Today I read that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a graduate of Boston University,
which is also my alma mater.
"Small world."
On Tuesday, she tweeted:
Today I saw people voting that are almost never seen in an off-year midterm primary.
Just now, as I'm typing this with 8 minutes left, two young men of color, 20 years old, just walked up to me and said they just voted.
2 yrs ago, the "experts" told me not to bother with them.
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In another primary this week, a former head of the N-Double-A C-P, Ben Jealous,
"pulled out a stronger-than-expected victory...on a night in which progressive candidates in several states edged out more conservative or establishment challengers," according to The Atlantic. Jealous won the Democrats' nomination for Governor of Maryland.
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On policy, Jealous ran to the left of his leading competitor, campaigning on single-payer health insurance, free in-state tuition, marijuana legalization, raising taxes on the wealthy, and shrinking the prison system.
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In the Bronx-Queens NYC district where Ocasio-Cortez won, her opponent outspent her by more than 10-1, while the average contribution to her campaign was $17 per person.
She told CBS News, "There's no way you can write policy without thinking of your donors, if you're taking an insane amount of money (from) special interest lobbies. So by not taking money from lobbyists, by taking money from working-class people, we can legislate for working-class people."
According to the CBSN story, President Trump weighed in via Twitter, calling incumbent Joe Crowley a "big Trump hater" and then writing that the Democrats are in "turmoil."
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi commented, "Let's not get carried away."
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Recently, I went on You Tube and typed in,
jackie kennedy speaking
and when you do that, you get several results opening up below, ending the phrase, alternately, with one of these:
French
Spanish
Italian
Polish
...and we can click on each of these and listen.
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