(he/him) CA Assemblymember AD 25-San Josรฉ. Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair. Corporate-free 1st Indian-American legislator in CA history
#ZEV
#vegan
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#BLM
In a mostly Latino caucus site with 185 voters,
@berniesanders
wins 94% of the vote! Hereโs the Sanders precinct captain going through the process of selecting the 9 delegates for the campaign they have earned with the big win. ยกSรญ se puede!
#NotMeUs
#UnidosConBernie
In the 1960s, the UC system had no tuition, only a $84 annual fee for one of the finest educations in the world. Many benefited from it & it helped make California a major economic force. Thatโs what a free public education does. It is an investment in our students & our economy.
The Sacramento
@berniesanders
office opening was so crowded they had an overflow area outside in the back! And, of course, the crowd is fired up & ready to hit the neighborhoods throughout Sacramento to help win California for the
#NotMeUs
movement! โI believe that we will win!โ
The question isnโt why
@BernieSanders
is doing this. The question is, why isnโt every Democrat Senator joining with him? Itโs always inspirational to see him make his stand on behalf of the people. With so many suffering, all of his colleagues should be standing with him!
In Des Moines when asked to choose their candidate, this heavily Latino caucus made a mass move to
@BernieSanders
with 1st round results:
3 Biden
2 Pete
2 Amy
4 Warren
174 Bernie
California, pay attention!
CA has 495 delegates, IA has 41.
This is how the
#NotMeUs
movement wins!
.
@BernieSanders
making boss moves! I love that Bernie is fighting so hard for the $2,000 payments to families who are barely hanging on or have already fallen off the cliff. Where are all of the Senate Democrats? There should be almost 4 dozen more as engaged in this fight!
This is
@BernieSanders
25 years ago standing up for gay men & women putting their lives on the line and taking to task the bigot & eventually imprisoned for corruption Duke Cunningham. While many Democrats werenโt willing to stand up for the LGBTQ community, Bernie did!
#NotMeUs
@Karamo
@JoeBiden
@BernieSanders
FYI, more Bernie voters voted for Hillary than Hillary voters voted for Obama. A candidate needs to earn all their votes. So, please stop dividing. We need to unite and this message doesnโt help.
I have officially endorsed
@BernieSanders
for President! I believe that my goal as a public servant is to reduce suffering. The candidate most aligned with that mission is Senator Sanders. Itโs also not about a moment, but about the movement. The
#NotMeUs
movement is real! โค๏ธ
Today, Iโm excited to introduce
#AB1400
in order to create a single-payer healthcare system here in California! This is the first critical step necessary to design a single-payer system that works for Californians.
#CalCare
MLK Day gives me mixed feelings. When he lived, MLK was hated by most Americans. That hatred may have been seeded in white resentment, but it grew as Dr. King focused his attention on our unjust economic system & started marching with workers, joining them on strike lines. 1/
โโItโs not a question of whether billionaires are bad people. Itโs we have a made a very weird social decision to allow people to be billionaires before we take care of the public good.โ
@AnandWrites
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I didnโt even start close to the end of the line and didnโt make it all the way to the front with an hour and a half before the
@berniesanders
rally in downtown San Josรฉ!
#notmeus
โThe Forest Service charges Nestle a permit fee of $2,100 per year, but there is no charge for the water.โ
Hereโs a thought. How about we donโt give any company rights to public water for the purpose of them profiting off of putting it into plastic bottles & reselling it to us.
@JaneKim
poured her heart, mind and soul into the
@BernieSanders
campaign as the California political director. I know she has a lot of ride or dies that have been with her since day one. Well, you can add me to the crew because Jane is the real deal! Thank you! ๐๐ฝ๐
Hereโs an image of
@BernieSanders
prepping for a rally in Pennsylvania as he is campaigning hard to defeat the fascist in the White House. Bernie is as decent a man as there is in politics. The shockwaves of the movement he started will be felt for decades.
#NotMeUs
I graduated from law school with 6 digit debt in โ96. I spent well over a decade paying it off. The idea that those with college debt will get their loans canceled? Iโm thrilled about it! We need to root for relief for others, even if it doesnโt benefit us. Great stimulus, too!
I think Dems are wildly underestimating the intensity of anger college loan cancelation is going to provoke. Those with college debt will be thrilled, of course. But lots and lots of people who didn't go to college or who worked to pay off their debts? Gonna be bad.
