The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. I turn it over to jessica how we urned it over to a juggernaut. Thanks so much. Ok, great. The line is open. The juggernaut is powered by a lot of coffee and a lot of hard work. I appreciate everyone coming here today. Im the president of the dlcc d announcing our flip 2020 campaign. And we flipped 10 chambers from red to blue and did that since Donald Trumps election and flip red to blew and why state legislatures matter. So we will talk about the dlcc. We are charged with winning americas state legislatures. For me, this is personal. In the 2010 election cycle i was the National Field director and junior staffer and i saw what happened in 2010. In the last 28 days, i was sent
What a progressive government should focus on. Former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , Samantha Power looking at the Progressive Agenda as it relates to National Security. Democratic legislative Campaign Committee president jessica post discusses the states the committee will be targeting in the 2020 election. Liketing states pennsylvania, arizona, and texas. Hello. Good morning. Im the d. O. C. National press secretary and welcome you to our first press event. Having a room full of reporters is a milestone and attention that the we werent getting. The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. Without taking any more of your time, i will turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we
Welcome you to our first Major Press Conference at the d. L. C. Headquarters. Having a room full of reporters and National Coverage of an event is a milestone for us. And quite frankly its attention that the d. L. C. Wasnt getting two or three cycles ago. The major driver of our growth has been our president jessica post who i have the fantastic job of introducing today. Jessica has spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space and is a master resource on state legislatures. To quote a politico piece published last night, they wrote, steering democrat vati to win back state legislative powers jessica post, an operative who is little known outside Democratic Campaign circles and has spent the last five years turning the once sleepy d. L. C. C. Into a juggernaut. So without taking any more of your time, im going to turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we turned the dlcc into a juggernaut and our plan to win more state legislatures in 2020. Thanks so
We went to keep you updated on what is happenin mr. Chief jut please the court. Dirict one is not a racial gerrymandering. Rather, the General Assembly largely preserved at from the cotitutional benchmark plan. Th panelcknowledged that the General Assembly pursued a political goal of increasing district 1s republican vote share. It achieved that both right moving democrats out of the district and republicain it itical, not racial data,deify republicans and democrats. First, the panel failed to enforce ternative map requirement. Circumstantial case like this,nly such an alternative can disentangle race and politics. Second, the racial target theory hyper entangles race and politics and makes no sense. The panel believed the generals General Assembly needed a racial target to achts goal. But the racial targets is nothing about voter turnout, nothing about the predominant majority of voters think dominantly White Charleston county and also is irreconcilable with district 1s cent electoral
Its like fitness in the way you say to yourself, do i really have to be stuck with this body . Do i want to do something about it . This is the time. These elections starting 2018, 2020, what happens in 2021 when lines are redrawn, this will define the United States, i think, for the next 30, 40, 50 years. Join us as we take resistance to the ballot box. Gerrymandering is drawing district lines in a way that benefits one Political Party or another. We all know the idea of gerrymandering, going back to the original gerrymandering, has do with districts that look abusive. The stranger the shape, the more we have an intuition that somebody is trying to do something. The word comes from 1812. Its weird that we call it gerrymandering he signed into law a map in massachusetts which created a funny shaped district which to many people looked like a salamand salamander. The term gerrymandering springs from that and a cartoon that criticized him. Theres a standard rogues gallery of Congressiona