Just watch his first campaign video and you’ll see why I found myself drawn to write a story about this absolutely compelling candidate:
If you use Twitter, please RT this right now and help spread the word about Jason Westin, MD:
With candidates like Jason Westin, MD the Democratic Party needs only the Base to rise up and organize this year to do what the Media keeps talking about. Because a Blue Wave is NOT something which will just happen.
Listen up!
No matter how GREAT our candidates are? All the money in the world won’t help help them unseat the Republicans who are right now sitting in a vast majority of seats in Statehouses and the United States Congress.
You know what will?
YOU and everyone you know getting out there and working your asses off for candidates like Jason Westin, volunteering right now to help their campaign get the word out in their District before the primary season is upon us.
Volunteering with your local League of Women Voters (find yours here: https://www.lwv.org) to work Voter Registration this spring and summer. Because there a huge number of possible voters out there, just sitting out election after election. More than 35% of the eligible voters in American have NEVER turned out to vote, for more than a century.
Over 35% of those who CAN vote, just never do. So why not volunteer some time and help your candidates reach those people and turn them out in 2018 and teach them that VOTING is fundamental to a good and decent nation.
Great candidates like Jason Westin don’t stand a chance if the Democratic Base just keeps talking about how much we’re going to win in 2018 — and don’t get out and start doing the hard work which will make those hopes turn into reality!
So find a candidate running right now where you live (check in with your County Democratic Party and if you don’t know who or where they are, start here: State Democratic Party links). Your County Party Chair will have a list of people running for local, state and federal offices. Volunteer time is the best gift you can give a local candidate, because no one knows your neighborhood like you do (except maybe your precinct Captain/Precinct Committee Officer #PCO).
Not all volunteer time is knocking on the doors of strangers (lots of people don’t want to canvass, don’t worry, a lot of other people DO), some of it (and an important part of it) is data entry and co-ordination with non-profit groups as the campaign gears up for primary season.
Delivery of yard signs is also a needed volunteer action.
So get out there and volunteer some time NOW for a candidate who could become YOUR representative to Congress or your Statehouse or County or City Council: all levels of government affect your life, so why shouldn’t you want good and decent people in those seats, too?
If you live in the 7th Congressional District in Texas
Inland from the Gulf Coast in the western portion of Harris County, I’ll let Jason tell you why you should support and help him win this seat in 2018:
WHY AM I RUNNING TO REPRESENT US
(from his campaign website)
It was a difficult decision to make, and one that my wife and I struggled with. She is also a doctor and cancer researcher, so she understood that running for office would mean making some tough sacrifices. Eventually I realized that, while I wouldn’t be able to take care of patients as an elected official, I would be advocating for them in a different way.
I still love my job – I’m not moving into politics because I don’t want to be a doctor anymore. Yet, I feel that we need people with experience in health care and research to find solutions to the problems we face. I didn’t build my medical career to try to transition into politics, but I think my medical career will serve me well in that transition.
If you live outside the district? Consider a donation via ActBlue.
Finally, keep in mind that voting is not something everyone just does, and it’s going to take the efforts of all of us to help those who don’t vote, do something different this year!
Help register voters
Help Canvass for your candidates local to federal
Help GOTV from now until general election day
Help fund-raise either locally or online
Even if you can’t contribute, you can share your candidate’s message and put in front of people who can and will donate
There are a million jobs to do in every single race, be someone who gives of their time to do one or more of them, I promise your efforts will be appreciated and acknowledged.