture was taken, my brother Michael Guttenberg was still alive.
Unfortunately he passed away last October as a result of the cancer that resulted from his heroic service as a physician who was at the WTC when the buildings collapsed and who then spent 16 days at ground zero. This photo also includes my daughter Jaime Guttenberg
who was murdered at her Parkland school on February 14th. I lost my brother and daughter this past year to American tragedies. In one, America did take action and this building and the memorial are a sign of American greatness and how America can respond to difficult issues.
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Sep 10, 2018
As I sit here looking out my hotel window at the Statue Of Liberty, I am thinking about what it means to be American. This statue is a symbol of our freedom. This statue belongs to everyone. For those who disagree with me, and think the concept of freedom only belongs to them,
it does not. I am free to pursue the founding ideals of this country as well without fear of gun violence. I am free to defend the 2nd amendment in doing so, which I do defend. I do not mind those who disagree, but why is it that the side that disagrees with me feels they must do
so with anger, vitriol, cursing and a general lack of understanding of what this statue and our democracy and constitution mean? Go ahead and disagree, but do so without the cursing and nastiness. It may be reality if they remove the cursing and insults, there is not much to say.
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Sep 6, 2018
As I sit here for my final morning this week in DC, I want to reflect on the past couple of days. Since Jaime was murdered on February 14th, I have dedicated my life to advocacy on the cause of gun safety. Anyone who has followed me knows that I try to talk to everyone.
I go up to everyone and I introduce myself the same way which is "Hi, my name is Fred Guttenberg and I am the father of Jaime Guttenberg who was murdered in Parkland." I introduce myself that way every time intentionally so that when people do speak to me, they know up front
that it will be part of the discussion. It is my way of being honest from the start. What happened this week was quite simple. I was invited as a guest to the hearing. I was sitting 3 rows behind Kavanaugh and to his right. I was introduced. I was not one of the circus hecklers
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Aug 28, 2018
If any friends still have accounts with Wells Fargo, my advice is to switch. Based upon this article, and treatment of @nikkifried last week in her political campaign, I have decided to go public about my interactions with the @WellsFargo CEO Tim Sloan.
money.cnn.com/2018/08/27/med…
As most know, I have spent the months since Jaime's murder reaching out to businesses and banks to change their business model. For example, we did communicate with Bank Of America and as a bank they did the right thing. Back on April 11th,
I began communicating directly with CEO Tim Sloan via email. I kept my interactions private with hope that Wells would eventually do the right thing. The result of this communication was that Tim Sloan put me in touch with other executives from his team who I did speak with over
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Aug 5, 2018
I have been thinking about the school security decisions taking place and conversations that are taking place amongst parents. I am concerned by some of the nastiness between parents. We do not all need to agree, but we can be respectful and supportive of each others opinions.
I have been accused by some of not saying enough and only caring about guns. That is not true. It is correct to say that I believe firmly that if the killer could not have legally purchased his weapon, my daughter and 16 others would be alive.
As a reminder, he was not an enrolled student any longer. I also believe that if he was blocked from entering the school, his determination to kill would have forced him to do so in the parking lot as students were exiting in a mass crowd of kids as they did every day.
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