EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for Sept. 14, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for Sept. 14, 2020! Check your voter registration (57 days until Election Day) and take the Census if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 72.6% response rate so far). Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, 9:00 AM: Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here Agenda includes item #06 & 07 on SDC COVID-19 response update, item #23 on update from Office Of Equity And Racial Justice, and item #24 on Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board Report. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
- Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM: NSDC NAACP’s Meet the Candidate Forum (Escondido). Register here at Zoom.
- Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Agenda not posted as of Sept. 13, 2020, 8:00 PM. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Saturday, September 19, 2020, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM: 4th Annual Environmental Leadership Summit.
Future Events
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Escondido Chamber and Times-Advocate's CA 50th District Candidate Forum.
- Thursday, October 1, 2020, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Escondido Chamber and Times-Advocate's Escondido City Council Candidate Forum.
Immigration
- Read-up on Nearly 9,000 migrant children have been expelled under pandemic border policy, court documents say.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express concerns about continuing reports of inhumane treatment of children asylum seekers in the U.S.
Election
- Read-up on Escondido Democratic Club’s How to Vote in the Fall 2020 Election.
- Plan how you will vote for the upcoming election. Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Early in-person voting will also start 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.
Postal Office
- Read-up on Mailed prescription drug deliveries via USPS may have had 'significant' delays, Senate report finds.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.R.2382 and S.2965 to repeal the requirement for the USPS to “pre-fund retirement health care costs for 75 years into the future” which had placed an undue burden on the USPS. Ask them to also support H.R.801 to “maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID-19 health emergency”. Note H.R.2382 and H.R.801 passed the House. See Tell Your Representative to Act Now to Save the US Postal Service, Demand the Federal Government Support the United States Postal Service and Tell Congress to Save the United States Post Office.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Federal Jail Downtown Now Has One of the Country's Worst COVID Outbreaks.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Mayor McNamara and urge them caution about reopening San Diego County too quickly without sufficient testing and contract tracing capacity. San Diego County is still regularly reporting ~15 community outbreaks in a 7-day period for the ~2 months while in Escondido, we now have a total of 2,007 positive cases (1,314 per 100k population and up 69 cases from last week). Our Escondido total hospitalization rate is 81.1 per 100k population (up 5.9), intensive care unit 18.4 (up 1.6) and mortality 17.3 (up 0.7) which are some of the highest in North Inland San Diego County.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on COVID-19 Has Killed Nearly 200,000 Americans. How Many More Lives Will Be Lost Before the U.S. Gets It Right?
- Read-up on Trump admits to concealing true threat of coronavirus and Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19
- 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.
Trump & His Admin Abuse of Power
- Read-up on How Trump Draws on Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Bills.
- Read-up on Whistle-Blower Brian Murphy Says D.H.S. Downplayed Threats From Russia and White Supremacists and Whistleblower accuses Trump appointees of downplaying Russian interference and White supremacist threat.
- Read-up on $2,933 for ‘Girl’s Night’: Medicaid chief’s consulting expenses revealed and Rick Perry Pushed Deals That Helped Friends as Energy Secretary,
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