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John,
After last night’s presidential election debate, our electricity here in Northern Arizona went off briefly during our first winter storm. I realized we need to have a serious conversation about what defense means to regular people.
The power outage reminded me of something I’ve been thinking about lately: the vulnerabilities of our communities and our dependence on an antiquated electric grid, which is managed by private, for-profit utility monopolies. These monopolies, like the one serving most of Arizona’s First District, are often corrupted by buying politicians—including my opponent, the sitting congressman. With a power outage, we lose our heat, our water, our ability to charge our devices, and our ability to take care of many mundane—and not so mundane—aspects of our lives.
In 2016, as a council member, I learned Flagstaff had the ability to deliver water to its residents for 44 hours if the power was down. The conservative council’s majority was uninterested in this. It took another two years and a new city council to invest in a back-up power generator. Since then, I’ve been asking people across the country about their city’s preparedness to face power outages, especially as it relates to water. The truth is, your closest city representatives don’t even know what extended power outages means for their communities.
Congress appropriated $716 billion for defense funding. None of that funding goes to building up our communities’ resiliency or to address our domestic vulnerabilities. We need to redesign our electric grid and secure water resources and data systems—all which can and should be done with investments through a Green New Deal. We must shift our priorities away from bombing civilians in the Middle East and propping up a war economy to rebuilding resilient green infrastructure that brings prosperity to our neglected communities.
Help me get to Congress, where I’ll reframe what national security means in the 21st century.
In solidarity,
Eva
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