Sunday, September 22, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



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    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...
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    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.
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    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
  • If the climate was an oil field, we would have already rescued it and protected it
  • Counterpoint: Being able to breathe is good for the economy
     
  • Read between the lines here: Republicans seem extremely nervous about the possibility of defeating in the Democratic primary 👇🏻
  • Today, 3 of of my favorite Democrats hung out in Colorado: and
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    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.
  • 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.
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    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.
     
  • 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
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    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
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    It’s just so frustrating you want to take away my right to be on hold with Aetna.
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    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.
     
  • 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.
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    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.