Democrats Need A Crash Course in Sales and Sound Bites
We Are The Party of Fairness and Facts Not Fears and Lies.
QUICK READ: Democrats need to present our accomplishments and strengths more clearly than we have in the past. So too, our Members of Congress must speak to successes and party unity rather than allow the GOP to control the discourse and define us.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
BACKGROUND
We need our Members of Congress to promote the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris administration and speak to the broader principles for which Democrats stand long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow either the GOP or the media to define us.
We are the party of fair elections, social justice, and reproductive freedom. We build infrastructure and use the federal government to solve problems around health care, climate change, and affordable housing. We invest in critical federal agencies to avoid foreclosure, expand access to higher education, and reduce student debt. We are also the party of child tax credits, pandemic relief funds, and job creation. We believe in the rule of law and have confirmed more federal judges in a single year than any administration since the Reagan era. We rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline permit, the Muslim ban, and the racist 1776 Commission. We support “Dreamers.” We believe in science.
We have restored dignity to politics after many disgraceful years. What we are not is an obstructionist party of cynics who endorse violence and engage a daily circus of rhetoric in service to a wealthy few.
ACTION One: Call the Senate.
Script for Oregon Senators
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
We need our Members of Congress to do a better job of selling the successes of the present administration long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow the GOP to define us nor rely upon the broader media to expound upon and celebrate our accomplishments. I implore you to begin this campaign immediately.
Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
We need our Members of Congress to do a better job of selling the successes of the present administration long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow the GOP to define us nor rely upon the broader media to expound upon and celebrate our accomplishments. I implore you to begin this campaign immediately.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
You must reject the violent rhetoric of the GOP and put an end to years of destructive obstructionist politics. Serve your constituents in these grave times of need.
ACTION TWO: Call the House.
Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
We need our Members of Congress to do a better job of selling the successes of the present administration long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow the GOP to define us nor rely upon the broader media to expound upon and celebrate our accomplishments. I implore you to begin this campaign immediately.
Script for Cliff Bentz (OR-02)
Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
You must reject the violent rhetoric of the GOP and put an end to years of destructive obstructionist politics. Serve your constituents in these grave times of need.
Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
We need our Members of Congress to do a better job of selling the successes of the present administration long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow the GOP to define us nor rely upon the broader media to expound upon and celebrate our accomplishments. I implore you to begin this campaign immediately.
Script for Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
We need our Members of Congress to do a better job of selling the successes of the present administration long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow the GOP to define us nor rely upon the broader media to expound upon and celebrate our accomplishments. I implore you to begin this campaign immediately.
Script for Kurt Schrader (OR-05)
Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
We need our Members of Congress to do a better job of selling the successes of the present administration long before the midterms are upon us. We cannot allow the GOP to define us nor rely upon the broader media to expound upon and celebrate our accomplishments. I implore you to begin this campaign immediately.
ACTION 3: “GOOD TROUBLE”
Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, make some “good trouble.”
Join Indivisible Oregon.
Demand Justice is working to rebalance the Supreme Court. To get involved in this fight, click here.
Learn about persuasive language and communication research at the Zoom ASO Movement Briefings every second Wednesday.
Join the campaign to hold the House and Senate at GiveNoGround.org
Work to protect democracy in the House by replacing retiring US Representative Peter DeFazio with another Democrat, replacing Democrat Kurt Schrader, the “Manchin of the House,” with a progressive, and electing a Democrat in Oregon’s new Congressional District 6.
Demand your primary news source stop creating false equivalencies and just report the truth.
Check out the Poor People's Campaign Readies 'Massive, Nonviolent' Effort to Save Democracy
Outside of Portland? Check out COIN Oregon.
Center for Common Ground has a Reclaim Our Vote campaign for the Texas Primary! Make calls to Black registered voters in Texas, urging them to vote in the upcoming March 1st Primary. Register for phone banking here!
Rally inconsisent Democratic voters to vote in 2022 with Progressive Turnout Project | Feb, 2022 | Medium
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FURTHER READING:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-01-19/op-ed-one-year-presidency-biden
