Indivisible Bainbridge Island (IBI) Newsletter
October 3, 2020
Welcome to Indivisible Bainbridge Island's summary of things you can do right now and in the upcoming and future weeks to prepare for Nov. 3. 31 days to go!
Write postcards to voters!
We only have until end of day Friday to get this Senate race done - tell your friends!
This is a surge - we send cards to voters re. Senate seats in batches to volunteers in the states so that they are sent by them with local postcodes, and we need the cards to get there on time.
We are focusing on the states with races that could flip control of the U.S. Senate: they are all close. We are now out of addresses for IA, NC, SC, TX, AK and GA. Yay! Please come and pick up a set or two of 10 postcards for Dr. Barbara Bollier running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Kansas! Dr. Barbara is running in a close race and postcards might just help her win! It's looking good. We will also put letters asking people to support other races on the table soon. Please email holly@hollybrewer.com for more information.
You can also write postcards in support of important Democratic candidates in our own state. We have postcards for Gael Tarleton running for Secretary of State and Carrie Hesch running to represent our neighboring district, LD 26.
Forums with: Tarleton & Hesch. More about Tarleton & Hesch.
Each packet has postcards, instructions and stamps. The table on the front porch of Holly's house at 8824 NE New London Ct (off Finch) has everything you need! Come and get a highlighter and get to work!
Questions? Email holly@hollybrewer.com
The Census
Encourage everyone you know to check with friends about filling out the census. Especially in undercounted groups. There's still a long way to go, and if folks aren't counted, representatives aren't allocated, money isn't budgeted, and resources go elsewhere. October 31 is the cutoff. NPR.org
Monday 5-6:30 pm Virgina Mason Takeover by CHI
This is a Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Indivisble event, BINKI.
Please join us to learn about the proposed takeover of Virginia Mason by CHI. This could endanger millions of people's access to reproductive health care and end of life care.
Guest Speakers: Senator Emily Randall, Leah Rutman and Marc Auerbach.
More details Please register in advance
Online Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/848379479#success
Recordings of previous zoom meetings - including last week's with ERACE, the Kitsap Equity, Race, And Community Engagement Coalition: https://www.indivisiblebainbridgeisland.org/media-and-zoom-recordings/
Thursday Oct. 8 Meeting With Sens. Murray and Cantwell's Staffers to Find out What They - and We - Can do if Trump Refuses to Leave Office
Let’s meet with Casey Duff of Senator Cantwell’s office and Colleen Bryan of Senator Murray’s office. We will talk about what the senators – and we – will do if Trump tries to stay in office and deny the results of the election. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89831570676
Meeting ID: 898 3157 0676
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More details
10 things you need to know to stop a coup: WagingNonViolence.org
Commit to protecting democracy if the president contests the election: ChooseDemocracy.us
Things you can do to resist
- Right now
- Plus, there are daily actions you can take at the bottom of this e-mail because an action a day keeps the dictator at bay.
Accessible Voting Units (AVU) are available at the Elections Division office 18 days prior to an election and at Vote Centers on the Saturday and Monday before Election Day and on Election Day.
Before Election Day: October 16 - October 30 Kitsap County Auditor - Elections Division 619 Division Street, Port Orchard, 98366
From the first day of voting through the Friday before the election. 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Friday Saturday, October 31 and Monday, November 2, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Election Day: Tuesday, November 3, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Kitsap County Administration Building 619 Division Street, Port Orchard, 98366
Marvin Williams Recreation Center 725 Park Avenue Bremerton, WA 98337
Poulsbo Fire Station 911 NE Liberty Road Poulsbo, WA, 98370
Make sure that friends register to vote! https://votewithme.us/
Register to vote online (requires a Drivers License or ID). Or print a registration form and mail it in. Online and mailed-in voter registrations must be received by Monday, October 26.
In-person registration must be complete by 8 pm on November 3. You can register to vote in person in Poulsbo, Bremerton and Pt. Orchard. Special hours on Election Day. Details here.
Make sure your ballot is arrives on time: drop it in a drop box before 8 p.m. on Nov. 3. Find locations here.
You can also track your ballot submitted ballot online to make sure it has been received.
This newsletter was prepared by Indivisible Bainbridge Island members, Holly Brewer and Kathy Wallace.
