Ellen Giarratana

(Former) Mississippi transplant, Colorado born and bred. Civil rights attorney and neature lover.

[Adam Ganucheau @GanucheauAdam]

You don't have the full story until Anna Wolfe drops in.

As ever, she does not disappoint.

She takes us aboard a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, inside a fully nude strip club in Miami, and straight into the smoky backroom of a Jackson cigar shop.

https://t.co/Dk5IDLDuwY

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

In awe of @JCharGilbert’s leadership and work ethic in making Colorado the leader in medical debt policy. The next @SenWarren

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

Is there any way to get PERA for doing the work of state agencies? Asking for a friend.

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

TFW you find a case EXACTLY on point. Chef’s kiss.

[Jeremy Jojola @jeremyjojola]

Lol Colorado. Saying no to 🍷 in grocery stores but yes to 🍄.

[Rights For Residents @RFRColorado]

"You have a right to safe housing that's affordable and that just doesn't exist up here anymore," said Kunze. "We are your neighbors. We are the people who serve the tourists who we recruit very heavily in this state." https://t.co/9ngfoAqFqn

[César @crimmigration]

Yesterday, a federal court in Colorado issued another blow to "voluntary work programs" inside private immigration prisons. The latest order comes in a years-long lawsuit, Menocal v GEO Group.

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

This piece of the MS TANF issue isn’t talked about enough.

[David Blount @SenDavidBlount]

About 90% of MS applicants for TANF are rejected.

[ESPN @espn]

Brett Favre continued to press Mississippi state officials for help in paying for new sports facilities at Southern Miss after being told by the then-governor that the misuse of state welfare funds could be illegal, according to a court filing.

More: https://t.co/Fjb2gpDQ90

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

@goodreads Chicasetta

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

The #freshstartact would also give CO the opportunity to seek grant funding to implement SB22-099, which passed the #coleg with bipartisan support last session.

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

States (including Colorado!) have led the way in ensuring everyone has a #secondchance and a shot at #redemption. It's time for Congress to do the same by passing the bipartisan #CleanSlateAct and the #FreshStartAct. @JoeNeguse & @RepKenBuck CO families are counting on you.

[Adam Ganucheau @GanucheauAdam]

Brett Favre: Will the media find out that we're using welfare funds intended to help the poorest residents of America's poorest state to build a volleyball center?

Nancy New: Nah. Oh yeah, the governor is fully on board!

@ayewolfe five years later:

https://t.co/rWXHRXISsu

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

@MSTODAYnews has been doing a fantastic job at exposing the state government for what it really is.

[Isabelle Taft @IsabelleTaft]

During the pandemic, the state Division of Medicaid sent women letters telling them they were losing coverage 60 days postpartum-- even though they were still covered and the state was drawing federal $$ to pay for their care.

My story for @MSTODAYnews: https://t.co/1wfCM4NU3U

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

Omg I know her!! Check out this reporting on CO’s hospital discounted care law that my amazing colleague @JCharGilbert has been working so incredibly hard on for many months (along with others at @CCLPnews). Good stuff for Coloradans.

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

@SN_Rawit A good (married) friend of mine told me the same thing. Lord help us.

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

Wait… so are our tax dollars just used to write reports to say how dangerous and unsafe a situation is? Shouldn’t we be, IDK, taking action to correct it?

Feds flagged dire Jackson water problems a month before the system failed - Mississippi Today https://t.co/yyWvVm4XrV

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

Jackson, Mississippi Has No Safe Tap Water for the Foreseeable Future. It's a Crisis Decades in the Making - TIME https://t.co/Bz5xvx5XTJ

[Ellen Giarratana @GiarratanaE]

This is a complete joke. Those in power have known about the horrendous infrastructure for many years. Guarantee ARPA funding is not going to the residents of Jackson. Infuriating.

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

LATEST: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves now says that 180,000 people in the City of Jackson—the state capital—will be without running water to drink or even brush their teeth "for an unknown period of time." https://t.co/RyWu22NOKL

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

If you're gonna force people back to the office for a job that could be done from home just as well, you should have to pay for their commute. pretty simple