Good morning from the state that brought you the best damn candidate for president, Kamala Harris. Ok...that might be just a bit over the top. Happy Mother’s Day to any moms out there who may be reading this. Yes, fur babies count as children. Except with the IRS.
I thought I’d try a different type of diary today. I’m going to highlight the major events (read as reruns), post new (or new to me) stories and tweets to keep us joyous warriors happy and motivated.
First, we have two stories celebrating our candidate and this special day.
Senator Harris started the week out as the keynote speaker at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit on Sunday. I’m not going to link the speech but highlight one statement:
“It leaves out people in this room who helped build cities like Detroit. It leaves out women who are on their feet all day—many of them working without equal pay,” Harris said. ”And the conversation too often suggests certain voters will only vote for certain candidates regardless of whether their ideas will lift up all our families. It’s short sighted. It’s wrong. And voters deserve better. As a party, we can’t let ourselves be dragged into simplistic narratives or yesterday’s politics.”
I don’t know why the pundits can’t get it through their heads, that you don’t have to be a white male to beat trump.
On Monday, she met with American Federation of Teachers in Detroit. This is a thread (click on the date and it will open up in a new tab).
Also on Monday...
Miscellaneous “feel good” stories gathered from other sources.
This is today.
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The Kamala2020 community group has been created to positively support Senator Kamala Harris, and not to engage in negativity towards other community members or any other Democrats running in the 2020 primaries.
All should be made to feel welcomed here. What’s not welcomed here is petty bickering over any of our preferred candidates, or personal attacks on fellow Democrats. We’re not responsible for the actions of others who may offend, insult or attempt to sow discord and disunity — that’s on them.
What we are responsible for are our own words and actions — that’s 100% on us.
I’d like to ask all group members, as well as those dropping by who support or are interested in Kamala’s bid for the nomination, that we not respond to negativity from other campaign’s supporters with negativity. Let’s do better than our best and respond with respect, or try to hold our peace. Doing no harm costs us nothing... pie-fights will cost us everything.