Very rude gate agent @united publicly scolded me for having to check bag after missing drop cut off by 4 mins due to construction! Flight 1857 MDT to ORD. Never had that happen. Unnecessary to be so confrontational but I said “thank you & have a nice day” anyway. God bless!
Bruce Hennes @crisiscomm and @CleMetroBar Becky Ruppert McMahon sharing tips on responding to crisis situations and navigating public positions for Bar Associations #BLI24
“When your leadership year is done, you must let go. And leave the organization as good but preferably better than when you started.” - @MeeshieWI #leadershipisateamsport#BLI24
A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.
It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.
But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.
I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.
Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.
There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.