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[ [link removed] ]Battleground Virginia 2019

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PFAW Member,

PFAW board member Alec Baldwin, who last week joined us on the ground in
Virginia to knock on doors for some of our amazing progressive candidates
and rally campaign volunteers, has an excellent op-ed in today’s USA Today
about the importance of this year’s elections happening in just a few
days.^[1]

[3]Alec Baldwin at campaign stop in VA
Actor Alec Baldwin talks to supporters of Amanda Pohl, candidate for the
Virginia Senate, in Midlothian, VA on Oct. 22, 2019. (Photo: Steve Helber/AP) --
via USA Today

I wanted to share some of Alec's key points. Please read, share, and keep
chipping in with your time and support! Together we’re on the cusp of a
historic victory that could make or break 2020!

On VA as a sign of a coming blue wave (bolding added):  

Two years ago, Democrats came one vote short of flipping the House of
Delegates from red to blue, a sign of the coming Blue Wave that hit the
U.S. House the following year. This year, the urge to finish the job is
palpable among Virginia Democrats, whose field of diverse, youthful,
progressive candidates is at least as strong as 2017’s and possibly even
stronger.

It’s hard to overstate just how much is riding on Virginia’s elections and
how they could influence the ultimate fortunes of Trump and Republicans.
Virginia was always going to be the warmup act for the 2020 elections: an
early gauge of Americans’ appetite to repudiate Trump and Trumpism.

But with impeachment under way, the stakes are phenomenally higher.
There’s just no way a big win for Democrats in Virginia won’t be read as a
referendum on impeachment, and no way the opposite outcome won’t be read
the opposite way. These things have a way of shaping the long-term
electoral narrative. And it might do more than that. It could make a
substantive difference in the 2020 political landscape, not to mention in
the lives of Virginians.

On what’s at stake (bolding added):

If Democrats take the General Assembly, they will control the legislature
and the governor’s mansion when congressional redistricting arrives in the
state in 2021, preventing more abuses of power by the notoriously
gerrymandering Republicans. That will contribute to altering the balance
of power in Washington for years. Not only that, Virginia will finally
have the votes to become the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights
Amendment — putting it on a path to finally becoming the law of the land.

Meanwhile, Virginians would very likely see a higher minimum wage. And the
state would have a real opportunity to pass the gun safety
legislation that the majority of its residents want and that state
Republicans have resorted to disgusting tricks to prevent.

For all these reasons, Virginia deserves the attention of all of us who
are fed up with the bottomless corruption of the current occupant of the
White House and his enablers at every level. It deserves the attention of
all who are sick of contempt for working people, for women, and for the
right of kids to attend school or play on a playground without being
menaced by weapons of war.

I’ve had the opportunity to needle this president with blunt satire, a
time-honored political tool. Of course, that’s not enough. We have to do
more. I have been in Virginia, knocking on doors and doing whatever I can
because this is where we will all make a difference. Right now. We can
shape our future. We can all take part by making phone calls, even if we
can’t actually pound the pavement. If the future of our democracy lies for
now in the Old Dominion, let’s pay attention and get it right.



[ [link removed] ]If you want to help get it right in Virginia next week and set the
table for progressive victory in 2020, please make a donation now to elect
progressives up and down the ballot and flip Virginia blue!>>



Thank you for everything you do and for all your incredible ongoing
support.

-- Michael Keegan, President

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1. USA Today, "[ [link removed] ]Alec Baldwin: To defeat Donald Trump, start with next
week's Virginia elections," October 30, 2019


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