I just donated to the presidential campaign of Jay Inslee: jayinslee.com.
Not because I think he will win the nomination, but because he is the one candidate that is focusing on my number one issue: climate change. It has been the top of my list for decades. Finally, someone is putting it front and center. All the other issues are important, but climate change is essential.
I want his ads on television. I want him to qualify for the debates. I want him to make sure Democrats understand that this is the issue, as Inslee says, that is the most important challenge of our generation.
And it is fixable. We just need someone out there with the megaphone to get the country headed in the right direction. Give Inslee that megaphone, money for ads, polling that will get him in the debates. He doesn’t have to get your primary vote. He just needs to be there, making that case front and center, because we need someone to do that. Everyone else in the race is sort of there, but not loud and clear and focused. And Inslee has a good record on climate to run on as Governor of Washington.
If you are afraid for your children and grandchildren, help this guy keep talking about it.
UPDATE: So glad to see him on Rachel Maddow. This time around I want candidates to say: “It’s the climate, stupid.” We need that kind of focus, right now.
(If you don’t remember or to young to know, the Bill Clinton campaign in the 90s said “It’s the economy stupid.” That was a way of focusing that campaign.)