Impeachment Goes Public & Preventing Future Blackouts
As the impeachment of Donald Trump moves towards a new phase of open, public hearings, it’s critical that we continue to call our Representatives and Senators with our support. Loud and continuing public pressure is vital to success.
Locally, it’s time to move California beyond the cycle of fires, evacuations, and blackouts. Robust community microgrids can provide us with clean and safe power during fire weather, allowing large-grid power lines to be shut down to prevent fires and evacuations, while maintaining essential power supplies with clean, locally-generated and stored energy.
Please join us this week in making calls to our representatives beginning on Monday, using our scripts below. Hate the phone? Resistbot (resist.bot) is your friend.
ALL MoCs
SENATOR DIANE FEINSTEIN
DC phone: (202) 224-3841
SF phone: (415) 393-0707
SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS
DC phone: (202) 224-3553
SF phone: (415) 981-9369
REPRESENTATIVE JARED HUFFMAN
DC phone: (202) 225-5161
Petaluma phone: (707) 981-8967
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE THOMPSON
DC phone: (202) 225-3311
Santa Rosa phone: (707) 542-7182
Children Are Still in Camps
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to ask the [MoC] to continue to fight to rejoin families and get the children and adults out of the concentration camps run by the Trump administration.
Families are still being separated. Children, women, and men are still being held in terrible conditions in what are effectively concentration camps. This is causing them lifelong damage and creating an indelible moral stain on our nation. It has to stop.
Background:
Both Senators
SENATOR DIANE FEINSTEIN
DC phone: (202) 224-3841
SF phone: (415) 393-0707
SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS
DC phone: (202) 224-3553
SF phone: (415) 981-9369
I Support Impeaching and Removing Donald Trump
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to tell the Senator that I support the impeachment and removal from office of Donald Trump.
Yes, he is innocent until you find him guilty. But, frankly, the evidence already public is enough for all to see: Trump has abused his office for personal gain, extorting and endangering an ally for personal gain, insisting that they provide false accusations against a political opponent. The bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors are all in plain sight. Remove him and bar him from ever being elected again.
Background:
https://crooked.com/articles/trump-obstruction-impeachment/
NO Bribing of Senate Jurors
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to ask the Senator to publicly insist that any Republican Senator taking campaign money from Donald Trump recuse themselves from serving as a juror in his impeachment trial.
Bribing jurors is a mob tactic, so it’s not surprising Trump would use it. That doesn’t make it ok. Tell Senators: if you’re taking funds from Trump, you can’t be a credible juror. You must recuse.
Background:
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/31/trump-impeachment-senators-donor-062084
NO on All Judicial Nominees of This (soon-to-be) Impeached President
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to ask the Senator to vote “no” on all judicial nominees put forward by Donald Trump until such time as he is removed from office or is no longer under threat of impeachment.
Trump has proven to be a criminal president. There is no need to respect an office that he himself defiles. Reject his nominees, every one.
Background:
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/trump-judicial-pick-ozerden-democrats-049140
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/steven-menashi-judge-trump-stephen-miller/
Don’t Fall for McConnell’s Election ‘Security’ Scam
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to ask the Senator to vote NO on McConnell’s election security scam.
Mitch McConnell has refused to bring the House’s SAFE Act to the Senate floor for a vote but, stung by his new nickname of #MoscowMitch, wants to bring an alternative bill to the floor instead. The problem is that he omitted ALL election security requirements from his bill, turning it into funds which may be misused to buy hackable voting machines – just what Mitch would want. Vote NO on his “no-strings” bill.
Background:
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1176966761310089216
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/mitch-mcconnell-election-security-bill-.html
Both Representatives
REPRESENTATIVE JARED HUFFMAN
DC phone: (202) 225-5161
Petaluma phone: (707) 981-8967
REPRESENTATIVE MIKE THOMPSON
DC phone: (202) 225-3311
Santa Rosa phone: (707) 542-7182
THANK YOU for Voting for the Impeachment Inquiry Resolution
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to say THANK YOU to Representative [Huffman/Thompson] for voting YES on HR 660, the Impeachment Inquiry Resolution.
I strongly support the impeachment and removal from office of Donald Trump. No president has ever come close to his flagrant and dangerous abuses of office. He must go.
Background:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whats-house-resolution-impeachment
State Senators & Assembly Members
California State Senators
STATE SENATOR MIKE MCGUIRE
Sacramento phone: (916) 651-4002
Santa Rosa phone: (707) 576-2771
STATE SENATOR BILL DODD
Sacramento phone: (916) 651-4003
Santa Rosa phone: (707) 576-2093
California State Assembly Members
District 10: MARK LEVINE (707) 576-2631
District 2: JIM WOOD (707) 576-2526
District 4: CHRISTINA AGUIAR-CURRY (707) 224-0440
Fund Clean & Smart Community Microgrids!
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m a constituent from zip code______ and a member of Indivisible. I’m calling to ask [the Senator/Assemblymember] to create a statewide program to create clean and smart microgrids.
PG&E's blackouts last month were unacceptable and illustrate that we are living with an archaic and dangerous energy system.
Please fund clean and smart microgrids that use local renewable energy with battery storage for safety and resilience. The first community microgrids should be established in high fire risk areas in disadvantaged communities to support critical facilities such as water supply, wastewater treatment, first responders, city halls, schools, and health care centers
Some California local governments have already started developing community microgrids, such as in Oakland, Eureka, and Santa Barbara. These efforts need to expand to other communities immediately. A statewide program that provides the funding and technical support to conduct collaborative, participatory planning processes is also essential.
Community microgrids are the logical next step in California’s remarkable history of energy policy innovation. Please act now to help to create a clean, resilient, more affordable and equitable electricity system.
Background:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/10/28/20926446/california-grid-distributed-energy