Interesting two days coming up
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I was contacted by a guy who held a Senate-confirmed post in the Trump Administration (as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA). A few years back he was diagnosed with Alpha-1. He wants to help the cause.
He’s a good guy, background as a fireman who rose through the ranks, first locally then state-wide, then went on to lead emergency management in several (red) states before getting tapped by Trump to be the Grand Poobah of first responders. He’s about my age, he first noticed symptoms after spending months “very deep into the California wild fires” (his words) as an out of state volunteer.
So for the next two days, he and I will be hitting up Republicans in congress, gathering more signatures. He’s got Senators and Congressmen from both sides of the isle on speed dial. But we’re focusing him on Republicans since those are more of a challenge for us and he’s got the bona fides.
Should be an interesting couple of days.
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As others have said, good luck also.
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Damn today went well. I have some stories he passed along that I’ll tell later.
We got two members to say yes during our meeting, which never happens. Normally they at least have their staff do due diligence. We’ll get more signatures from today in the next week.
One yes from today was the chairman of the armed services committee. We got a photo op with him, which I’ll share later.
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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@89th said in Interesting two days coming up:
Good stuff. I know it's a "Long" shot, but bipartisan support is always good.
Is Jon's issue partisan?
@Horace said in Interesting two days coming up:
@89th said in Interesting two days coming up:
Good stuff. I know it's a "Long" shot, but bipartisan support is always good.
Is Jon's issue partisan?
No I was using that as a forced way to use a pun Jon might recognize. Anyway, it did sound like their access to republicans was harder to navigate.
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Damn today went well. I have some stories he passed along that I’ll tell later.
We got two members to say yes during our meeting, which never happens. Normally they at least have their staff do due diligence. We’ll get more signatures from today in the next week.
One yes from today was the chairman of the armed services committee. We got a photo op with him, which I’ll share later.
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You know, I didn’t notice it while there and when I looked at the pic I thought it was W. But you’re right, it’s a portrait of him.
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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Funniest moment - we found ourselves in an elevator with 6-7 other guys, all middle aged in suits. One of them quipped “a whole lot of billable hours in this elevator right now”.
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