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In case you missed it
There are Trump supporters disrupting early voting in Virginia: NYTimes.com
Watch this presentation by Clean and Prosperous America about reaching important undecided voters: CleanAndProsperousAmerica.org
The first vice presidential debate will be on Wednesday: MarieClaire
The presidential debate schedule - in case it goes ahead... ABC13.com
The history of WA vote by mail: SeattleTimes.com
What his tax returns show about Trump's disastrous tax returns: NYTimes.com
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Sign / sign up:
Reject the nomination of Barrett for the Supreme Court: FaithfulAmerica.org
We need a resilient climate future: EveryAction.com
Protect financial aid for students: DailyKos.com
There is race equity training throughout October: WAProgressives.org
WA Democrats have online volunteering opportunities: WA-Democrats.org
Donate to a fund that contributes to many flippable seats: SwingLeft.org
Commit to protecting democracy if the president contests the election: ChooseDemocracy.us
Listen / read / watch:
Forum
League of Women Voters forum on referendum 90: TVW.org
The Bainbridge Police Dept. Town Hall: FB
10 things you need to know to stop a coup: WagingNonViolence.org
A video of the right wing folks driving through Bainbridge to get to the rally in Portland last weekend: FB
The rally they were going to: Reuters.com
The rally planned to outdo them on Bainbridge at 2 next Saturday: NextDoor.com
Be a vote mobilizer: build a team of 10 elegible voters in key battleground states: MoveOn.org
They are asking for donations to pay for masks for the Womxn's March on October 17: ActBlue.com
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More at https://www.indivisiblebainbridgeisland.org/events/
Mon., Oct. 5, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Join BINKI and panel to learn about the proposed CHI-VM merger
Guest Speakers Senator Emily Randall, Leah Rutman and Marc Auerbach
CHI Franciscan and Virginia Mason are in the process of merging but this will actually be a takeover of VM by CHI. Catholic medical groups are required to adhere to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (“ERDs”). CHI Franciscan will enforce ERDs strictly once they have taken over Virginia Mason, putting the medical needs of our community second to the ERDs. This proposed merger will result in more than 50% of all hospital beds in the state being under the control of a Catholic medical group. Residents of Washington have a right to access health care in which the religious beliefs of one group are not forced on everyone else.
Wed., Oct. 7
Vice Presidential debate
Thurs., Oct. 8, 1:30 and 6:00 pm
Utilities and Transportation Commission hearing on Puget Sound Energy's proposed sale of Colstrip, PSE's Montana coal-fired power plant
Washington's Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) requires all Washington State utilities to remove coal-fired electricity from the power grid by 2025. PSE wants to meet that requirement by selling off Colstrip to a company that will run it for another 20 years. The Sierra Club is organizing people who care about climate change and the environment to speak against the sale. Tell the Utilities and Transportation Commission "Shut it down, don't sell it off"!!!
Mon., Oct. 12, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
BINKI: Hear from Kevin Jones about Legislators
Kevin Jones is with Vashon Indivisible. Over the years, he has grown to be our regional expert on upcoming elections, and which seats we can most effectively tackle. He will lead us through the game plan to take back America at the local, state and national level.
Thurs., Oct. 15
Presidential debate
Mon., Oct. 19, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Join BINKI and Rep Drew Hansen for Cocktails and a Legislative Update
Representative Drew Hansen will teach (via Zoom) a class in how to make a basic cocktail- his choice. As we enjoy our cocktails together, we will talk about how to push forward progressive policies in this political moment. More information will be provided before this event so that you will have the ingredients on hand to join in.
Drew Hansen has been representing the 23rd district since 2011. He is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School.
Thurs., Oct. 22
Presidential debate
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Email Senator Cantwell: Phone: (202) 224-3441 Fax: (202) 228-0514
Email Senator Murray: Phone: (202) 224-2621 Fax: (202) 224-0238
Email Rep. Kilmer: Phone: (202) 225-5916
- Contact our senators and tell them they are going to have to fight to hold Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Supreme Court seat open until after January 20. Our Democratic senators are going to have to everything in their power to prevent the appointment of another radical justice to the Supreme Court. Democratic senators are going to have to be willing to add justices to the Supreme Court or impeach some that are already there, such as Clarence Thomas who flouts tradition by advocating for right-wing causes.
- Contact our members of Congress and tell them to hold public hearings on whistle blower, Dawn Wooten’s claim that a doctor contracted by ICE in Georgia has performed unnecessary hysterectomies without the consent of the patient. Rep. Jayapal intervened to prevent one victim from being deported. More than 170 members of Congress joined her. Hopefully Rep. Kilmer was among them. Read about it here.
- Write postcards! We only have one more week to get this done - tell your friends! We need 4 senate seats to control the Senate.
This is a surge - we send cards to voters re. Senate seats in batches to volunteers in the states so that they are sent by them with local postcodes, and we need the cards to get there on time. Contact Holly at holly@hollybrewer.com for more details. We are focusing on the states with races that could flip control of the U.S. Senate: they are all close.
- Contact our senators and tell them to co-sponsor S.4012/H.R.7197, the RESTAURANTS Act of 2020 and contact Rep. Kilmer for co-sponsoring H.R.7197. This bill temporarily establishes and provides funding for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, from which the Department of the Treasury shall make grants to eligible food and beverage purveyors. For the grant program's initial period, Treasury must (1) prioritize awarding grants to marginalized and underrepresented communities, and (2) only award grants to eligible food and beverage purveyors with annual revenues of less than $1.5 million. Further, an entity that received a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) may not apply for or use a restaurant revitalization grant for the same expenses for which the entity received the paycheck protection loan.
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