If this is the response to Jane &
@BernieSanders
walking out to a capacity crowd (with hundreds outside) in Moreno Valley, I expect movement on the Richter scale tomorrow when
@AOC
joins Bernie in Venice! Get there early!
#NotMeUs
When anyone criticizes that a California Single-Payer program could cost an estimated $400 billion a year & asks how weโd pay for it, ask them how & who is currently paying $450 billion for our current profiteering system with millions without meaningful access to healthcare? ๐ค
I agree! Forgiving student loan debt will be a massive stimulus into the economy. Rather than corporate bailouts that donโt trickle down, this will be immediate relief for millions of workers who will spend the money thereby invigorating the economy. Letโs go, Joe!
Joe Biden should commit to forgiving all student debt in his first term.
$1.6 trillion dollars in student loan debt is reckless & unsustainable.
It'll prevent millions of mostly young Americans from reaching financial independence, and funnels wealth rapidly to the top 1%.
This would be a great time to decriminalize marijuana, release everyone currently incarcerated for related crimes and expunge all previous conviction. Thatโs a step towards that promise.
The fact that the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund being extended to cover first responders was considered a major defeat for the GOP tells you everything you need to know about
#MoscowMitch
and the corrupt Republicans who are now in complete submission to
#Trump
Hereโs Jon Stewart smirking at Moscow Mitch following a major victory for 9/11 survivors and activists. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was extended to cover first responders for the rest of their lives, a major defeat for the GOP, who stalled the bill.
#NeverForget
The
#COVID19
crisis has gotten so bad in India. My aunt, who had a non-covid related emergency that required oxygen for treatment, couldnโt go to the hospital because there are no beds and my cousin couldnโt find any oxygen tanks to buy. She died at home untreated overnight. ๐ข
Democrats, you can support your candidate vigorously and still uplift other candidates rather than bashing them.... and, this is how itโs done! Thank you
@AOC
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Juliรกn is a powerful presence in this race. Iโm really proud of him & how he consistently uses his platform to uplift & center issues that are wrongly marginalized, like homelessness+police violence.
Some folks try to make primaries vicious. In truth, weโre all in this together.
It wasnโt the Rodney King trial, it was a trial against the LAPD. It wasnโt the Oscar Grant trial, it was a trial against BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. George Floyd is not on trial. It is the Derek Chauvin trial. He is on trial for the murder of George Floyd.
Iโve never seen this before. I taught at School Without Walls in DC. The fact that
@BernieSanders
went there and spoke to the students about the Chilean CIA-backed coup in 1973 describing greed of corporate interests over the needs of the people is classic Bernie.
#AllendeVive
Here's
@BernieSanders
in 2003 talking about Salvador Allende being overthrown by the CIA and corporate interests.
"A lot of what politics is about is the domination of colonies so that big companies in a given country can take the resources of those countries for their own use."
I have nothing but love for our farmworkers! They feed us. We must continue to strengthen protections for their labor and sacrifice. ๐๐ฝโค๏ธโ๐ฝ
I am grateful to have had a front row seat to this forum and it was amazing to see, hear and feel the massive hall erupt with so much love for
@BernieSanders
yesterday! โค๏ธ
The
@AOC
wing of the Democratic Party is far more of the future than the โJohn Kasichโ wing and far more aligned with where Democrats are and should be and I think it would be wise of the
@DNC
to not forget that, especially in this must win election to take back the White House.
Happy Birthday,
@berniesanders
โ๐ฝ Your impact will be felt for years by the generation of young leaders who are already taking the baton of progressive change and demanding a better world for us all. Thank you!
๐๐ฝโค๏ธ
#NotMeUs
#HappyBirthdayBernie
On January 21st, Congress must begin to get DC Statehood on President Bidenโs desk before summer. The fact that we have over 700,000 people in a city thatโs over 45% black that literally houses our Federal government but is completely disenfranchised is appalling.
#DCStatehood
โThe American people will rebel against this type of oligarchic movement. We are a democracy. One person, one vote. Not a guy worth $60 billion buying an election.โ
@BernieSanders
on the upcoming
@60Minutes
is on point once again.
