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[–]BEB 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The fight isn't over. Call every piece of shit who voted YES and give them hell.

[–]Coconaut[S] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Assembly members who voted yes:

Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Daly, Diep, Friedman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gonzalez, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kamlager, Levine, Limón, Low, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Blanca Rubio, Santiago, Mark Stone, Ting, Weber, Wood, Rendon

Senators who voted yes:

Allen, Archuleta, Atkins, Beall, Bradford, Caballero, Dodd, Durazo, Galgiani, Glazer, Lena Gonzalez, Hertzberg, Hill, Hueso, Hurtado, Jackson, Leyva, McGuire, Mitchell, Monning, Pan, Portantino, Roth, Rubio, Skinner, Stern, Umberg, Wieckowski, Wiener

Legislator contact information:

http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/legislators/your_legislator.html

e: best practices for contacting your legislator:

Legislators care most about are people who live in their districts. If you live in California, you can have the most impact by contacting your local assembly member and senator. You'll be more effective spending 30 mins on one personal thought out contact to your local legislator than 20 generic email blasts around the state. Many have a web form for comments, but it is more impactful to call if you are local. I suggest the following template.

  1. emphasize that you are a local voter. "I have lived in XX neighborhood for YY years, my kids go to ZZ school, my family attends WW church." whatever factoids make it personal for you.

  2. "I am calling to express concern/support/alarm about XX specific bill or YY issue." The more specific you can make it, the better.

  3. Explain why you are concerned/alarmed/[adjective of choice] and the issue affects you directly as an individual voter. Stay away from generic talking points that anybody could use nationwide. maybe you have a friend of a friend in prison or has been to prison? maybe you're worried about your daughter's safety in a topsy-turvy world that this law helps set precedent for?

  4. Give a specific call-to-action. it was easier before, where the call to action was "don't vote for this bill!" the CTA is less clear now. "Can you commit to supporting the rights of born women?" "Can you commit to meeting with XX community group to discuss the issue further? Can the senator/asmmember schedule a time to meet next time he's in town with my local group to discuss the issue? Ask for them to reply with the senator's / assemblymember's position and next actions.

  5. Please be polite! these inboxes or call handlers are staffed by underpaid staff and interns, probably younger than 25. they get inundated every day with vitriol from around the world. If you "remember the human" in your message, they would probably be grateful and more likely to champion your message.

Hope this helps! @ u/BEB for the update.

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for this!

American women, time to get on the phone with these misogynist, rape-enabling pieces of shit. IT IS TIME TO MAKE A STAND.

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is great - so many women are shy to call politicians' office because they feel they don't know what to say, so thanks for this advice!

The only thing I would add is that I have called politicians all over the country - far outside my own district and state - and been listened to by their staff. In fact, I think I've Peak Transed a lot of young staffers, or at least started them on their GC path by making them confront the idiocy of gender ideology, and many have asked me to forward information.

So I would not stop with your own representatives, but call any politician's office who you feel needs to hear your thoughts.

And in states that have large metro area like California, representatives do listen to people outside their districts because residents' lives, work and schools tend to be spread across districts.

BTW: here's a twitter quote from today from shero Maya Forstater (the UK woman whose contract wasn't renewed because of her stated belief in biological sex)

"It takes all sorts: angry, calm, left, right, centre, activists, experts, letter writers. Normies and radicals. Men too. #sexmatters Lets not get caught in the trap of a purity spiral."

My thoughts exactly!

[–]CastleHoward 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the list. It is actually very helpful.