Thank you for standing with the people with your shutdown vote on Sept 30. I want to strongly urge you to hold the line, and encourage your colleagues to do the same, by refusing to vote for a funding bill unless it reverses the Trump Administration's health care cuts. This is one of the few opportunities when congressional Democrats have leverage to fight against the MAGA agenda and fight for working families.
We must stiffen our spines more, as this Administration's authoritarian abuses escalate.
Further, i believe it’s a mistake to make this fight about healthcare alone. It should also be about the corruption of this administration.
Please read Senator Chris Murphy's comments in his interview with The New Republic:
https://newrepublic.com/article/201311/transcript-chris-murphy-dark-unnerving-new-warning-trump
Some quotes from him:
-- "if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for. "
-- "[Trump thinks he can] bully Democrats into submission to signing onto a budget that would be bad for our people, a budget that would throw millions of people off their health care. My approach is the exact opposite. The more corrupt and lawlesshe gets, the stiffer my spine gets. Because at this point if I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics, which are blatantly corrupt, then it just normalizes it all, makes it become standard fare."
-- "... we are trekking the president that if you want us to sign onto a budget, it can't be a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy. I would be a sucker to age to a budget that literally funds an operation to hunt me and my allies down—to imprison us, harrass is, intimidate us. "
-- Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them:
*no more using budget to punish enemies
*no more using FCC to censor critics
*restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior
*clear ban on troops in cities
-- Senator Murphy also makes a detailed case that Trump is on the brink of meaningfully restricting the space in which the opposition can do politics, in the competitive authoritarian model of autocracies abroad. Basically making the upcoming elections meaningless. He says, "If we are not already there, we are really, really close."
Please represent me properly by becoming a Chris Murphy. And continue the shutdown until health care access is restored to what it was before the big ugly bill.
Thank you from your constituent, an active voter.
First sent on October 3 by Barbara
