Climate The Overriding Issue 

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Dave Bradley

From the headline on msn.com Thursday:

2021 saw record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels and ocean heat, new report shows 

When you turn on the news today, after you get by the stories of our former treasonous president, there are the stories of the predicted climate calamities coming true. Mega monsoons in Pakistan, huge flooding in major cities in the US, drought in crop growing regions around the world, ice sheets melting and heat, heat, heat everywhere. 

About the worst news we could get at this time is that we humans are continuing to do the very things possible to make the situation worse. And that is exactly what the headline at MSN said: record-high greenhouse gases. From the MSN report: 

The annual State of the Climate report, published Wednesday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and led by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, also found that global sea level and ocean heat reached record highs in 2021.

“The data presented in this report are clear — we continue to see more compelling scientific evidence that climate change has global impacts and shows no sign of slowing,” NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad said in a statement. “With many communities hit with 1,000-year floods, exceptional drought and historic heat this year, it shows that the climate crisis is not a future threat but something we must address today as we work to build a Climate-Ready Nation — and world — that is resilient to climate-driven extremes.”

Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the “most significant driver of observed climate change since the mid-20th century,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, warming the climate as they build up in the atmosphere.

In 2021, the global annual average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was 414.7 parts per million (ppm) — 2.3 ppm greater than the amounts measured in 2020, according to the latest State of the Climate report. That marks the highest amount measured since 1958 — the start of the instrumental record — and in at least the last million years, based on paleoclimatic records, the report found. It was also the fifth-highest growth rate in the modern record.

Last year was the fifth- or sixth-warmest on record, depending on the dataset referenced, with the last seven years (2015-2021) the seven warmest years on record, according to the report.”

Just to bring it a little closer to home, ABC News reports on a report that an “extreme heat belt” will cover much of America’s midland in the next 30 years. This includes Iowa:

By 2053, 1,023 counties, an area home to more than 107 million Americans and covers a quarter of U.S. land, are expected to see the heat index, or the feels-like temperature, surpass 125 degrees Fahrenheit at least one day a year, according to the report, which was released Monday.

According to the First Street Foundation’s study, those high temperatures, considered extremely dangerous by the National Weather Service, are expected to affect 8 million Americans this year and increase 13 times over 30 years.

The “extreme heat belt” extends from Texas’ northern border and Louisiana north through Iowa, Indiana and Illinois, the report shows.”

If you are paying any attention at all, Democrats only (no Republican votes) passed climate action in the omnibus Inflation Reduction Act passed last month. Iowa’s Republicans in congress voted against this bill! If we are to have a future and do something for our kids, do not put Republicans in decision making jobs any more. 

There are four overriding issues this year. Republicans fail on all:

  • Climate Change
  • Democracy remaining viable in the US and maintaining the rule of law
  • Allegiance to a cult of personality in Trump 
  • Women’s reproductive right (access to abortion)

And now for a word about the kids. Remember how Republicans claim they are “pro-life.” They sure fail here. Youngsters are being traumatized by the prospects of what is to come (5 minutes):

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New Labor Report Not Kind To Iowa

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Dave Bradley

The rise and fall of the middle class in the US has almost exactly tracked with the rise and subsequent gutting of labor unions in the US. Although this chart is a few years old, the trend has not changed over the past few years. As union membership has fallen, wages have fallen.

As we celebrate labor on this Labor Day weekend, the United States needs to face the fact that strong labor union membership was one of the key ingredients that made the US the growth engine that it was in the middle of the last century. If we do not stem the tide of weakening unions we will continue to see widening inequality with all the attendant problems:

Robert Reich explains why unions are needed (5 minutes):

Note: An updated poll shows that unions now have an approval rate of 71%.    

In recent years, Iowa has become one of the leading union busting states, with the biggest union buster being the radical right wing state legislature. From earlier this week on this blog:

“In the early months and the night hours of 2017, the newly elected Republican majority in the Iowa Legislature assaulted Iowa’s public servants by making changes to Chapter 20 of the Iowa Code.

