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May 15, 2018 12 tweets 2 min read Read on X
People who can’t caucus:
Hourly workers
Introvert
Autistic
Elderly
Chronic pain
Pregnant
Parents of young children
Unreliable transportation
Can’t stand or sit for long periods
Boss at caucus
Abusive Husband at caucus
Caucuses favor able bodied extroverts with money and time
Unity commission members pushed caucus expansion to disenfranchise certain demographics.
Caucuses should end not expand.
I can’t count the number of woman on NH phones and doors who made it very clear they could not discuss their preference for Hillary in front of the husband. So routine the occurrence.
People in small towns who own businesses can’t caucus.
People in small towns who don’t want their neighbors knowing their business can’t caucus.
It’s hard enough for us organizers to get people out to just cast a vote in a primary. Caucuses are ridiculous.
People who observe the sabbath on Saturday can’t caucus.
First time voters who are intimidated by the process and unsure if “they know enough” won’t caucus.
Many disabled folks can’t caucus.
Some can!
Don’t assume!
But why should we? #CripTheVote
Caucuses are darwinian not democratic.
#DemocratsforDemocrats
#gaytwitter
ESOL voters can’t or won’t caucus.
Caucuses are for people who have no one to offend or make uncomfortable with their public political views.
Caucuses don’t work for:
Nurses
Teachers
Lawyers
Psych professionals
School Principals
Business owners
Physicians
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Sep 23, 2018
I’m on the 🚂 to philly heading to the sentencing of the most infamous rapist of all time Bill #Cosby.

We are hoping to see this criminal walk out in shackles for his 45year+ depraved crime spree of drugging and raping over 60 women.

Watch this space for pics and updates!
#SentenceCosby30years

Graphics by @FrancescaRizzo Part of a 4 year digital campaign to raise awareness of the names of the human victims of #Cosby’s 45 year drug and rape crime spree.
No one knows all of these survivors’ names.

They aren’t famous, they didn’t “cash in”
By being raped.

#KavanaughHearings
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Sep 18, 2018
Differences between #AnitaHill and #CavanaghHearings.

‘91 Almost ALL white dude staffers behind a ALL STRAIGHT WHITE MALE SENATORS on judiciary committee.

‘18 Half/same old gang of straight white male rape enabler @GOPs vs @Dem’s diversity , and a stfu old @Vp.

#Kavanagh
‘99 Thurmond, 1948 “States rights” party white supremacist nominee for president, 51 years later he’s grabbing my breast.

‘18 Orrin Hatch, Still So 😡 Mormon chicks don’t blow and black Women don’t sit still for berating on CSPAN.

#AnitaHill #Kavanaugh
Youngs need to be told Biden got a big shiny rehab by Barack.

He was VILE to Anita Hill in front of her 80 year old BLACK country church proper one generation removed from SLAVERY parents. It was vile.
Read 11 tweets
Sep 18, 2018
.@msnbc just played Senator Strom Thurmond defending Clarence Thomas in 1991.

Senator Strom Thurmond grabbed my breast during a photo op 7 yrs later in 1998.
Rape apologists love to try to intimidate survivors. #KavanaughConfirmation
Read 5 tweets
Sep 14, 2018
Dear not alive during #AnitaHill:

Those hearings terrorized us as we sat transfixed, knowing for a fact we would not be believed

or given a fair chance to tell our stories of rape and harassment

In America or in front of the United States Senate.

#NoBiden
#metoo
#KavanaughConfirmation and his fascist Theocrat cronies Grassley and Orrin Hatch simply following the crucifixion of Anita Hill model of Trotting out dude after dude who told us that Clarence Thomas “wasn’t” a porn addicted rapist. #longDongSilver
During the Anita Hill hearings a sharp line emerged between women who had been raped and harassed

and those who hadn’t yet reconciled and named their experiences.

Women in denial called Anita a bitch.

The rest of us wore buttons

because her story was our story.
Read 12 tweets
Aug 6, 2018
Door knocking matters.

I lived in Florida when walkin’ Lawton Chiles was a representative and then governor of our state.

Chiles was famous for walking first his entire district when he ran for his house seat and then won.

Chile’s Met voters door-to-door, town to town/1
Walkin’ Lawton m@et the people where they were.

Walkin’ Lawton was sneered at for his “no chance” Democrat pro civil rights campaign and for being a “redneck”

Walkin’ Lawton just kept walking and converting red voters blue with each step.
Walkin’ Lawton got it that connecting with voters in person is the way to build a coalition.

🛑 👂 to voter concerns, hear problems repeated then seize on solutions based messages.

Often voters are experts on their one issue.

If you are a wise candidate or canvasser you 🛑 👂
Read 4 tweets
Aug 3, 2018
My Adoption advice for lesbians: Hurry up. Fascist theocrats are attempting to take away our adoption rights.
“federal legislation could be on the way. In July 2018, Republican representatives introduced a bill that would protect adoption agencies with state or federal contracts who discriminate on religious or moral grounds nationwide. “
The fight over gay adoption parallels the fight over marriage. Republicans have long fought our right to adopt and have “legitimate “ families. Marriage and adoption to them made us “normal” so they fought it with a passion. #queerpol
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