Started the last day of my Walk Across Connecticut in the rain in Ledyard and ended with our traditional end-of-walk celebration at the Mystic Seaport Museum with a beautiful sunny afternoon.
I wish you had your NYT article today posted here to reply about because that is what prompts me to seek you out here. I'm in Oregon so I can't reach you directly except by snail mail - which i did do again in mid-July, as I did in July 2022 as well, when I snail-mailed every Democrat in Congress both years about this:
The single most vital crucial, concrete answer as Step One in the project you are addressing about healing America is to implement the very pledge made in the 2020 Democratic Platform but buried on pg. 57 and never campaigned on:
"Democrats believe that the interests and the voices of the American people should determine our elections. Money is not speech, and corporations are not people. Democrats will fight to pass a Constitutional amendment that will go beyond merely overturning Citizens United and related decisions like Buckley v. Valeo by eliminating all private financing from federal elections." (p. 57, July 31, 2020, final Democratic Party Platform, bold added)
This is at the heart of the toxicity killing the American spirit, keeping many from voting out of understandable cynicism about political corruption. (Democrats should be making a goal of moving the electorate from 67% to 75% of eligible voters). Turning 2024 into a referendum/plebiscite where Democrats (preferably as I've repeatedly urged VP Harris - and Pres. Biden before her - to do in her convention acceptance speech) announce: Vote for the Democrat in every legislative race, federal and state and for President Harris and we vow to vote for and ratify the end of quid pro quo corruption by instituting public funding and ending the glitter of private financial gain that lures the corrupt (Trump, Santos et al) and then also beats down those with good intentions who succumb to Big Donors out of desperation to not be primaried or defunded out of office.
I urge you to ask your staff to find and for you to read the snail mail I sent that should have arrived in your D.C. office the week before you adjourned. It much more fully makes the case for turning 2024 into this "radical" (Profiles in Courage-of-Convictions) platform that is not radical at all except that it demands you and all politicians to be brave enough to cut the umbilical cord to not just Big Donors but to the slime of begging constituents and non-constituents alike to "feed" you when politics is supposed to be about government serving constituents, not begging them.
I'd so welcome being able to talk with you about this but at least hoping this message will make its way to your eyes asap in this all-critical week of our party's convention
Chris, you give new meaning to "meet people where they are" and "manage by walking around". Thank you for being a role model for leading the CT and US forward. Keep on walking the talk...
Dear Chris, I just read the really interesting piece about you in the NYT and would like to invite you to read my Substack article, Capitalism is Dead! Long Live Capacitism: https://fdms.substack.com/p/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capacitism. It references a couple of books I wrote a few years ago that address the very malaise you are exploring. It also references the work of others, such as Gary Snyder and Peter Barnes, that you might be interested in. Feel free also to subscribe to my Substack: I just subscribed to yours and look forward to reading the posts. With best wishes, Fraser Murison Smith
CHRIS…PLEASE READ. We need a show like the old meet the press, in the 1990s. 1- republican, 1- democrat, sitting side by side.. being asked questions..that way, they can be debate, and correct each other, live on air, no bullshit..THE PEOPLE WILL SEE THE TRUTH THEN..
I read Heather this morning and am feeling a bit unnerved. Have we lost America, guys? I mean, viewing the latest reports, it’s much worse than I imagined, and I don’t know how to wrest the USA from Putin’s grip anymore. The take-over of our three branches is complete, our cybersecurity apparatus is now under their control, as well. The US military has been decapitated, and the press neutered. Is it over?
Walk, talk, listen, look, clarity at the pace of life. Good work.
I wish you had your NYT article today posted here to reply about because that is what prompts me to seek you out here. I'm in Oregon so I can't reach you directly except by snail mail - which i did do again in mid-July, as I did in July 2022 as well, when I snail-mailed every Democrat in Congress both years about this:
The single most vital crucial, concrete answer as Step One in the project you are addressing about healing America is to implement the very pledge made in the 2020 Democratic Platform but buried on pg. 57 and never campaigned on:
"Democrats believe that the interests and the voices of the American people should determine our elections. Money is not speech, and corporations are not people. Democrats will fight to pass a Constitutional amendment that will go beyond merely overturning Citizens United and related decisions like Buckley v. Valeo by eliminating all private financing from federal elections." (p. 57, July 31, 2020, final Democratic Party Platform, bold added)
This is at the heart of the toxicity killing the American spirit, keeping many from voting out of understandable cynicism about political corruption. (Democrats should be making a goal of moving the electorate from 67% to 75% of eligible voters). Turning 2024 into a referendum/plebiscite where Democrats (preferably as I've repeatedly urged VP Harris - and Pres. Biden before her - to do in her convention acceptance speech) announce: Vote for the Democrat in every legislative race, federal and state and for President Harris and we vow to vote for and ratify the end of quid pro quo corruption by instituting public funding and ending the glitter of private financial gain that lures the corrupt (Trump, Santos et al) and then also beats down those with good intentions who succumb to Big Donors out of desperation to not be primaried or defunded out of office.
I urge you to ask your staff to find and for you to read the snail mail I sent that should have arrived in your D.C. office the week before you adjourned. It much more fully makes the case for turning 2024 into this "radical" (Profiles in Courage-of-Convictions) platform that is not radical at all except that it demands you and all politicians to be brave enough to cut the umbilical cord to not just Big Donors but to the slime of begging constituents and non-constituents alike to "feed" you when politics is supposed to be about government serving constituents, not begging them.
I'd so welcome being able to talk with you about this but at least hoping this message will make its way to your eyes asap in this all-critical week of our party's convention
Sincerely,
Carolyn Taylor, Ph.D., M.F.T. in Eugene, OR
Chris, you give new meaning to "meet people where they are" and "manage by walking around". Thank you for being a role model for leading the CT and US forward. Keep on walking the talk...
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Run for president, please!!!🙏
Yes!👏
We the people will prevail! E have just begun to kick Nazi ass!
Dear Chris, I just read the really interesting piece about you in the NYT and would like to invite you to read my Substack article, Capitalism is Dead! Long Live Capacitism: https://fdms.substack.com/p/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capacitism. It references a couple of books I wrote a few years ago that address the very malaise you are exploring. It also references the work of others, such as Gary Snyder and Peter Barnes, that you might be interested in. Feel free also to subscribe to my Substack: I just subscribed to yours and look forward to reading the posts. With best wishes, Fraser Murison Smith
CHRIS…PLEASE READ. We need a show like the old meet the press, in the 1990s. 1- republican, 1- democrat, sitting side by side.. being asked questions..that way, they can be debate, and correct each other, live on air, no bullshit..THE PEOPLE WILL SEE THE TRUTH THEN..
Your thoughts., thank you Gary
In all seriousness:
I read Heather this morning and am feeling a bit unnerved. Have we lost America, guys? I mean, viewing the latest reports, it’s much worse than I imagined, and I don’t know how to wrest the USA from Putin’s grip anymore. The take-over of our three branches is complete, our cybersecurity apparatus is now under their control, as well. The US military has been decapitated, and the press neutered. Is it over?
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/the-democratic-blueprint-to-take
Share this with every democrat. We have to act! Thank you!
Proud of you as a former Connecticut resident. Live in Florida now and it’s disgusting how the governor is little Hitler now. Keep up the good fight.
We need Chris and Pete as leaders. Schumer is useless!
I am a co Wethersfield Eagle and want to Thank you for all you do!
Thanks for all that you do for Connecticut and the country. 😊🇺🇸😊
Our next president?