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FEDERAL ACTION ALERT – October 23, 2022
Produced by the Legislative Committee of the Coconino County Democratic Party and Democrats of the Red Rocks While our focus needs to continue on GOTV, here are a couple of quick actions that you can take to help ensure that Congress prioritizes unfinished business before it adjourns. ENCOURAGE OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO WORK TOWARDS PASSING […]
Continue readingFEDERAL ACTION ALERT – September 25, 2022
Produced by the Legislative Committee of the Coconino County Democratic Party and Democrats of the Red Rocks THIS WEEK’S ALERTS: Demand our reps pass the Respect for Marriage ActNOW!; Insist our reps support the Afghan Adjustment Act!; Make sure our repsresist ANY attempt to further privatize Medicare or Social Security; Ask that therecommendations of the […]
Continue readingFEDERAL ACTION ALERT – September 18, 2022
Produced by the Legislative Committee of the Coconino County Democratic Party and Democrats of the Red Rocks THIS WEEK’S ALERTS: Demand our reps support the Reproductive Freedom forAll Act!! Insist Congress pass the President’s budget request to increase fundingfor the Social Security Administration; Demand legislation to cap the price ofInsulin for ALL!!A. Get our Senators […]
Continue readingHappy Anniversary SSA
By our choice of candidates this fall, America will decide whether it wants to keep the Social Security Act, which was signed into law on this day in 1935. Thanks to historian Heather Cox Richardson for providing the material for this post. It is imperative for Americans to understand what life was like before the […]
Continue readingFEDERAL ACTION ALERT – August 7, 2022
Produced by the Legislative Committee of the Coconino County Democratic Party and Democrats of the Red Rocks THIS WEEK’S ALERTS: The Senate must immediately pass the Respect for Marriage Act; Demand that the Senate PASS the Reproductive Freedom for All Act!!; Insist that our Senators resist the sneaky Mitt Romney attempt to destroy Social […]
Continue readingFederal Action Alert 3/7/21
FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN: email to https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ or leave a message on the comment line at (202) 456-1111. Re: Failure to sanction killers of Jamal Khashoggi. Proposed script/email: “I am profoundly dissappointed that Pres. Biden has disregarded his campaign promise to hold Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince accountable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Letting him […]
Continue readingTrump’s Plan to Bankrupt Social Security’s Dedicated Funding Streams
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, establishing a system of old-age benefits and unemployment insurance. A year earlier, in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt had sent a special message to Congress promising a plan for social insurance to protect “against the hazards and vicissitudes […]
Continue readingSocial Security Positions Crucial in Congressional District 1
Is your calendar circled for the day your Social Security check is deposited into your bank account? Do you plan your bill paying – and retired life in general — and retired life in general — around that all-important date every month? If you answered yes, you should take a close look at the stark […]
Continue readingRogers Social Security, Medicare plans dangerous
I am highly concerned about candidate Wendy Rogers’ plans for dismantling and/or privatizing Social Security and Medicare. These are both plans to which I have contributed during my entire working life, and now, as a senior citizen on a fixed and limited budget, I count on them! I’m sure that most AZ seniors count on […]
Continue readingMiddle class left paying for cuts to social programs
Wednesday’s editorial on the gutting of social programs was the clearest presentation of the march to destroy the social safety net that I’ve seen to date. NPR ran a program Wednesday morning focused on the 50-year plan of the Kansas Koch brothers to reduce government and drown it in the bathtub, according to one of […]
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