Tag: Indivisible Ventura

Today in “Did that just happen?”: A candidate for public office told a story about cats…

Did Bruce Boyer reveal that he may have overlooked voter fraud and/or committed it himself at the Jan. 23rd Board of Supervisors meeting?

Experts believe that real election fraud remains “vanishingly rare.” Proof? Despite determined investigations and bottomless funding, the hard-right Heritage Foundation, authors of the authoritarian Project 2025, has only located 1,500 instances across the entire nation since 1982(!!!), against literally billion of ballots, to justify their story that voter fraud is rampant in America and their drafting of voter suppression legislation. 

Will the 1,501st addition to their pathetic collection come from right here in Ventura County? Mr. Boyer may have thought he was just teaching us a lesson, but you and our county and state election officials will be the judge. Roll the film!

This excerpt comes from the Jan. 23 meeting. Here is the full video. The excerpt starts at ±4:09:25
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Join in! – We’re translating “Project 2025” – the GOP’s plan to destroy democracy.

Why are we doing this? Project 2025 is the GOP’s authoritarian roadmap to dismantling a thriving, inclusive democracy for all, and Trump’s Agenda 47 will set us on fire!

  • TLDR? We’ve reduced Project 2025’s +900 pages to 4, along with great short videos! Spanish translation at end.
  • TLDR? We’ve reduced Trump’s equally alarming Agenda 47 here. Note! Project 2025 is a prerequisite for Trump to be able to effectively institute his terrifying and corrupt schemes. SCOTUS giving him absolute immunity for crimes against humanity has come in the nick of time.
  • You think this is all fearmongering nonsense? GOP-controlled states are already test-driving Project 2025 agenda.
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Here’s a preview of Trump’s associated Agenda 47 overlay, which we describe here.

More videos below!

An Introduction to the fascism of Project 2025

How to identify fascism.

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Thank farmworkers with (3) actions that make a difference.

Type in your address and find out your pesticide risk in Ventura County here.

Action #1: 12/14/2023 – VENTURA – Attend a meeting! Pesticide Notification Public Hearing In Ventura (4:30 pm) Ventura County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa Hall, 10 West Harbor Blvd., Ventura.

On Thursday afternoon, we have an opportunity locally to speak out for Environmental Justice, calling for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to protect farmworkers (and schoolchildren, and the rest of us!) from fumigant pesticide exposure. DPR is taking comments regarding their statewide program for notification of the application of certain pesticides–we must let them know that their system needs to be more specific than they have planned right now.

Public health data show that the incident of childhood asthma is increasing, and in part that’s because fumigant pesticides are all too frequently applied without us knowing it. We all breathe the same air. We all need to be protected from fumigant pesticide exposure. DPR needs to step up and do that.

  • NOTIFICATION: Demand that the proposed notification system inform the public of the exact location, date, and time that a pesticide will be applied so that adequate protective precautions can be taken.
  • RECOMMENDED SAFETY PRECAUTIONS: Farmworkers need to know if protective clothing should be worn and specific behaviors engaged in to keep their exposure risk minimal.
  • CHILD SAFETY: Schools need to know when to warn families that airborne pesticides are going to be wafting through the environment from nearby agricultural fields, threatening their children’s well-being.
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Trump’s “Schedule F” stands for “Fascism.” You can do something to stop this.

(3) actions, one of which is due by Nov. 17th.

Before Trump left office, he signed “Schedule F,” an executive order to fill the entire executive branch with his lackeys. Biden rescinded it, but without a law, it waits for any GOP president to resurrect a “spoils” system of corruption!

With the backing of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 – the ‘Far-Right Playbook for American Authoritarianism‘, Trump has repeated his threat to “gut the existing U.S. government and ‘install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists’ to take over senior legal, judicial, defense, regulatory, and domestic policy jobs in the civil service.” This would effectively removing any guardrails to his actions, no matter how unconstitutional or destructive they may be. By removing career officials’ protection from forced politicization with “Schedule F, “…Donald Trump is telling us, loud and clear, that he wants to end American democracy as we know it.”

ACTION #1: Call your representatives!

We originally published this post in August of 2022. We have updated the bill numbers and names.
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The Supreme Court’s toothless code of ethics is a joke. Tell your legislators to pass a real one.

See ProPublica’s report on Clarence Thomas’ corruption here (Harlan Crow) and here (Koch Network). The video report is here.

Act now: Call/email your legislators to call out SCOTUS corruption!

