Chicken Dave? … NO!
Chicken Dave.
… the insatiable and execrable Republican Dave Trott, who made millions by harvesting tears and dollars from Michganders struggling to pay mortgages. When he refused to listen to constituents, we put a chicken on a podium to mock him. Maybe you remember the picture: A chicken, 3 members of the local organizing committee, and a farmer gather around the podium to call the press conference to order. Where was Dave Trott? He chickened out.
Chicken Dave later decided to quit — Nothing to do with all our protests, of course.
We do NOT need another one-percenter in congress kowtowing to the urine brick in the White House.
The Trumpelganger? … NO!
Haley’s opponent, who funds her own campaign, is not a bad person, but she is deplorable, loathsome, odious, despicable, and contemptible, and, like a good trumpelganger, she:
- Plans to repeal the ACA. ✔
- Chaired the sexist rotten pumpkin’s campaign in Michigan in 2016. ✔
- Supports every single one of the orange toadstool’s policies and everything he’s done. ✔
What’s a trumpelganger? A portmanteau formed from the words trump and Doppelgänger. A trumpelganger is essentially a clone of our White House resident, someone whose policies are identical to his. We like the connotation of “member of a gang.”
We do NOT need another one-percenter in congress kowtowing to the urine brick in the White House. (Who said that?)
Haley Stevens — YES!
Yes, she’s a woman.
Haley Stevens is the progressive candidate in MI-11, the congressional district just north of mine.
- She worked in Washington as Chief of Staff on Obama’s auto bailout operation. ✔
- Tech savvy, she has led “innovation programs across the country, helping small and medium-sized manufacturers grow” by harnessing new technology. ✔
- She impressed many (including me) when she spoke at Detroit’s March for Science in 2017. Good speaker, organized. ✔
Why MI-11?
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After the inauguration in 2017, my wife and I knew we had to act. Through SwingLeft, we discovered that the congressional district immediately north of our own was the most vulnerable Republican district susceptible to takeover by a Democrat because Dave Trott had won his district with a margin of victory smaller than any other Republican’s elected in Michigan in 2016. We helped organize by making maps and signs, I marched, stood, and sang, and got ignored. I was in a post-march circle when the farmer suggested she could bring a chicken to a town hall to mock Dave. Thus his Chicken Dave’s epithet was born.
How can you help Haley Stevens?
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