Driven by out-of-state right-wing overlords like the Koch Brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and acting swiftly on an issue no one campaigned on, they stripped collective bargaining rights for 180,000 public sector employees in Iowa. Relieving public employers from their obligations to bargain with their employees on almost every working condition, they unilaterally changed a system that had served both employers and employees alike for more than 40 years – a system that was created in a bipartisan fashion with a Democratic majority in the statehouse and a Republican governor at the time.

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And now our communities are feeling the results. Public service jobs traditionally   have had a higher percentage of women in the field than their private sector counterparts, a higher percentage public sector workers have college degrees, and public sector jobs used to be the best jobs in virtually every city and small town across Iowa. But now, we’re starting to lose those workers. They’re quitting at a higher rate than ever before because legislators took away their right to bargain.”

Iowa’s state government has also set a hostile environment for labor unions in the state. This has resulted in a very unwelcoming atmosphere for workers in this state. In a survey released Thursday, Oxfamamerica.org ranks the states according to how labor is treated in that state, best to worst.  

At the top are Oregon, Washington and California. At the bottom is North Carolina. Joining many of the notoriously anti-union state of the old Deep South is Iowa, clocking in at #39. I am unable to reproduce their charts here, but please visit this story to see the rankings. 

We are constantly bombarded by claims from Iowa’s business leaders and current government leaders that Iowa is short workers for their businesses. The solution would be to pay them better and allow them to be represented by a union that would work for better pay and conditions. Apparently that is too much to ask. They expect workers to work for low wages in lousy conditions.

One only need look at the business and government response to the covid pandemic in the meat industry in Iowa to get an idea of the kind of thinking prevalent in the leadership in Iowa. They certainly showed no respect or concern for the Iowa worker. I have been told by more than one graduating senior that they wanted out of Iowa so they could pursue better opportunities. 

We know how Kim Reynolds feels about labor. She showed as part of the union-busting administration in 2017, then again in her response to the pandemic. Labor means little to her.

Here are some snippets showing where Democratic candidate Deidre DeJear on labor relating to education:

  • Increase compensation for public school educators, administrators, and support professionals to retain and attract the talent we need to keep our schools operating.

  • Restore and enhance collective bargaining for all public employees, educators, and support staff.

  • Protect our existing public employee pension fund– IPERS.

  • Reinstate a loan forgiveness program for current and new educators who commit to stay and teach in the state of Iowa for five years.

  • Invest in increases in quality affordable childcare statewide, especially rural and low-income communities.

Re-elect Reynolds and we will continue to see the exodus of young people to states with better opportunities. Elect DeJear AND a Democratic legislature and watch that trend turn around. Vote for those who will make labor proud to stay in Iowa.

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President Biden: “I Will Defend Democracy With Every Fiber Of My Being”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Trish Nelson


Watch President Biden’s historic speech on saving the soul of our nation.

Presiden Biden:  “And if we do our duty, if we do our duty in 2022 and beyond, then ages still to come will say, we, all of us here, we kept the faith. We preserved democracy.”

President Biden: “Vote! Vote! Vote!”

Enjoy the patriotic music beginning at around 11:00. President Biden’s remarks begin around 16:00.

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Liz Mathis Delivers At Political Soapbox

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Trish Nelson

https://lizmathis.com
Liz Mathis second district congressional candidate

“I’m a native Iowan. I love living here. And I love Iowa. So vote for me on November 8th. I’m Liz Mathis. I’m running for congress in District 2.”

Support Liz Mathis to defeat Trump loyalist Ashley Hinson. Check out her campaign website to volunteer or make a donation. https://lizmathis.com/

Follow her on  facebook and Twitter

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Rob Sand Is Passionate About Government Efficiency

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Trish Nelson

Partisanship is “poisoning our politics at every level.”  – Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand

Support Rob Sand for State Auditor. Check out his campaign website at https://robsand.com/ to donate or volunteer.

