The Nancy Pelosi Way by Christine Pelosi

Author:Christine Pelosi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510755857
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2019-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Calling on them to be confident that she had their backs, she said “I say to you what I say to my members: I would rather win the vote on background checks and gun violence safety protections than win the election. And if Republicans won’t do that, we have to change their minds or change who’s in office—because we must get the job done. And I tell this to my colleagues: There is not a single person in the world whose political survival is more important than the survival of our children.”

Explaining the internal maneuvering and outside mobilization, she invoked her favorite Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who said, “Public sentiment is everything. With it you can accomplish anything; without it almost nothing.”

They talked about organizing and mobilizing, and Nancy reminded them that nothing is more eloquent to a member of Congress than the voice of his or her own constituent. She told them, “Tell a friend to call a Republican if you don’t have a Republican member of Congress.” And as they talked about the clear choice between the NRA or the children of America, she urged them to have faith that people would hear them.

The next morning, Nancy and Chef José Andrés were greeting marchers in the volunteer kitchen that was established to feed the marchers as they set off down the mall. In the weeks that followed, the young people not only joined the adults’ organizational calls, but established their own calls and asked Nancy to call in and hear their updates and concerns directly from them—without adults or advisers filtering their views. Again, Nancy was at the heart of person-to-person storytelling, organizing, and nurturing to build community and make change.

The energy around these survivors in activism is heartbreaking and powerful.

Every day in the campaign and every day since the 2018 election there has been loss. So many mass shootings since Parkland—in 2019 too many more, especially in Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio, as well as the dozens of people killed by gun violence on the streets and in homes.

There are days when the pain is unrelenting. Every day in America over ninety families experience the agony of losing a loved one to gun violence. In late February 2019, House Democrats passed comprehensive bipartisan background checks bills and demanded a vote on them in the Senate. Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to block the bills in the Senate over the summer of 2019, even after the El Paso shooting that targeted Latinos, killing twenty-two people and wounding dozens more in a Walmart.

Nancy never gives up. She has been fighting this a long time, and the NRA has given her an F rating her entire career. But she has seen the public sentiment, the grassroots power, the local and state precedents to pave the way for federal reform. And now that the moms have joined with the teenagers, millions of Americans are telling the nation, “Enough is enough.” Never bet against the moms—we are organized, mobilized, and determined to advocate for our children’s safety.

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