EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for August 23, 2021
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for August 23, 2021! Mail ballots for California Gubernatorial Recall Election have been mailed to all registered voters. Check your voter registration, check where’s your ballot or register to vote. Plan to vote before or on September 14, 2021. Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Monday, August 23, 2021, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Escondido Independent Redistricting Commission via Zoom or In-Person at Escondido City Hall, Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #4 on Census Legacy Data Update.
- Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. No agenda item of note. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Thursday, September 2, 2021, 3:20 PM - 4:30 PM, 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM or 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: California Communities of Interest Input Meeting for Imperial & San Diego County via Teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at videossc.com here. Communities of Interest Input may also be submitted online at Draw My CA Community.
- Thursday, September 2, 2021, 6:00 PM: San Diego County Pre-Mapping (Communities of Interest) Public Hearing for District 3 via Zoom (scroll down to 9/2/21 for link & passcode) or n-Person at Escondido Chamber of Commerce, 720 N Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Communities of Interest Input may also be submitted online at Community Builder Tool.
California Gubernatorial Recall Election
- Read-up on Mail Ballots Go Out to Registered Voters for Gubernatorial Recall Election and Opinion: There Is a Problem With California’s Recall. It’s Unconstitutional. Choice Quote: “Imagine that 10 million people vote in the recall election and 5,000,001 vote to remove Mr. Newsom, while 4,999,999 vote to keep him in office. He will then be removed and the new governor will be whichever candidate gets the most votes on the second question. In a recent poll, the talk show host Larry Elder was leading with 18 percent among the nearly 50 candidates on the ballot. With 10 million people voting, Mr. Elder would receive the votes of 1.8 million people. Mr. Newsom would have the support of almost three times as many voters, but Mr. Elder would become the governor.”
- Vote! Mail ballots went out on August 16, 2021. Drop off your mail ballot via USPS or at a mail ballot drop-off location or vote in-person. Early in-person voting has started from Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Registrar’s office and from Saturday, Sept. 11 through Tuesday, Sept. 14, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at a polling place near you or the Registrar’s office. Track your ballot at Where’s My Ballot. See EDC 2021 Key Dates for Recall and EDC How to Vote PowerPoint Guide from 2020 Election.
Census & Redistricting
- Read-up on Escondido Indivisible’s Communities of Interest Input: How to Keep Communities from Being Split or Underrepresented During Redistricting.
- Read-up on Five [CA] Census Findings You May Have Missed, San Diego Grew More Diverse Over The Past Decade, Census Data Show, Increasingly, More Latinos Say They Don't Fit In Census Boxes and San Diego’s Vietnamese Community Is Booming – and Wants Redistricting to Show it.
- Submit your Communities of Interest Input for San Diego County Redistricting at Community Builder Tool and to Center on Policy Initiatives at bit.ly/SDCR_COI.
- Submit your Communities of Interest Input for California Redistricting at Draw My CA Community.
COVID-19 & Economic Inequality
- Read-up on County eviction moratorium quietly expires.
- Read-up on Rage over vaccine, mask mandates boils over during county COVID-19 meeting and County Supervisors Meeting Devolves Into Name-Calling, Profanity Over Public Health Mandates.
- Contact the Board of Supervisors and ask for the reinstatement of the county eviction moratorium given the ongoing economic recovery, pandemic and resurgence of COVID-19 cases in San Diego. Express also support for vaccine and mask mandater recommendation.
- Contact Representative Issa, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to federally pause eviction given the ongoing economic recovery, pandemic and resurgence of COVID-19 cases and legislation such as S. 53/H.R. 603 to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla are co-sponsors of S.53. See Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $15.
- In Related News: read-up on Health Experts Ask Biden To Make Enough mRNA Vaccines To Vaccinate The World and Imperial County Has One Of California’s Best Vaccination Rates. Here’s Why.
Escondido Indivisible is a grassroots group dedicated to affecting changes in our local community. Our website is at EscondidoIndivisible.com, and our sister group is at Escondido Indivisible on Facebook. Send us links and comments at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com and @EscInd50 on Twitter. And feel free to forward our newsletter to interested parties! If you were forwarded this letter, you can subscribe here, and check the archive here.
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