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Union Busting Iowa Style

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Trish Nelson

Prairie Dog

From the September 2022 issue of  The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter. The PP is  funded entirely by reader subscription,  available only in hard copy for $15/yr.  Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. Click here for archived issues.

by Jesse Case

In the early months and the night hours of 2017, the newly elected Republican majority in the Iowa Legislature assaulted Iowa’s public servants by making changes to Chapter 20 of the Iowa Code.

Driven by out-of-state right-wing overlords like the Koch Brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and acting swiftly on an issue no one campaigned on, they stripped collective bargaining rights for 180,000 public sector employees in Iowa. Relieving public employers from their obligations to bargain with their employees on almost every working condition, they unilaterally changed a system that had served both employers and employees alike for more than 40 years – a system that was created in a bipartisan fashion with a Democratic majority in the statehouse and a Republican governor at the time.

In its place, they left a system where local entities like school boards, city councils, and boards of supervisors get to decide if and what they want to bargain. They created a space for union-busting law firms and consultants to manipulate local elected officials, most of whom aren’t experts in labor law or the history of collective bargaining and its effects on the people they govern.

This year marks the fifth year since the Iowa legislature destroyed the rights of our public servants to bargain collectively. For more than four decades, public servants in communities large and small, knew that Iowa had their backs and they could rest easy when they went home after work, knowing they had a say in their own working conditions and benefits. But five years ago, corporate-owned politicians decided that snowplow drivers, sanitation workers, school bus drivers, teachers, nurses, and other public servants shouldn’t have a voice on the job. The results have been devastating.

Gutless politicians from both parties sitting on school boards, city councils, county boards of supervisors, and the state of Iowa itself, began to voluntarily gut union contracts – not because they had to, but because they could.

Our members have been sharing their stories of how this attack on their union rights has personally affected them. A school bus driver told us that his District took bereavement leave out of his union contract right before his mother passed away and he didn’t have as much time off to grieve as he would have had just a month before. A snowplow driver tells us his insurance premiums keep going up, his wife has cystic fibrosis, and they are suffering both physically and financially because of this bad law. A county jailer tells us they lost their longevity pay, and years of public service to the county now mean nothing.

And now our communities are feeling the results. Public service jobs traditionally   have had a higher percentage of women in the field than their private sector counterparts, a higher percentage public sector workers have college degrees, and public sector jobs used to be the best jobs in virtually every city and small town across Iowa. But now, we’re starting to lose those workers. They’re quitting at a higher rate than ever before because legislators took away their right to bargain.

It’s our belief that every worker has a right to a union, regardless of where you live and regardless of what you do. If you dedicate your life to serving the public – you
deserve a voice on the job and you deserve a union. Whether working in Des Moines or a rural community far from the closest interstate or airport, our public employees deserve respect, and they deserve a union.

We’re putting elected officials on notice. If you tried to bust our union in the last five  years— you’re on our list. If you’ve been elected to office and you think it’s your right  to deny workers a union, you’re on our radar. We will be reaching out to local elected officials in the coming months and asking them to restore union rights. If they don’t,  we will picket, we will protest, we will stand up, and we will sit in if we must. Public sector union-busters are no longer going to get a free pass.

The attack on public servants has affected every city and small town across Iowa. It’s time to organize and fight back. Unions across Iowa are organizing more protests, pickets, and press conferences to expose the systematic attempts to bust unions and erode the living standards of Iowa’s working families. Please take the time to attend these events when you can.

Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/Teamsters238 to find out when and where.

It’s your fight, too.

—Jesse Case is Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 238 and
Vice-President of the Iowa Federation of Labor

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Deidre DeJear Iowa State Fair Soapbox: “Iowa Is Worth The Work”

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Trish Nelson


Dave Bradley’s excellent post yesterday describes how the Republicans have devised a plan to take money from public schools and give it to their cronies.

Deidre DeJear, the Democrat running to oust Kim Reynolds is s a former educator.  DeJear coached East High’s girls basketball team to a 26-0 season in 2012 and won the state championship. Why is that important? Because how she did that reveals what she has to offer Iowa as governor.