Minimal email/call script for representatives: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Rep. [___] to know that we are not falling for the Supreme Court’s new enforcement-free “code of conduct” that continues to privilege wealthy conservative billlionaires over the interests of the rest of us. It also gives a free pass to misconduct that could have affected earlier decisions and discourages recusals in future ones. I want to thank Rep. [Brownley/Carbajal] for co-sponsoring H.R. 926 the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, which creates a way to investigate and disqualify corrupted justices.

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“GOP, obey your earthly masters!” Call them out for their corrupt emergency funding bill.

The party of “Grifters, Oligarchs and Polluters” is up to their old tricks – inserting a rotten core into an emergency bill to serve their masters – the wealthiest 1% and large corporations.

In 2020, they snuck a completely unrelated $170 billion tax break into the pandemic relief CARES Act for the benefit of then-President Trump and 43,000 similar wealthy real estate speculators and hedge fund managers, gifting each of them an average of $1.6 million for that year alone. 

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Join MICOP’s Collective Call to Action – Tell Governor Newsom to Sign SB 435 and SB 831! 

In CA, we understand that our immigrant community is vital to our economy and essential services. Over 20,000 indigenous Mexicans live in Ventura County alone, and of these, 17,000 work in agriculture, doing the backbreaking labor that puts food on our tables and keeps our local agricultural economy strong.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, these farmworkers were logically classified as essential workers by Gov. Newsom because FOOD!!!, but could not access timely and reliable information in their language to access vaccines in California and suffered disproportionately higher death rates as a result. (44.5% of cases and 42.1% of deaths in California). And even if information were available, fear of consequences due to their immigration status kept many from accessing life-saving vaccines and treatment they needed.

There are two bills that would BEGIN the process of fixing this inhumane situation.

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GOP is taking their “War on Women” on the road!

FIRST, Republican state AGs demand out-of-state private medical records to hunt their residents down. NOW, over 50 cities in Texas have made it illegal to use public roads to help someone exit the state to get an abortion. And that’s just the beginning, folks!

On July 19, we published a post warning that HIPAA was not as protective as we thought against the actions of force-birther state attorneys general hunting medical records of those suspected of accessing abortion health care in another state. Now, piling on, over 50 counties in Texas are using their S.B.8 abortion ban’s threat of private civil suits to eliminate travel outside their state for needed care. And other GOP states are looking to copy their model. Just in – Alabama, which has banned almost all abortion, even in cases of rape and incest,  is now prepared to prosecute those who help a woman travel to another state to obtain a legal abortion for criminal conspiracy.

The right to travel freely in America is a right guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution, with the obvious and odious exception of the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave Acts, which also utilized lawsuits as enforcement. No wonder the GOP wants to destroy the teaching of accurate American history! We have data privacy, “right-to-travel” and abortion rights bills to call your legislators about, and a letter to Joe, but the biggest win will be from kicking every GOP legislator out of their offices!

Action #1 – Call your legislators!  

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Reclaim MLK, Jr.’s speech – “We’ve come to cash this check.”  

“…as a first step toward the journey to full equality, we will have to engage in a radical reordering of national priorities.” The check from the “bank of justice” to our Black citizens is 60 years overdue.

Calling things by their accurate names is important. It’s been 60 years since the Rev. Martin Luther King gave his epic speech calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States for a crowd of 250,000 at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The only thing Republicans can remember, however, is one line about a dream. Renaming it may help them remember both the true nature of that speech and that the racial disparities that MLK, Jr. railed against have only gotten worse due to government policies. (see EPI report: tinyurl.com/60-years)

  • “We’ve come to cash this check” vs. “I Have a Dream.”

Action – Tell Congress it’s got 60 years of progress to make up for! YOU who have friends/family in RED states – have them call their legislators too!

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Tell Congress to support the Fossil Free Finance Act

It’s the weirdest thing…

  • On the one hand, banks profit by lending us money to buy homes. To build hospitals. To create communities.
  • On the other hand, banks profit by lending hundreds of billions to a fossil fuel industry that contributes to making those same homes uninsurable. That makes us sick or kills us. That destroys our communities.

You’d think that the banks would notice that one of their activities was actively destroying the other, but apparently government intervention is necessary to stop their endlessly expanding mobius loop of profit extraction.

Action #1 – Tell Congress to support the H.R.2443/S. 1138 – Fossil Free Finance Act

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