#NotMeUs
#BernieBeatsBillionaires
Much respect to
@AndrewYang
& his call for a compassionate economic agenda for our nation. When I was in Iowa, some of the kindest people I met were the
#YangGang
crew. Also, cool that he brought in previously disengaged people into the political process.
BREAKING: San Jose curfew tonight. Questions: How are residents supposed to know about this 4 hours before it goes into effect? And, which neighborhoods are going to policed? Who will get warnings, who will get cited and who will be arrested for being out of their home at 8:31?
Citywide curfew takes effect today: City Manager Dave Sykes has implemented a citywide curfew effective today, via a Local Proclamation of Emergency. The curfew will be in effect from 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m., beginning Sunday, May 31 for the next 7 days or until further notice.
LA has the cleanest air in the world. SF follows closely behind. Letโs not forget what is possible and set our expectations for the world we want to live in. Coming out of this crisis, letโs keep moving towards a greener future.
Roberto shared this video from Bakersfield CA. Picking watermelons is already hard work but on this day it was the start of an expected weeklong heat wave where the temps would exceed 100 degrees every day. Remember to stay hydrated and rest as needed Roberto.
#WeFeedYou
Over an hour until the
@berniesanders
rally here in Richmond and there are already hundreds inside with a very long line outside! The Bay Area is feelinโ the Bern!
#notmeus
The Biden administration has announced that it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with severe disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes. The move will wipe out more than $5.8 billion in debt.
A
@nytimes
article in 1924. Those who incite insurrections and attempt to overthrow the government donโt stop because they had a failed attempt. They donโt stop. Their loyal seditionists wonโt stop. There is no place for unity with white supremacist fascists. We must stop them.
Ok, so, I appreciate what
@ProjectLincoln
is doing to defeat Trump... but, remember, theyโre cleaning up their own mess. The Republicans created an environment of bigotry, classism & misogyny. They should not be rewarded with positions of influence in a Democratic administration.
Remember the time Elon Musk thought he was the second coming of Rosa Parks when he was actually born & raised on the white side of Apartheid South Africa, wealthy due to his father owning an emerald mine that exploited the labor of African workers. It seems just like yesterday...
I authored a letter signed-on by 32 colleagues urging the UC to bargain in good faith and come to terms w/their academic workers in order to avert a strike. Unfortunately, the administration failed to do so. We stand in solidarity with the
@UAW
strike at all 10 UC campuses!
It brings me great hope that
#NotDyingForWallStreet
and
#GeneralStrike
are trending right now. Itโs unconscionable that thereโs even a debate about whether we tackle this virus head on and defeat it or let it kill countless Americans so we can get back to business as usual.
โFarm workers are out there every day, continuing to die at very high rates. It is a very critical time to ensure that we protect these essential workers who feed the entire state.โ
Theyโre deemed essential, treated as if theyโre sacrificial.
#TheyFeedUs
Great to join Congressman
@RoKhanna
in supporting
@BernieSanders
for President! Ro has been advocating for bold, progressive change the moment he joined Congress. Ro is in the prominent role as a Sanders campaign Co-Chair. Iโm proud to join the team!
#NotMeUs
#Desis4Bernie
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I will be joining hundreds of delegates including
@RoKhanna
in voting no on the
@DNC
platform because healthcare is a human right and itโs more clear than ever that weโre going to have to fight for it like our lives depend on it. Because, invariably, they do.
#MedicareForAll
"I believe that moving away from a profit-based healthcare system is the moral issue of our time. And in the final analysis, because of that belief, I could not vote for a platform that lacks a clear statement supporting Medicare for All."
@RoKhanna
The fireworks are completely out of control. Thereโs no sympathy for veterans or others with acute sensitivity to sounds of explosions. And, the pets & wildlife. This is sheer torture for the animals. Iโve never heard it this bad before and that says a lot being in San Josรฉ.
Remember, this was the official account of the murder of a George Floyd before the video was released, before people were marching in the streets, before accountability was demanded. Be mindful of that when you see โofficial statementsโโof what happens in police interactions.
As Republicans wrap up the Amy Coney Barrett hearing with plans to vote, Dianne Feinstein praises Lindsey Graham: "I just want to thank you. This has been one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in," she tells him. "Thank you so much for your leadership."
