[1]Cori Bush

John,

Last week, Team Cori shared our first post-election priorities survey to
help inform an agenda for the final sessions of the 117th Congress and the
start of the 118th Congress beginning early next year. A major focus of
the next few weeks is going to be setting objectives and organizing
priorities, and your feedback is enormously helpful. Here are the results:

#1: Environmental Justice

It’s no surprise that over a third of survey respondents cited
environmental justice as their #1 priority. The climate crisis threatens
us all and will disproportionately impact our nation’s most vulnerable
populations.

Cori introduced the Green New Deal for Cities to fund an expansive array
of community-based climate and environmental justice jobs and projects —
including wind power procurement, clean water infrastructure, and air
quality monitoring — by giving funding directly to city, state, local,
Indigenous, and territorial governments.

Working alongside environmental justice organizations, Cori is going to
ensure the climate justice movement has a strong voice in Congress.
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#2: Protecting the Right to Vote

Like so many of us, survey respondents are very concerned about protecting
the right to vote. Election deniers, conspiracy theories, voter
intimidation, and political violence promoted by violent white
supremacists are in the headlines too often.

Our democracy has been under attack by Republican state legislatures
across the country, members of Congress, and others holding federal
office. Their attempts at voter suppression and disinformation frequently
target Black, brown, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities. It’s
on us to take action to make sure that every single person has the right
to vote and to be able to participate in our democracy.

#3 Economic Justice and Medicare for All

With just a percentage point between them, economic justice and Medicare
for All came in at a near tie — likely because they’re tied together.

Regular, everyday people are being left behind by a system that
prioritizes the whims of the rich over the basic, human needs of our
community. Whether it’s wage theft and stagnation, inflation, skyrocketing
health care costs, or the for-profit exploitation of people at the pump —
Cori’s taking action. She’s been fighting for at least a $15 minimum wage
since well before she stepped foot in the People’s House. Now that she’s
in Congress, she’s voted to increase the minimum wage and for the PRO Act
to protect workers' rights to unionize.

And Cori’s approach to health care comes from firsthand experience: as
both a registered nurse and someone who has lived the consequence of being
forced into immoral debt simply for seeking out and receiving needed
medical care.

Cori believes that health care is a human right. No one should be denied
health care based on age, gender, ability to pay, or health
status/pre-existing condition. She is leading us towards joining every
other industrialized nation and passing Medicare for All, an
accomplishment that would cut costs and increase quality and access of
care for everyone.

All of these issues — and more — will need to be addressed by the 118th
Congress next year, and each is a key priority for Cori. We’re eager to
get to work, John. [ [link removed] ]Will you
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In solidarity,

Morgan Lowe
Political Director, Team Cori


 


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