John, did you see what happened in Kansas, of all places?! The State of Kansas overwhelmingly rejected the fringe forced birth position this week, and it didn’t happen by chance: Gov. Laura Kelly made it happen. Then 247 of you stepped up since yesterday to offer her your support in thanks. THANK YOU!!! If we want our elected officials to be brave, we need to prove to them that they’re not going out alone. We need to show them that we have their backs. ANY AMOUNT HELPS SEND THAT ENCOURAGEMENT! If you haven’t gotten the chance yet though … please join me — AND 247 OTHER BLUE AMP ACTION TAKERS — in supporting hero, Laura Kelly. Please give whatever you can afford, $2, $5, $10 or more. What she accomplished yesterday was nothing less than inspiring. Astounding. Let's finish the job and re-elect her. It was actually incredible. Kansas is a red state, to be sure, but luckily they already had abortion rights enshrined in their Constitution. So the right-wing troglodytes put a referendum on the ballot--purposely on a primary day when turnout would be low so they thought they could get their flying monkeys to the polls anbd turn Kansas women into forced-birth baby containers. Well, their plan went very wrong. Turnout was up around 15%! And in a state Trump won by 15 points, the abortion ban was rejected by a whopping 18 points! Not just a defeat, but if you'll excuse the British expression, an arse kicking. But this WOULD NOT have happened if Governor Laura Kelly, a Democratic Governor in a very red state, didn't put it all on the line to come fighting for rejecting the forced-birth referendum. This, my friends, is what COURAGE looks like. |