“Every time we approached an opponent we recognized the talent, the gifts, the assets that opponent had. We weren’t haters. Once we recognized their gifts and talents we then focused our attention on our own gifts and talent…on how we were going to overcome the barrier of winning each and every practice. These are the moments when we focus on ourselves, not only reminding ourselves what we’re capable of but we go and share with others what we are capable of.”

If you have not had a chance to see her in person please listen to Deidre DeJear’s Des Moines Register Political Soapbox remarks at the Iowa State Fair as she outlines what is happening and how to save public education in Iowa.  Check out DeJear’s campaign website and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

1.5 billion dollars of your taxpayer money is sitting in an account that this governor is calling a trust fund. Well I’m of a mindset that you’ve got to be in a position of privilege to have a trust fund. That’s Iowa’s rainy day fund and it’s raining in our state – on mental health care, on education, on health care, on child care. We have to have leadership who is going to put your resources to work not circumvent the problem.”  – Deidre DeJear

 

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DeJear: A Governor Who Will Lead on Education

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Dave Bradley

Many Iowans may have been pleasantly surprised Thursday morning to hear stories about Deidre DeJear’s plans to start Iowa on a trek back to the top of the educational heap in America. Education used to be one of Iowa’s bragging points. Terry Branstad and Kim Reynolds over the past 12 years have taken Iowa from the top to below the middle with seemingly no plan to stop there.

Last year we saw what was yet another virtual cutback in school spending as the radical right Republicans only appropriated a 2.5% increase for schools for this coming year. That was much below the inflation rate at the time. It is now well below inflation. 

Even after that skinty raise, Iowa’s current governor was not satisfied with making public schools hurt for funds. No, just to add insult to injury she worked her tail off to try to hand a large bundle of that money to privatized education. When she didn’t get her way, she went after her own party members who had voted against her plan to privatize schools.

You see, privatizing schools is Republican dogma these days. Anything that can be done to wreck the public system and promote education for profit is now at the heart of the Republican playbook. In a scathing article in the August 11 New Republic  on education in America, writer Brynn Tannehill let’s us really know the sordid plans that Republicans have using ‘privatization”:

Republicans, and white conservatives, have long been hostile to public schools. School desegregation drove white evangelicals to become the strongest Republican demographic. Ronald Reagan promised to end the Department of Education in 1980. Trump put Betsy DeVos in charge of the Department of Education, precisely because she was a leading proponent (and funder) of defunding public schools, and funneling it to religious schools. During her confirmation hearings it became clear that she knew nothing about education, and provided plagiarized and laughably bad answers to questions, asserting that teachers need guns to ward off grizzly bear attacks.

Republican candidates talk about “school choice” and putting God and prayer back in schools. What they really want, though, will result in the end of public education for the poor, and disfavored minorities like LGBT people.

Their plan looks like this: Parents are given a voucher for several thousand dollars that comes out of the state education budget. The money can be spent on tuition for charter or private schools, microschools (collective homeschooling), or regular homeschooling. Republicans say the “money goes to the kids.” In reality, it reduces money going to public schools to a point where the schools will be dramatically underfunded.

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Florida’s history with vouchers shows us where this leads: poorer students promised a better education end up in low-cost, low-quality charter schools in abandoned strip malls that go out of business with little or no warning, with devastating results for the students. Republicans across the country have ensured that there is little to no oversight of charter schools, and that they do not have to meet many state education regulations. This is ostensibly to foster “innovation,” but in reality it is to make them more profitable, and conceal how shoddy many of them are. In Ohio, as Jane Mayer reported in her gripping new article about the destruction right-wing Republicans have wrought in that state, after a decade of GOP operatives siphoning off public school funding and directing it toward politically connected charter schools, state education rankings have slipped from fifth in the nation to 31st.

