I'm a member of the Fairfax, Virginia school board.

This week, I was proud to join my colleagues in renaming Robert E. Lee
High School. It will now be John R. Lewis High School. We replaced a
confederate general with a civil rights icon!

Fairfax used to be a bastion of right-wing elected officials. It's worth
taking a step back to think about how the right people were positioned at
the right time to make progressive change.

When running for office, I attended a PCCC candidate training. Many other
progressives groups had my back. Years of hard work, and an increasingly
diverse electorate, helped flip Fairfax.

To make progressive change, we need to invest in progressive
infrastructure and groups doing the hard work.

[ [link removed] ]That's why today, I want to ask you to invest in the future by donating
$4 or more to The Black Male Voter Project.

As we continue to live in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, and as
we honor the life that John Lewis led, it seems fitting to invest in the
only national organization whose sole purpose is to increase Black men’s
participation in electoral politics.

Its founder, Mondale Robinson, says:

We have created a better way to campaign to Black men...We know that our
current way of doing politics has not increased the number of Black men
who vote, and we know this is true because nearly half the Black men that
are registered to vote in this country have not voted in five consecutive
elections. This fact shouldn’t be misconstrued as a critique of Black men,
because we know that voting is a habit formed by resources spent on it.
And since no one has been prioritizing Black men, progressive policies
fail and progressives lose at the polls.

[ [link removed] ]We will need every vote to change our country's future this November.
Please help this piece of progressive infrastructure do the hard work in
2020. Donate here.

If you're running for office, or are thinking about running for local
office, I recommend you sign up for the PCCC's training and resources
[ [link removed] ]here.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Karl Frisch (follow me [ [link removed] ]@KarlFrisch)

 

 

 

 

 


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