March For Our Lives 2018

That and more on this episode of  The Al Franken Podcast.

David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, has reason to be cynical and yet he’s not.

In the podcast today he explains some of the lesser known details of his time as a vice-chair at the DNC. But that’s just a small part of the conversation. The rest is much more interesting.

Al Franken took the time to open the interview with the actual, real and meaningful accomplishments and lives saved due to David Hogg’s organizing work to enact better gun safety laws in America.  I appreciated that because it seems like everyone assumes it is impossible to do anything about America’s gun problem. But to David Hogg, saving some lives is better than doing nothing and saving no lives.

As you likely already know, he is currently working on helping progressive Democrats get elected by raising money for targeted campaigns.

Hogg’s group, Leaders We Deserve, donated $300,000 to a super PAC supporting New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Some good quotes from the podcast: “We need to be a party of fighters not folders.”

NoKings protests are really important.

Health care is a top voting issue and also the issue on which Dems have the most trust among voters.

And yes, he praised Chuck Schumer for his recent video. I posted it below the podcast.

Check out LeadersWeDeserve.com

Happy Monday, all!

Hope to see you this Saturday at #NOKINGS!  Find your local event here.

And here’s Chuck Schumer’s speech that is earning him praise among the “do something!” crowd.