Comments by "Virginia Lawler" (@virginialawler7725) on "Send a Message to Mitch McConnell" video.

  1.  Joe Curr  Your post shows only one thing--that you have nothing substantive to contribute to the conversation about how to retrieve, protect and advance our beloved and beleaguered nation. America has had to endure Trump's lies, laziness, lack of education, pettiness, vulgarity, aversion to public service, etc., MANY etc., for 3+ years. He was given so many chances to use our tax money, and even some of his inherited millions, for good. But, he...and his advisers...chose a different path at every opportunity--to help the elite and ignore or hurt the rest of us.
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  2. Illinois native here, thinking about all the time I spent in KY as a child, visiting my sister and her husband, who was with Reynolds Metals in Louisville. Then later as a college student coming for the Kentucky Derby and racing our homebreds at both Churchill Downs and across the river at Ellis. Then later learning about a very different part of KY via the late John Prine's poignant "Paradise" and "Muhlenberg Co." Then, only last year learning about Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his lock on the U.S. Senate, preventing some 400 bills from a Senate vote! The one that that riles me most--after some years with the N.C. Department of Labor--has to anger many of us. It is Sen. Sanders' Federal Minimum Wage Bill, for which he's worked since before 2015. It would raise to $15/hr. the current $7.25 wage, which has never been increased since the legislation passed in 2009. When Bernie started out all the years ago, he had zero co-sponsors. He had 30+ in the Spring of 2019 when it finally passed the House! Of course, it has since languished there because McConnell has blocked it from coming to a Senate vote. One more example of his lack of concern for 40 million of our nation's lowest wage workers. Their situation has even worsened due to Trump's inept management of the coronavirus that has now killed 170,000 of us and shows no evidence of retreating. Really, it would help so many of us--and our beloved nation--if McConnell could--finally--be sent home. #NotMe.Us
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  3. An Illinois native--82 now--I first learned of Bernie in '63 when he was an undergrad activist at the U. of Chicago, protesting school segregation. I, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, went to the library one day just to see what was going on in my beloved home state. There were the Chicago newspaper photos, recirculating now, of Bernie, who had crossed a police line and was on his way to the ground, ankle-locked to a young black woman already on the ground. The NAACP got him out of jail the next day. He helped organize the 1st sit-in in Chicago, at the chancellor's office. He helped organize a busload to DC for MLK's historic March for Jobs and Freedom and "I Have a Dream" speech. Bernie had found his life's work young as a warrior for civil, economic, environmental, gender, racial and social justice...and for peace. The You Tube video, "Bernie & Civil Rights in Chicago," continues to move me...and I recommend it to all, #NotMe.Us #Medicare4All
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  4.  @mrgobble9202  Of course, Senator Sanders is not corrupt. Please provide a cite for your opinion. Bernie was named Man of the Year by two national veterans groups--the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars--in different years. How could you (honestly) believe either...let alone both...of those two major service organizations--with all their vetting procedures--would honor "a corrupt leader"? Didn't happen. On other hand he certainly IS a leader, ever since he was an undergrad student activist at the U. of Chicago in '63, arrested as he protested school segregation. He organized the first sit-in in the city, at the office of the University's chancellor. He organized a busload to DC for MLK's historic March for Jobs and Freedom and milestone "I Have A Dream Speech." He'd found his life's work young as a warrior for civil, economic, environmental, gender, racial and social justice...and for peace. The You Tube video, "Bernie & Civil Rights in Chicago," is worthy viewing. Bernie continued his leadership for #NotMe.Us with election to four consecutive terms as mayor of Vermont's largest city. Since then he's been continually re-elected as the longest serving Independent in the U.S. Congress-- first in the House and now in his 2nd term in the Senate. These few lines only touch the surface of his leadership and service to our country.
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  5. I'm voting for Bernie
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  6. @Nuke 'EmAll About whom are you writing with your awful observation?
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