The result is tremendous variance in the quality of charter schools, mostly reflecting how much funding they have. “Allowing the market to decide” hasn’t created a rising tide that lifts all boats; students with less money get a worse education, and charter schools don’t seem to produce better results overall. You get out of a system what you put into it, and Republicans want to put as little as possible into education.

Is this what Iowans want for their future? I don’t think any rational person does. Yet here is what will happen to Iowa if Kim Reynolds gets her way. By the way, Reynolds reward would be a rising star in the pantheon of current radical party personalities.

Deidre DeJear will move Iowa back to the state that once prized education. Her plan is laid out on her website here.  

At the end of the video, chair Jeff Kaufmann of the radical right party states Iowa’s students are on a better path. I respectfully disagree. Students are on a path, but not a better path. As noted earlier our path is headed down with no apparent stopping point.

Where once Iowa education was mentioned in the same league with Massachusetts and Minnesota, we are headed to being in the same league with Mississippi and Alabama. Your choice, Iowa. The choice is pretty clear. It is you future as well as the students and their parents.

Iowa has a real choice this fall.
Democrat Deidre DeJear for Governor

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Sunday Funday: Guns In Schools Edition

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Dave Bradley

Randy Rainbow’ thoughts on thoughts and prayers (4 minutes): (not safe for work)

That was quite a news story to wake up to Friday morning: The Spirit Lake School Board voted to arm (meaning carry guns) ten members of their staff. What could possibly go wrong? Well,  maybe a gun drops out of a pocket or purse and fires accidentally. Maybe (as happened a couple of weeks ago) a staffer leaves the gun in the bathroom after using the facilities. Or perhaps a student somehow obtains a gun when a staffer is distracted.

If the staffer does use his or her gun as directed, how are police to know they are “a good guy with a gun” when the bullets are flying? Teachers I have talked to have told me that if guns come into the schools then they are going out. Once bullets fly, they can hit anyone.

The more guns out there, the higher the risk they will get used. When they are used, who knows who they will hit. 

Another week for the books.

A) In a totally anticipated move, President Biden relieved loan debt for what group of people?

B) Fifty-nine years ago today, on a very hot summer day hundreds of thousands staged a march in what city to protest for civil rights and jobs?

C) California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the sale of what starting in 2035?

D) Two Florida residents pled guilty Wednesday to stealing the diary of what member of the President’s family?

E) This diary in the question above was then sold to what scurrilous “news” company?

F) In the continuing defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, what Fox ‘star’ will be deposed?

G) August 3, 1980 saw the formation of what workers union in Poland that led to the downfall of communist governments a little over a year later?

H) It feels like this was bound to happen – what two major purveyors of covid vaccines are squaring off in court over patents?

I) In Texas, a law went into effect that requires schools to display donated signs that have what phrase on them?

J) In the fallout from the Uvalde school shooting, what civic leader was fired from his job last week over concern for his actions during the shooting?

K) Based on data from blood tests drawn by commercial labs in Iowa, the CDC estimates that what percent of children under 18 in Iowa have had covid?

L) The UK is looking at energy bills increasing by at least how much as winter sets in?

M) Dr. Anthony Fauci announced this week he will be stepping away from his duties at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases beginning when?

N) Tuesday’s election results once again favored Democrats. In a primary in Florida, far right activist Laura Loomer blamed her loss on election rigging by who?

O) September 1, 1939 5:30 AM, Poland. What happened?

P) 300 Top Secret classified documents were reported to be found where Tuesday?

Q) In Michigan, two men were convicted in federal court in a plot to kidnap who?

R) President Biden named Kim Cheatle to head what agency that protects the president and has been mired in controversy for several months?

S) In Ukraine, a potential world wide disaster may arise as shelling continues on a what in Zaporizhzhia?

T) “We got enough trees — don’t we have enough trees around here?” This is a quote from what Republican senate candidate in Georgia, whose public statements often make no sense?

Trump took 300+ classified documents. And not just classified documents, but material classified as Special Access. That’s not stuff he can declassify. 

