EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for Oct. 05, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for October 5, 2020! Check your voter registration. Early voting starts this week on Oct. 5th and mail ballots will also start going out. We are 29 days away from Election Day. Also, take the Census if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 73.8% response rate so far). Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Thursday, October 8, 2020, 1:00 PM: Library Board of Trustees Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Agenda includes 2019 Library Annual Report. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
- Thursday, October 8, 2020, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM: Escondido Chamber and Times-Advocate's San Diego Supervisors District 3 Candidate Forum via Zoom.
Election
- Read-up on Indivisible San Diego Persist 2020 Voter Guide, Voting In 2020: An inewsource Guide To All The Changes and City of Escondido 2020 Election Local Information.
- Watch Escondido Times-Advocate’s Escondido City Council Candidate Forum Replay and #TBT NSDC NAACP Escondido City Council Candidate Forum Replay.
- Watch Escondido Times-Advocate’s 50th Congressional District Candidate Forum and Politifest 2020: 50th Congressional District Race Replays.
- Plan how you will vote for the election. Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Early in-person voting starts on Oct. 5, 2020: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday starting Oct. 5 at the Registrar’s office and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31 through Monday, Nov. 2 at your assigned polling place or the Registrar’s office. Track your ballot at Where’s My Ballot. See Election Day 2020.
Trump Taxes
- Read-up on Tax Records Reveal How Fame Gave Trump a $427 Million Lifeline.
- Read-up on Trump Paid $750 in Federal Income Taxes in 2017. Here’s the Math, What we know — and still want to know — about Trump’s company, Trump Tax Returns Show President’s Exposure to Foreign Influence and Ethics experts see national security concern in Trump's debt.
- In-related news: read-up on The Kushners’ Freddie Mac Loan Wasn’t Just Massive. It Came With Unusually Good Terms, Too and Melania Trump: Secretly recorded tapes show First Lady's frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations.
Trump Public Health Endangerment
- Read-up on Where Trump went (and who he was with) leading up to his coronavirus diagnosis, Tracing Trump’s Contacts Before He Tested Positive for Coronavirus and Inside the White House Event Now Under Covid-19 Scrutiny. President Trump did not wear masks, he did not socially distance, he did not quarantine when exposed to COVID-19, and he knowingly exposed and endangered the public while infectious.
- Read-up on How the coronavirus spread in Trump's White House, A White House Long in Denial Confronts Reality, Little evidence that White House has offered contact tracing, guidance to hundreds potentially exposed to Trump and Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump.
- #TBT: read-up on Republican Brian Jones [back in August] gets coronavirus, shuts CA Senate (Jones represents Escondido in CA State Senate). Choice quote: “A review of Jones’ social media feeds reveals that he did everything to contract the virus — and to possibly infect others [...] On July 4, for example, Jones attended a “freedom feast” at a San Diego church. The event, a protest against California’s ban on indoor church services, included an indoor meal service. Photos on Jones’ Instagram account show him interacting, face to face and without a mask, with an elderly man. In another photo, churchgoers line up at an indoor buffet. Jones is the only person not wearing a mask.”
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act and for continued funding of testing and tracing. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Tell your Members of Congress: Fight for the Emergency-Relief We Need and Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
SCOTUS
- Read-up on Amy Coney Barrett supported group that said life begins at fertilization and Faith group deletes mentions of Barrett from its website.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to commit to vigorously questioning [Justice] Barrett on everything she’s written and every opinion she’s given, from the ACA to Roe. Tell them that you object to the Senate Judiciary timeline for confirming a new SCOTUS. See also No New Supreme Court Justice in 2020 and Demand Your Senator Refuse To Confirm Any New Supreme Court Justices.
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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