4-4-2022 Newsletter

Carol Newman, Joan Herman, and Josie Peper joined others to rally in Astoria for INCO's 2017 Presidents Day celebration.

KEEP INCO ACTIVE AND EFFECTIVE Donate to INCO in April, and Indivisible national will MATCH your contribution.   Your contribution to INCO this month will promote informed voting and support a vigorous campaign and election season to elect progressives to office in 2022. Use this link so Indivisible will double your contribution, up to a total of $500.  Only donations given through this ActBlue site will be doubled by Indivisible.  Thank you for supporting INCO.

Join the COINversation: State Treasurer Tobias Read Candidate for Governor of Oregon Monday, April 11 at 7 p.m. via Zoom  Register and submit your question for Tobias Read here.

YOUTH AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE LEGISLATURE We're delighted to see younger people active in government and politics! Check out this interview on YouTube with Logan Laity (pictured above), the Democratic Party candidate for the state legislature, House District 32. He's a small business owner and community organizer in Tillamook County.

Graph from "Strong Job Gains in March Keep a Flame Under the Recovery," New York Times, April 1, 2022 GOOD GOVERNMENT AND AMERICA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY "Biden is on a winning streak; he is doing a masterful job managing the U.S. response to the Ukrainian war; he has presided over the largest job-creation boom of any president; he has secured passage of two major pieces of legislation during his first year in office; and he has appointed dozens of federal judges. And, if you haven’t noticed, he is speaking with renewed vigor and confidence in his press briefings." — Robert Hubbell, Substack newsletter, March 30, 2022 "The U.S has added 1.7 million jobs between January and March, and unemployment is near an all-time low of 3.6%. As employment has risen, employers have had to raise wages to get workers. So, wages are up 5.6% for the year that ended in February. "Inflation in the U.S. is the highest it’s been in 40 years at 7.9%, but those high numbers echo other developed countries. In the 19 countries that use the euro, inflation rose by an annual rate of 7.5% in March, the highest level since officials began keeping records for the euro in 1997." -- Heather Cox Richardson, Substack newsletter, April 1, 2022

STEADY OURSELVES "Each human act of support to others is one that helps heal our world. Even now, with so much anxiety and chaos destabilizing our country and beyond, we can grip firmly onto what is good and just and use it to steady ourselves for the work to be done." —Dan Rather, "Steady," on Substack, March, 27, 2022

WHOSE VOICES WILL PEOPLE HEAR? You can provide a needed progressive - liberal point of view. You don't have to be an expert, just someone who cares about an issue.  WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR!   LTEs in the Astorian from now until November can inform voters and promote voting. Write a few sentences or more, up to 250 words. Send to editor@dailyastorian.com, along with your name, address, and phone.

LOCAL CANDIDATE INTERVIEWS ON YOUTUBE Check out candidates in this virtual forum recently hosted by Clatsop County Democrats. Candidates include: • Mark Kujala, Nathan Pinkstaff, Liane Thompson, and Pam Wev - Clatsop County Commissioners (nonpartisan) • Logan Laity, the Democratic candidate - State House District 32 • Melissa Busch, the Democratic candidate - State Senate District 16. INCO has endorsed Pam Wev  for re-election. If you'd like to display a yard sign to re-elect Pam, sign up here. Donate or volunteer at her website. This election is May 17. Final date to register to vote is midnight, Tuesday, April 26.

HAPPENINGS  Tuesday, April 12 - INCO South County Community Group Zoom meeting, 6:30 pm - 8 pm. Please RSVP to Kathleenannmacdonald@yahoo.com thru Monday, April 11 for your Zoom link. Saturday, April 23 - INCO Astoria-North County Community Group Zoom meeting, 11 am - noon. If you are new to this group, contact incoregon@gmail.com by April 22 to get the Zoom link. INCO Warrenton Community Group Zoom meeting. TBA. Contact incoregon@gmail.com for more information. Every Friday - INCO Write to Voters (WTV), via Zoom, 3-4 pm. Informal chat while we write letters and postcards to voters. If you are new to this event, contact incoregon@gmail.com to get the Zoom link.  Write To Voters - Elections and issue campaigns need you year-round. INCO encourages you to sign up to write to voters at www.postcardstovoters.org. For general Get Out the Vote letter campaigns, sign up at Vote Forward. For prepped postcards, stamps, or information, contact incoregon@gmail.com.

INSIGHTS  “When nothing is sure, everything is possible.” -Margaret Drabble, novelist and biographer

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