When I was in my 20's powerful people in the coal and natural gas industry wanted to strip and frack on our pristine watershed. Our town leaned Republican but I organized the townspeople, got our local newspapers involved. At the end only one newspaper would cover the water protection group meetings we had formed. I was the spokesperson for our first protest at our local council meeting. The meeting had the largest group of people to ever attend a council meeting. Our newly formed group got the fish commission involved to testify at hearings. I even went to the courthouse and searched who owned the gas rights that were going to be fracked. What I found out would take too long to explain. The powerful people knew I was searching at the court house and I got death threats.
We were outmanned and the law was on the other side, but when all was said and done they stripped coal and fracked for gas but we put so many restrictions on them that our watershed was protected.
Our county chairlady was from my home town, she met with me and convinced me to run for borough council. I ran and served 2 terms until my work took me out of town. Even though the town was Republican they voted for someone who wanted to protect their interests against powerful people.
Over the years I had many meetings at the county chairlady's house, one would say we were violating the Sunshine Act, oops. Democrats gained control of council and we worked together for the betterment of everyone in our town, including Republicans.
The Democratic voters are ready to fight, the Democratic voters are ahead of Congressional Democrats in the strategy needed to defeat fascism. The strategy needs to be to use all of the weapons in our arsenal. The strategy needed to be not to give Krasnov his CR back in March without getting protections for our social safety net first.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries could call a press conference and publicly encourage every Democratically controlled state to start working on gerrymandering now.
Time Matters.
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