This is unbelievably bad. 

It’s so bad, that we may not be able to access the damage without making it worse. – Stonekettle tweet

Answers:

A) people with student loans within certain restrictions.

B) Washington DC

C) gasoline powered cars.

D) Biden’s daughter Ashley

E) Project Veritas – expect charges to be filed against them for knowingly taking stolen goods.

F) Sean Hannity.

G) Solidarity

H) Pfizer and Moderna

I) “In God We Trust”

J) the police chief for the way he botched the situation

K) 84.5%

L) 80%

M) the end of this year

N) Republicans. She is a Republican

O) Germany invaded Poland starting WWII.

P) at Mar-a-Lago

Q) Governor Gretchen Whitmer

R) The Secret Service

S) a nuclear energy plant

T) Herschel Walker

“If the IRS can go after billionaires, they can go after anyone.”

Uhm, that’s the whole f*cking point. – John Collins

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AFPI, Miller-Meeks and Social Security

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Dave Bradley

In my previous post, I made mention of a presentation that the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) had recently in Newton, Iowa. AFPI is a radical right wing think tank. One of Iowa’s current members of Congress, Marriannette Miller-Meeks has decided to throw her lot in with these radicals. 

This seems to be a very bad choice. If it is not a bad choice for Miller-Meeks, it is most certainly a very bad choice for those she represents. This choice tells us that she will be giving groups like the AFPI more access. My guess is that Miller-Meeks sees aligning herself with radical groups such as AFPI as her road back to congress, rather than engaging her constituents and doing what is best for her district.

Miller-Meeks voting record and her statements really expose this as her campaign strategy. To hell with the district, I am going bid with the radical right!

The reason I bring this up is that there was an answer to a question at the very end the AFPI presentation that scared me to the quick. As reported in the Newton Daily News:

The Hoelscher referred to in the following excerpt is Doug Hoelscher who is n AFPI leader and ran the presentation: (ed. note: corrected spelling of Hoelscher 9/2/2022 per comment below. I regret this error and apologize for it.)

Hoelscher did allow a fifth person to question the panelists. The attendee specifically asked about AFPI’s stance on turning social security into a discretionary spending program, which is something U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., had spoken about recently.

“They want to make it so that social security has to be voted on every year by Congress,” the man said. “I want to know where does the America First Agenda fit into this because it’s not mentioned in the book. I want to know where it’s coming from and what do you support as far as social security.”

Hoelscher said AFPI wants to keep its commitment to seniors who need the safety net of social security. The organization, he said, is looking for long-term solutions to decrease the nation’s debt. Hoelscher then said he would speak with the man after the meeting since the panel was so short on time.”

In the part that is bolded (my bolding), note the reference to Social Security as a “safety net.” By couching Social Security as a safety net, most folks will miss the point that SS will have gone from being a social insurance program to being a welfare type program. Instead of now being a program that people earn through a lifetime of work, SS becomes a program that is given to people through a means testing process.

This is not what Social Security was meant to be. Imagine having means testing for SS? Imagine having Republican congresses lower the payment yearly while making it harder to “qualify” for Social Security. This is what Republicans want to do. Does Miller-Meeks want to do this? Did she object? NO!

Christina Bohannan will fight for workers. She will fight for the retired and the disabled. She will fight for women’s reproductive rights! We need her in congress right now.

During the rest of this campaign watch Miller-Meeks continue to aim he campaign at the extreme radical right. She apparently believes that is her path to victory.

I wish to note at this point that this district has for most of the last 40 years elected representatives who represented the middle ground. Both Jim Leach and Dave Loebsack represented the district well. Both would go out of their way to listen to voters on both sides of the aisle. Both have endorsed Christina Bohannan!

Christina Bohannan will stand up for real Iowans. She will continue the tradition of the representative who listens to her constituents. This year the vote you make may have a lifetime of consequences. Please pay attention to the issues.

https://bohannanforcongress.com
First district Democratic congressional candidate Christina Bohannan

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