liked in a after I my private practice and I became a legislator I was in the Arizona State senate for a while and my colleagues elected me majority leader of the Senateand that was the first time in the United States that a woman held an elective held a leadership Post in A
the US population. So I think it's very easy for US tech companies to rail against, you know, nasty European legislators and nasty British legislators and nasty Australian legislators , but now it's much muchcloser to home and the stakes are an awful lot higher for them. And I was looking at the the the filing from the
Early that morning, Kujawski saw himself on the front page of the Boston Globe, to which he'd given an interview about his own thought process. A legislator finds himself tugged in two directions, it was called. It talks about his meetings with his priests, the governor, and the Speaker of the House.
So that's the power of the personal story, and we, as a campaign, have done that with legislator after legislator in Massachusetts. And then in every part of the country that's been at the heart of explaining this cause to the American people and to our lawmakers--
And I don't know-- I would dare to say that billions of people around the globe were able to pay attention. because legislators create this policy.
But the best ambassadors, the best advocates, the people that really share with the country, with legislators , with decision makers, with judges, with prosecutors, with defense lawyers, with everyone what this work is all about are our clients, the exonerated.
they'll demand from the State Department to protest. The Soviet ambassadors will be called in down in street in-in Paris and in Washington, demand. American legislators will pass, they pass special legislation connecting freedom of immigration with all the trade interests of the former Soviet Union. And that is how the struggle was built.
So I may say, "Yeah, that policy sounds like a really good idea." Am I willing to go do something to advance it? Like- Call a legislator or go advocate or testify? Maybe not. So part of the challenge we have is motivating and activating people who say, "Yeah, I think this policy is a good idea."
insurgencies, right? These are insurgent candidacies. We're talking about no name recognition for a state legislator that was entirely propped up by local Wisconsin DSA chapters. I mean, these people they didn't they didn't have a lot of
We are the largest voting bloc. We are the future legislator So it's this very inspiring moment for all of us. And then on the same side, at the same time-- At the same time.
laying in their own shit and piss. The human being's legislator that is not human beings who watch their names, their languages, their goddesses and gods, the Ark of their dances and beats of their songs, the majesty of their dreams, their families snatched up and stolen-- disassembled and discarded-- and despite this,
Everywhere that the public dollar intersects with food we have a problem-- jails and institutions, the way we feed and care for our elderly in assisted They do that legislator scorecard.
Or with neighbors when you don't know how they're going to respond and you still have to live next door to them. With your legislator when the last thing most people want to do is to sit down and talk about anything personal with their legislator . Particularly not in the Cambridges and Bostons, but out in rural Massachusetts and in rural parts of any state, and working-class communities.
ever was but my view is it's not the same I share the view of Dennis Thompson of Harvard that the legislator 's Integrity today is greater than at any period in our past the problem we face now is not members of Congress trying to feather their own nest it's not the
Yeah, I think we have a number of examples. Indiana was obviously another place where Republican legislators said, "We don't really want to do this right now." But there are other states that quietly shelved redistricting. Mhm.
And she sat with me. How do you convince legislators to view these activist projects as nonpartisan or bipartisan, especially
is going into your baby's body and staying, what would the mom say? And the legislators tended to vote for Californians for Fire Safety rather than business, firefighters, scientists, and the public.
He said that legislators cannot invent too many ways to subdivide property.
or to call your local legislator that represents where you live and say, you should vote yes for this.
Is it to write to a local legislator and say, "Support these changes in the farm bill?" Is it to volunteer in Red Hook at their garden?
and also getting together with legislators , getting in their face if necessary, to get these critical things apart, then we will have done what we need to be doing.
And we've talked to over 50 legislators in the last few months about restoring Pell Grants in prisons, which the House has already
drawing the horrifying gaze of legislators , judges, censors, cultural commentators, and the media.
And I started out telling these legislators about all of the stats and all of the statistics and all of the facts.
Yeah, FBI. It was probably Jeff Sessions-- So can we get enough legislators to say we can't allow this to happen anymore.
Everywhere that the public dollar intersects with food we have a problem-- jails and institutions, the way we feed and care for our elderly in assisted I believe that if we push our legislators -- that's why I like Tom Colicchio's group.
You want them saying-- you want the legislators to say, how can this be?
And they've been very active lobbying legislators on capital here.
Russell: There are places where legislators are trying to make it a life time form of surveillance, yes. And no -- I mean there are challenges,
announcements then he paused to let the legislators speak John Dingle the longest serving member of the House of
of other political tools to contact your legislatores , to weigh in on issues of the day, to organize with other people around you on anything that you care about politically, and certainly
But for us, one of the things we care deeply about is opportunities where everybody can have an action, whether they own guns or not. A lot of people are intimidated to contact a legislator to testify, et cetera. So one of the things we are really working on is normalizing conversations around safe storage.
And they expected law in nature because they believed in the legislator ." In other words, the faith that these scientific geniuses had in God, far from hindering their science,
Everywhere that the public dollar intersects with food we have a problem-- jails and institutions, the way we feed and care for our elderly in assisted But the moment we actually have a food policy and one legislator loses their job because we don't like the way they dealt with it,
Well, a legislator , John Kavanagh, in Arizona, did not like the fact that there had been this bill passed in Phoenix.
And then you look down literally over the shoulders of your legislator to see what's going on on their desk. Power comment to those legislators that people
So what that means is the federal government and legislators and so forth have been promoting more access and opportunities to go
And we had the opportunity to meet with our legislators .
And actually being able to talk to my legislators .
Casino legalization in various states-- Many of the legislators wanted to give these casinos licenses out for free.
But I think that these congressmen and these state legislators , they're so busy that they don't have time to understand anything very clearly.
But as I watched my parents connect with these legislators , I realized that my job wasn't to offer the most cogent case.
Because many of the activists have been pushing hard against legislators , against people like Jennifer, and I, and others saying that we're out to, kind of, exclude Asians.
So a lot of local and state-based legislators and electeds.
There doesn't seem to be a constituency for the legislators for somebody who's accused of a crime.
And they are right to be shaming and embarrassing those legislators who cannot get behind what the majority of Americans want.
And the sensible solutions are out there for people. But somehow they're either not cool enough or our legislators don't take them seriously. There's a giant problem.
We need to be there talking to our legislators .
being proposed and say these people lose their jobs and the legislators can't bring themselves to authorize the
because in many cases you know they are male legislators Etc so we've been pretty active on that front too and so