EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for March 30, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for March 30, 2020! Stay safe and healthy! See EscInd's COVID-19 Info Post.
Escondido City Council District 2
- Read-up on Escondido council vacancy to be filled by appointment; plus a catfish controversy. Choice quote: “The Escondido City Council will appoint a replacement to fill the District 2 seat vacated earlier this month when Councilman John Masson died following a lengthy illness. // The new council member will serve only until the November election at which point a special election will decide who should fill out the remaining two years of Masson’s term.”
Census 2020
- Share info about Census 2020: What Is the 2020 Census?, Ways To Respond, Questions Asked and Sample questionnaire in English and Spanish/Español.
- Take the Census 2020 if you have already received an official invitation from the Census Bureau (invitations started being mail mid-March).
COVID-19 Local Response
- Read-up on County OKs Moratorium On Evictions For Residents, Small Businesses, Newsom orders California coronavirus eviction ban and Coronavirus mortgage relief: Banks act fast for unemployment.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and thank her again for putting forward an eviction moratorium during COVID-19 crisis. Tell her that the county should consider mortgage and rent relief as well.
- Contact Escondido City Council and ask them to consider eviction, foreclosure, mortgage and rent relief for the city.
COVID-19 Federal Response
- Read-up on The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life and The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19.
- Read-up on Here's what's in the $2 trillion stimulus package — and what's next, House passes $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, Coronavirus checks, direct deposits are coming. Here's everything you need to know and Trump chips away at Congress' role in coronavirus relief oversight.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and thank them for voting to support H.R.748 (CARES Act or $2 Trillion Stimulus Package). Tell them that you’re concerned about President Trump’s intended noncompliance re: oversight of $500 billion corporate bailout funds. See Indivisible’s What To Tell Your Members of Congress to Do About Coronavirus and People Over Profits.
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