NEW MEXICO SPECIAL ELECTION: DEM. CAND. MELANIE STANSBURY.

My name is Melanie Stansbury, and my friend Adam Schiff asked me to reach out. I’m running to keep Deb Haaland’s seat Blue and represent the people of New Mexico’s First Congressional District.

Our special election is just 8 days away, and Republicans are doing everything they can to flip this seat red. If we do not prevail, it would be disastrous for our Democratic House majority, passing progressive legislation, and for New Mexico’s families.

I’m a born and raised New Mexican. I grew up in the heart of this district, playing along the Rio Grande, and attended public schools K-12. I know the challenges our communities face because I grew up in a working family that often struggled to make ends meet. I am fighting to ensure those in the same situation can live a better life. My experiences working in the U.S. Senate, the White House, and now as a State Representative have prepared me to lead and fight for the issues impacting our families.

I’m running for Congress to be a champion for women’s rights, to fight for our public lands, to ensure no child goes hungry, and to make sure we address the biggest issue of our time: climate change.

But to keep this seat Blue, I need your help. With time running out before the election we need every resource possible to fend off Republican attacks. 

It would be the honor of my life to serve the people of NM-01, and I couldn’t be more grateful for your support.

Melanie Stansbury
Candidate for Congress (NM-01)

YOU REALLY DON'T SEE WHY? THAT IS SAD.

TO ALL TRUMPIANS AND REPUBLICANS, 

(SEE BELOW)

LET ME ASK THE FOLLOWING? IF THIS WAS YOUR U.S. REP, VOTED INTO OFFICE

BY YOUR COMMUNITY, WOULD YOU REALLY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY

BUSINESSES, INVESTORS, AND OTHER COMMUNITIES WOULD NOT WANT TO HAVE A

RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU? 

FURTHER, IF THE LEADER OF YOUR PARTY, (DONALD), WILL NOT CONDEMN HER, OR 

THOSE LIKE HER, EXACTLY WHAT FORM OF GOVERNMENT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

ALL  I SEE IS FASCISM, WITH THE "CULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL," AND THE DESTRUCTION

 OF CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES, AS THE RESULT OF ELECTING "CITIZENS" LIKE

 TRUMP AND GREENE.

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FROM THE ARTICLE: 'Evil lunacy': GOP lawmakers slam Marjorie Taylor Greene's comparing House mask mandate to Holocaust.

WRITTEN BY- ALAN SMITH FOR NBC NEWS.

Republican lawmakers blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., over the weekend for comparing the House's mask mandate to the Holocaust.

The Republicans who criticized Greene were among those who either voted to impeach President Donald Trump this year or, in addition, voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was recently ousted from GOP leadership after she continued to refute Trump's electoral falsehoods, lambasted Greene's comparison as "evil lunacy" in a tweet.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., one of three House Republicans who voted both for Trump's impeachment and to strip Greene of her committee assignments, tweeted that Greene's remarks amount to "Absolute sickness."

And Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the comments were "beyond reprehensible."

"This is, I don't even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the antisemitism that we've been seeing in our society today," he said.

In an appearance last week on the podcast "The Water Cooler with David Brody," Greene lamented to a nodding Brody about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to maintain a mask mandate on the House floor because of concerns many GOP members may not be vaccinated.

"This woman is mentally ill," Greene said of Pelosi, D-Calif. "You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."

She was referring to the millions of Jews who were forced to wear a Star of David on their clothes, sent to concentration camps and murdered during World War II. A poll conducted this year showed an increase in antisemitism around the world, as well as a lack of awareness about the Holocaust among adults under 40, 11 percent of whom said they believed it was caused by Jewish people.

A CNN survey this month found that fewer than half of House Republicans would say they had been vaccinated, compared to 100 percent of House Democrats. Greene said recently that Pelosi "cannot force" her to be vaccinated.

The American Jewish Congress called on Greene on Twitter to apologize and retract her comments, saying "such comparisons demean the Holocaust & contaminate American political speech." A Change.org petition to have House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., expel her from Congress had attracted almost 25,000 signatures by late Sunday afternoon.

Greene has come under repeated scrutiny for her past promotion of conspiracy theories like QAnon and for having appeared to endorse violence against Pelosi before she sought office. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., condemned her for spreading "loony lies," and the Democratic-controlled House remove her from committees in February in a vote backed by 11 Republicans.

In an appearance last week on the podcast "The Water Cooler with David Brody," Greene lamented to a nodding Brody about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to maintain a mask mandate on the House floor because of concerns many GOP members may not be vaccinat"This woman is mentally ill," Greene said of Pelosi, D-Calif. "You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."

TIME TO ASK THE HARD QUESTIONS. # 1.

 As you read the Article below, ask yourself the following questions:

- Who benefits the most by part of the Republican Party insisting that the

  2020 Presidential Election was rigged against D. Trump?

 - What has caused the split between the two wings of the Republican Party:

   Those who support Trumps claims, and those who deny them?

-  Do you think that the average Trump Supporter believes his claims because of the 

   quality of the evidence, or that their support is based on willful ignorance, or pure 

   self-interest?

 - Trump claimed that both the 2016 and 2018 elections were also fraudulent,

    yet the only solid evidence of fraud was that the 2016 Presidential Election was

    rigged against his opponent Hillary Clinton. This being the 3rd example of unsupported

    claims, Why are the Democrats refusing to use this information?

  More questions in the future.

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Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene rally in Maricopa County to keep 'big lie' going.

Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene rally in Maricopa County to keep 'big lie' going

On Friday, Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene brought their “America First” road show to Maricopa County, the place that has become ground zero in the Republican effort to keep alive former...

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Add Your Name: Accessible, affordable child care for all.

 

DAVID - Mothers are the backbone holding our communities together and yet they have unreasonably borne the brunt of the pandemic’s impacts day after day. And so, after a year of incredible endurance, mothers around the world are at a breaking point. Mothers, caregivers, and child care workers need our support. They need a government that understands that care work—both paid and unpaid—is just as important to the country’s infrastructure as bridges and roads. Throughout the pandemic, women have been more likely than men to drop out of the workforce or reduce their hours, largely due to care responsibilities. On average, women do three times as much unpaid care work as men and make up the majority of the world’s underpaid care workers. The truth is that moms everywhere have bailed out governments and businesses through their unpaid labor caring for children and other family members during this crisis at the expense of their own wealth, health, and wellbeing. Those employers who don’t offer paid sick or family leave have left so many of us in an impossible position of deciding whether to care for our children or keep our jobs. We can’t have an inclusive and robust economic recovery without an affordable and accessible child care industry and a society that recognizes the critical value of unpaid care work. Join us in calling on Congress to ensure affordable child care is accessible to all >>> If the last year taught us anything, it is that governments and employers see women’s work as dispensable and women’s unpaid labor as a given. Governments and businesses have failed our mothers and caretakers with woefully inadequate policies and protections that have set women’s progress back by decades and will ultimately cost us all with a slower path to recovery. Mothers deserve better. Moms have been supporting our communities, economies, and governments for so long. It’s past time for these systems to support them too. Our mothers deserve this—today and every day.

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