Umm... thatโs not socialism. You must be thinking about the subsidies your family farm gets. The one your family moved from Tulare County to Iowa over 12 years ago. You know the one. You employ undocumented immigrant workers there. That one. Thatโs called hypocritical socialism.
Venture Capitalists are not thought leaders. Theyโre wealthy lobbyists that hide behind a veneer of high-thinking verbiage that guides mainstream thought towards a future that benefits them.
@AnandWrites
on point once again.
Watching Assembly Health Committee from my office. Waiting to walk over to the Capitol soon to present on
#AB1400
because healthcare is a human right.
#CalCare
In 2004, I almost drowned off the coast of Brazil. Even after making it ashore, I was taken to a hospital by helicopter. As the last wave took me under, I saw a shadow above as I struggled to get to the surface. It was a surfer. He saved my life. Thank you for 17 amazing years!
If you ever wondered how so many trees are shaped just right...
Thank you Julian and to all of our farmworkers who bring us sustenance, joy and comfort through their work!
@UFWupdates
#WeFeedYou
Six months ago, Julian was pruning and shaping these pine trees in Orwigsburg PA. Year round work goes into your holiday mealsโ and into your seasonal decor.
#WeFeedYou
Just saw an insurance company tv ad offering insurance to cover stuff not covered by ones primary health insurance. And, I bet the insurance on top of the insurance still isnโt enough to provide comprehensive care?
Multi-payer, multi-layer insurance ainโt it.
#AB1400
#CalCare
About 1/3 of Covid deaths were tied to a lack of insurance.
About 1/3 of Covid deaths were tied to a lack of insurance.
About 1/3 of Covid deaths were tied to a lack of insurance.
Thank you
@RepJayapal
for re-introducing
#MedicareForAll
tomorrow!
NEW REPORT: Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of infections would likely have been prevented under Medicare for All.
87M Americans were uninsured or underinsured before the pandemic. About 1/3 of Covid deaths were tied to a lack of insurance.
Thank you to the San Josรฉ constituents of Assembly District 27 for re-electing me to the California State Assembly! It has been an honor of a lifetime to serve you and I look forward to continuing in my service. ๐๐ฝ โค๏ธ
Breaking: Prop 22 is found unconstitutional by a California Superior Court Judge!! I canโt wait to read the whole ruling with some champagne! ๐ฅ โค๏ธ ๐ญ
โMy medical group refuses to accept MediCal patients, no longer accepts new primary care Medicare patients and does not accept most Affordable Care Act plans. What good is insurance if you canโt find a doctor who will accept it?โ
Access โ Healthcare
I love Peeps and I heard they were union made so I looked it up and learned that when the workers went on strike in 2016 they chanted โno justice, no Peepsโ
I agree with Congressman
@RoKhanna
on this one.
@ninaturner
is needed now more than ever and her voice in framing the need for progressive policies for a campaign that needs to win the White House would be powerful and effective.
I appreciate the Biden/Bernie task forces. One person whose voice we need is
@ninaturner
. I was inspired by her on the trail for
@BernieSanders
. She gets economic & racial justice. She has the backing of the movement & will help lead our country to a progressive future.
Today, we see major corporations like McDonalds, Walmart, Amazon, Uber, etc. produce million dollar ad campaigns celebrating Dr. King. If he were alive, he would be in the marches and rallies continuing to protest with the workers these companies exploit. 2/
Thank you for your solidarity, you have always been my candidate for the US presidency and I hope democrats have the wisdom to nominate a candidate with your worldview. I hope American workers will make you US president.
โThere are countless studies that tell us a single-payer healthcare system is the fiscally sound thing to do, the smarter healthcare policy to follow, and a moral imperative if we care about human life,โ Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose)
#CalCare
#AB1400
Ok, so, my dads hair really has gotten really long and he wanted to lighten up the weight on his head... so, I took the scissors to him! New do, who dis?!
It was an honor to meet you Senator Gravel. It is an even greater honor to follow your model of leading with love, peace and compassion. Rest in Power. โ๐ฝโค๏ธ
#EndAllWars
#RIPSenatorGravel
We are sad to announce that Senator Mike Gravel passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at his home in Seaside, California. He was 91, and had lived the fullest live anyone could have ever wanted. We will miss him every day.
.
@ninaturner
will bring a phenomenal commitment to a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, and free public college to Congress.
I am all in for her. This is an endorsement of conviction for me.