Sunday, September 22, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •  Pinned Tweet
     Aug 14
    NEWS: We are launching Bern Notice -- the ' campaign's digital newsletter with scoops, insights and news nuggets about the election. Subscribe at this link -- and please retweet: Bern after reading...
    158 replies1,233 retweets2,343 likes
     
     
  •  9 hours ago
     
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  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    I’m in Colorado w/ visiting communities whose air is being poisoned by fracking. What we’re seeing is appalling. Companies are building fracking sites on public lands, across the street from schools + homes. Their toxic emissions are invisible. This camera sees them.
    1,681 replies8,342 retweets24,280 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    If you're looking for a candidate who'll enact national rent control & a , his name is . Landlords can't be allowed to raise rents to whatever price they want whenever they want. It's time to think big, not small
    14 replies314 retweets730 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    If the climate was an oil field, we would have already rescued it and protected it
    18 replies191 retweets872 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    Counterpoint: Being able to breathe is good for the economy
     
    2 replies80 retweets260 likes
     
     
  •  10 hours ago
    Read between the lines here: Republicans seem extremely nervous about the possibility of defeating in the Democratic primary 👇🏻
    Colorado’s economy would be devastated if and succeed in banning fracking and implementing the Green New Deal
    8 replies53 retweets191 likes
     
     
  •  15 hours ago
    Today, 3 of of my favorite Democrats hung out in Colorado: and
    12 replies48 retweets309 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     19 hours ago
    The very bottom of medical debt plan feels very huge. He wants to replace companies like Equifax, Transunion and Experian with a public credit registry through CFPB.
    31 replies365 retweets1,346 likes
     
     
  •  19 hours ago
    NEWS: split with Obama & most Democrats to help GOP lawmakers & his Wall St donors crush millions of Americans with medical debt — ’ new plan released today will reverse that legislation & end medical debt.
    7 replies187 retweets462 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     20 hours ago
    Discussing the this morning with and and The time for incrementalism is over. It took 1 generation to create the crisis, and we now have this generation to save our future. Together forward.
     
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    7 replies46 retweets217 likes
     
     
  •  20 hours ago
    NEWS: broke with Obama to become one of only 3 Dems who voted with the GOP to make it harder for Americans to reduce their medical debt. ' new plan would reverse those changes & eliminate medical debt
    16 replies563 retweets1,339 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 20
    since we’re talking Medicare-for-all tradeoffs, I’ll flag this RAND analysis of single payer in New York State it projected tax increases would be offset by reduction in premiums and out-of-pocket spending
    7 replies68 retweets180 likes
     
     
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  •   Retweeted
     Sep 20
    It’s just so frustrating you want to take away my right to be on hold with Aetna.
    If a household pays a little more in taxes for Medicare for All & that cost is more than offset by paying WAY less for healthcare, thats a net gain of income. It is dishonest to pedantically focus on the tax side without mentioning the savings side.…
    23 replies179 retweets1,136 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 20
    I’m excited by the young activists I see today as part of the . They’re right--the climate crisis is here and it’s on us to act. My colleagues and I passed a monumental bill to reduce carbon emissions in CO but our work is far from over.
     
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  •  Sep 20
    If a household pays a little more in taxes for Medicare for All & that cost is more than offset by paying WAY less for healthcare, thats a net gain of income. It is dishonest to pedantically focus on the tax side without mentioning the savings side. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
    206 replies1,866 retweets6,155 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Sep 19
    Bluhm's casinos are notorious for threatening and intimidating workers who try to unionize. I'm not sad he wants to leave the party, I'm sad that a union buster ever felt at home with the Democratic Party.
    NEW: Pool report today from a fundraiser revealed that Biden donor and event host, casino magnate Neil Bluhm, told donors that and “don’t represent the Democratic Party” that he supports.
    26 replies277 retweets1,074 likes
     
     










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