Description: Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24) is hosting a town hall meeting in Santa Barbara to answer questions directly from Central Coast residents and provide an overview of legislation the 116th Congress has put forward in its first 100 days of session. Carbajal looks forward to hearing about the top priorities of his constituents.
This town hall meeting is free and open to the public.
Date: Thu, April 25, 2019
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
Location: Santa Barbara County Education Office Auditorium 4400 Cathedral Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110
People across the country are refusing to stay silent. You can use Indivisible’s special guide to demand your member of Congress takes action, and then on June 3, you can join the March for Truth.
Indivisible Ventura showed up to support our sister districts for die-ins to express our anger about Congressmen’s votes to repeal ObamaCare. Read news items here, here, here, and here.
It’s time to celebrate! We’re accomplishing much more than we can see while we make our daily action calls, march with others, participate in town halls, and resist. We all get sad with so much bad coming at us so…
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Pro-Affordable Care Act demonstrators outside of Julia Brownley’s Town Hall
Although there were only 150 seats, Congresswoman Brownley’s aides managed to fit everyone into the meeting room to form an audience of over 200 encouraging supporters for the ACA Town Hall last night.
Before you go to the ACA Town Hall tomorrow night, please read the action items on the event itself from 2.18 and 2.19 if you haven’t done so already.
Now, after you’ve gotten your evening game plan – inside or outside, letters, questions and signage prepped, it’s time for a little pre-meeting ACA information review.
OK, you didn’t get a seat, now what? Well, we have an agenda for you:
– Still come! News crews will film and interview the crowds outside.
– Bring: Positive signs, American Flags, positive attitude.
– Feed the media: If you’re outside, find a reporter, ask to tell your story. This is important!
– Opposition: Don’t feed them. Don’t talk or physically react to them.
– Bring your stories: We’ll collect letters, postcards, etc. outside.
– Know your facts: District #26 has had a 43% decrease in uninsured since the ACA took place and 28,800 of our friends and neighbors are insured under it.
– Take pictures and videos to share with Indivisibleguide.com and with the press.
OK, you did get a seat inside, so here are some reference materials:
– Watch the video.
-Your job isn’t to convince Ms. Brownley, she wants this too. But she needs to listen, and to gather supporting evidence to take back to Washington.
– Be a storyteller. Incorporate your own personal story in your question. Keep in mind your audience is as much your neighbors and fellow town hall attendees as it is the MoC. Be honest, be vulnerable, and tell stories that matter.
– End the story with a concrete, verifiable ask. The best asks or clear, actionable for the her, and easy to verify whether she followed through or not. For example: Instead of “Will you fight for me?”, ask her “Will you commit to voting against any loss of ACA coverage?”
– Don’t settle for talking points or canned responses.
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