1 year ago @time recognized #silencebreakers and #metoo. I’m on the cover but it’s me +147 women who changed CA politics. In 2018 we created @wesaidenough passed bills that protect vulnerable workers and forced culture change in #caleg. One year in and we are just beginning. ✊🏾
#BREAKING:
Disgraced former Congressman Matt Gaetz just WITHDREW his name to be the U.S. attorney general. Let us pray for the courageous women who came forward to testify — and should not face retribution for providing sworn evidence in a legal proceeding. #WeSaidEnough
Powerful @RepresentPledge FLIP THE SCRIPT with Jen Siebel Newsom and honorees including @DoloresHuerta who’s still organzing volunteers to win CA-13 and @WeSaidEnough leader Adama Iwu who summoned us to keep uplifting women, root out harassment and support each other.
Heartbroken for Diddy Combs’ victims. Enraged at him and his enablers who killed dreams and trampled on dignity. He should not see freedom after denying it. So many women lost their careers; we lost the beauty they could have created. We ALL deserve better. #WeSaidEnough
Look y’all we need to talk about last night’s #PresidentialDebate.
Yes Trump had a bad night — and Biden had a worse night perfomatively. POTUS needs a course correct and a timely long unscripted interview to show what we who’ve seen the President up close over these past months already know: this was a one-off bad debate — as Presidents Obama and Reagan both had with their first re-elect debates — not an ongoing condition. The stakes of losing our rights and freedoms are too high to leave to chance or spin.
I’ve served as a DNC Member since 1996 and can tell you that people who thought Barack Obama should quit for Hillary Clinton (2010), Barack Obama failed his first debate (2012), Hillary Clinton was overprepared (2016) Nancy Pelosi was too old to be Speaker (2018) Joe Biden was unable to beat Donald Trump (2020) John Fetterman’s stroke DQ’ed him (2022) have given us decades of warnings — but never a replacement.
President Biden has a stutter and a cold — both were on display last night and neither disqualify him or justify cancelling the millions of votes he earned in the primary. Full stop.
The undecided voters swinging to Biden after the debate obviously saw more value in Joe than the ableists did — and more danger in Trump than people more accustomed to 45’s lies and extremism.
So don’t agonize - organize! Channel your nerves into the work we need to win the election and save our rights and our Democracy.
Truly unhinged travel experience my friend @SamanthaCorbin is having curtesy of @united. I stopped flying them a year ago and went to @Delta and it changed my life.
This bill and these comments are an insult to every single staffer, former, present or future, who devote their lives to public service. These remarks come from a person who does not understand the building and refuses to see she is seeking to eliminate opportunities.
Capitol staffers make recos. They don’t directly regulate entities. As Members, we make the final decisions. This makes their profession unique to other state workers. We need to address the staff exodus by showing we value them, not by restricting their career options.