EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for Nov. 9, 2020

                November 8, 2020

            EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for Nov. 9, 2020

Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for November 9, 2020! We successfully voted out Donald Trump! We voted out a president who was impeached for abuse of power, lost the popular vote by 3-5+ millions twice and who continued to be relentlessly unkind and demonized us in words, actions and policies. 

Take a long moment to acknowledge and celebrate our accomplishments, joy and relief as well as to process the stress, grief and harm that his presidency has caused us.

Our fight is far from over, unfortunately: former representative of the 49th District, Darrell Issa, has been elected to our 50th District. Here is a man who continued to support Donald Trump and who failed to hold Trump accountable for any of his long list of abuses of power. Our goal will be to remind Representative-Elect Issa that he answers to us as his constituents and we do not welcome his support of Donald Trump.

In our Escondido City Council races: District 2 is still too close to call with a margin of 584 votes (3.4%) between the top-2 candidates with ~2,378 (12%) ballots left to be counted.  While the results for the other districts are unlikely to change although competitive: District  3 has a margin of 1,528 (12.4%) with 1,513 (11%) ballots left; and District 4 has a margin of 2,880 (18.6%) with ~2,235 (13%) left.

Lastly, consider supporting voter outreach organizations such as Black Voters Matter, Fair Fight, and The New Georgia Project as they get the vote out for Georgia’s Runoffs Election.

Actions | Contact Info for Elected Officials | Tips for Communicating with Public Officials
Election

Read-up on The movement to defeat Trump in 2020: The people and events that shaped the effort.
Read-up on The CA50 race that is sending Darrell Issa back to Congress carries lessons and Morning Report: Dems Take County Control (on Kristin Gaspar who continued to Donald Trump and lost her re-election).

Federal COVID-19 Response

Read-up on U.S. economy faces severe strains after election with Washington potentially paralyzed and United States tops 100,000 new coronavirus cases in a day for first time.
Contact Senator Feinstein and urge her to pass additional COVID-19 relief such as proposed by the HEROES Act. See Tell your Members of Congress: Fight for the Emergency-Relief We Need and Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.

Local COVID-19 Response

Read-up on Día De Los Muertos Ofrendas Honor COVID-19 Victims and San Diego County Moves Toward Dreaded 'Purple' Tier Of COVID-19 System.
Contact Supervisor Gaspar and urge her caution about reopening San Diego County too quickly without sufficient testing and contract tracing capacity and when our positive cases are not contained (7.4 case rate and 14.1% increasing hospitalizations). 

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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