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YOUR RESISTANCE NEWSLETTER
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10, 2019
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ALERT TO PROTECT THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION!
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Investigation shutdown
NO ONE
IS ABOVE THE LAW!!!!
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MONDAY CALL TO ACTION:
Senate Judiciary
Committee Meeting Feb. 11
The following bill will be heard in
the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, Feb. 11 at 4:30 PM.
Email or call Senator Hutson and urge him to vote in OPPOSITION to this bill.
Include your name and address or
Zip Code so your representative knows you are a constituent.
SB
168 Federal Immigration
Enforcement
This bill prohibits Sanctuary
Cities and threatens, profiles, harasses and detains immigrant families. It
wastes valuable local resources hurting families and local budgets. It corrodes
community trust in law enforcement, drains valuable law enforcement resources,
and makes Floridians less safe.
Contacts
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District
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Last Name
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Email
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Phone
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Committee ID
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6
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Gibson
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(850) 487-5006
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JU
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7
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Hutson
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(850) 487-5007
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JU
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9
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Simmons
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(850) 487-5009
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JU
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12
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Baxley
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(850) 487-5012
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JU
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22
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Stargel
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(850) 487-5022
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JU
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37
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RodrÃguez
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(850) 487-5037
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JU
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MEDICAID
EXPANSION PRESENTATION NOTES
DR
JEN COWART
INDIVISIBLE
ST JOHNS MEETING
February
7, 2019
Dr Jen Cowart, MD, gave a great presentation on Why Medicaid Expansion would be good for
Florida. She offered a data based discussion of not just the morality but
the economic benefit to our state. Principally, our tax dollars are going to
states who have expanded Medicaid, most with no problems in funding and big
outcomes in cost savings and health. In Florida alone, over 300,000 adults
would be covered that are currently in the gap between regular Medicaid and the
ACA/employer insured. Medicaid Expansion would help in these ways:
Early cancer diagnoses
Early and less complicated cases
ending up at the hospitals
Mental health services, including
medication and counseling
Opioid treatment and smoking
cessation medications
Reduces health disparities across
race, income, educational and employment status
Until 2020, the
Federal government offered to pay 100%, costing Florida nothing but our
governor turned it back. Starting in 2020, the Feds will pay 90% with Florida
having to come up with 10%. If Medicaid can be expanded, final savings to the
state in the first year are projected to be $500 million. She used Kaiser
Family Foundation and the Florida Policy Institute as some of her sources. We
will try to get her presentation and post.
Actions to take:
Petition drive, currently underway.
If successful, GOTV for the vote
If successful, any tax increase now
needs 2/3 of the legislature so there’s still work to do
If legislature tries to insert work
requirements, oppose. They are insidious, unhelpful and a barrier to coverage.
Every situation is different.
Medicaid Expansion Petition Drive
Andrea explained
our progress so far and outlined future public actions:
2/9 at both the Main and SE Branch
libraries
2/23 at the Saturday Farmers Mkt
2/16 a possibility, TBD
Contact Andrea
DeGeorge if you can spare some hours. andrea.degeorge@gmail.com
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SWITCHBACK!
See a powerful spoken poem, written and performed by our own Amy Goldin and shot and edited by our great friend, Jorge Rivera:
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THIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11!
THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15!
THIS THURSDAY! VALENTINES TO LEGISLATORS!
We Are, We Are… PERSISTENT!!!
Indivisible St. Johns
Telephone / Post Card Advocacy
Topics and Talking Points February 6, 2019
Videos: O’Connel
cold case investigator mysterious death. VP Pence defends second government
shutdown CBS.
To:
State Sen. Hutson; State Rep. Stevenson or Renner
Sen.
Hutson, FL Senate, Tallahassee, FL 32399
Rep. Stevenson or Renner, FL House, Tallahassee, FL 32399 TE: 850-354-6841
Fracking will be
banned in Florida.
It’s just a matter
of when.
Will you co-sponsor S.B. 146
(senator) HB 239 (representative)?
To:
Joe Jacquot, Chief Legal Advisor for Office of
General Counsel, 400 S. Monroe St. #209, Tallahassee, FL 32399 TE:850-717-9310 ext.0
Ellie
Washtock’s Suspicious Death needs the FBI
Washtock was independently investigating the, Michelle
O’Connell death.
The New
York Times and PBS
Frontline have investigated the connection of the St. Johns Sheriff’s Dept
to O’Connell’s death.
Please recommend Gov. DeSantis request an FBI
investigation.
To: Sen. Rubio, Sen.
Scott U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510 Capitol
operator: 202-224-3121
To: Rep. Michael Waltz or Rep. John
Rutherford U.S.
House, Washington, D.C. 20515
Do you consider Social
Security an “Entitlement”?
For people
paying into the program their entire lives, that is degrading!
It is an
EARNED BENEFIT that needs to be expanded.
To: Sen. Rubio, Sen.
Scott U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510 Capitol
operator: 202-224-3121
To: Rep. Michael Waltz or Rep. John
Rutherford U.S.
House, Washington, D.C. 20515
VALENTINES
POST CARD
Possible hand written notes:
Dear Rep.(or Sen.) ________ Roses are red,
violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and don’t ever hold
government workers hostage over wall
funding again.
…It doesn’t rhyme, senator, (or
Representative,) but you get the point.
Or: Dear Rep. or Sen. _______ You broke our
hearts. (Draw a heart with an arrow through it.) Keep the people’s government
open!
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Email us at indivisible.st.johns@gmail.com
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