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Hey Boomer: Are You in the Fight?
Saving democracy means we belong on the front lines
As elders, we have a gut-level understanding of what’s at stake
Here’s what I see on the Zoom call as I prepare to do phone banking:
A grid of faces, each in their little rectangles, all earnestly staring into their laptops and trying to figure out whether or not they’re on mute.
All of them are around my age.
We’re not doing this for fun. It takes more chutzpa than is native to many of us, myself certainly included, to call people we don’t know who often live in other parts of the country.
This weekend, I was calling folks in New York’s Nassau and Queens counties. The special election on February 13 will determine who fills the vacancy left by deposed fabulist George Santos, and we’d like to see Tom Suozzi get that seat.
It would do a lot to restore some sanity to the House.
Last November, I was calling into Ohio to get out the vote in support of Issue 1 — the amendment to the state constitution that would enshrine the right of citizens to make their own reproductive decisions, including abortion.
