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"Documenting our adventures collecting stories of kids with complex medical needs and storming Capitol Hill."
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Somehow they ended up in my tweet stream today. And yes, I am totally cutting onions here! Please give them a follow and/or a retweet (and a call to your Republican Senators).
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)lamp_shade
(14,856 posts)mcar
(42,489 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)Compared to them the GOP reps are cowards.
mcar
(42,489 posts)BadgerMom
(2,775 posts)And, I hate the Republicans for making this necessary. Why should these children need to lobby to protect their health care? Why? The Republicans are repugnant, money-grubbing soulless boot lickers of the 1%. (I sound just like the crazy RW Twitter users now, only on the other side. Ugh.)
ismnotwasm
(42,037 posts)Instant follow
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Thanks for the post.
Duppers
(28,137 posts)Great strategy!
Big K & R.
NJCher
(35,880 posts)because most of these legislators are so isolated from the populace that they prob'ly don't even know kids like this exist.
Sweet pictures, every one of them, but my personal fave is the third one down of the little girl wandering the hall, by herself, other than for the photographer.
The binder in this first photograph was an important contribution, as many of the senators or reps did not get to see the children.
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demmiblue
(36,947 posts)The last one, to me, is iconic. So many stories told and to be told in that pic.
gademocrat7
(10,699 posts)wryter2000
(46,153 posts)That's what I call activism
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And popsicles!
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