Millions lose health coverage due to job loss in pandemic

https://www.epi.org/publication/health-insurance-and-the-covid-19-shock/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=752364b9a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_21_07_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-752364b9a2-58185549&mc_cid=752364b9a2&mc_eid=5f63a05e46

 

This labor-oriented group has produced estimates of how many people have lost health insurance. Using the normal sources of data would mean waiting months to gauge the effect.

 

Charlie Cooper

Maryland is still looking for substitute poll workers in case they are needed

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/elections/bs-md-pol-election-judges-shortage-filled-20200828-z2dn3j5h3fcuvg4gyevt2qnayu-story.html

 

Many voters who applied online for a mail-in ballot will receive a paper application for a mail-in ballot. This may cause confusion.

 

Charlie Cooper

GMOM President explains how big money in politics distorts pandemic relief

https://ourrevolutionmd.com/2020/08/26/3364/workers-lose-wall-street-wins-what-to-do/

 

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

 

Please ask Baltimore Ethical Society

Angad, Could you please direct the request for co-sponsorship to the proper person at Baltimore Ethical Society? Thanks, Charlie

 

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Protect Our Vote: Join Our Panel Discussion

September 16, 2020, 5:00 pm (Alternate date September 17)

Via Zoom

 

In Gavin Guerra's new film, "Let the People Decide," civil rights icons including Bob Moses, John Lewis, and Harry Belafonte draw disturbing parallels between the vote-suppressing tactics of the Jim Crow era and those employed today. Join Guerra and a panel of activists online to learn more about the methods wealthy elites are using to keep people away from the polls and what you can do to fight these anti-democracy tactics. Participants will receive a link and key to screen the film a week before the event.

 

Watch the trailer.

 

Sponsors include Get Money Out - Maryland, Chesapeake Climate Action Fund, Our Revolution Maryland, and The Arundel Patriot. We are also actively recruiting co-sponsors, and we hope that your organization will sign on and publicize the event. Co-sponsors will have time during the event to invite participants to work on volunteer GOTV and voter education activities.

 

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

M: 410-624-6095

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." – Louis Brandeis

 

 

 

From: ARGENTIN CRAIG <ascraig@comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:08 PM
To: sam@baltimorevotes.org
Cc: Charlie Cooper <charlie.coop47@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: RE: Co-sponsors - time sensitive

 

Good Wednesday morning, dear Sam.

Wondering if #Baltimore Votes is interested in being a co-sponsor to this September 16th event on voter suppression, voting, and voter education.

See list below. If so, please contact Charlie Cooper (410.624.6095)

Cheers,

Argentine

410.433.6292.

---------- Original Message ----------

From: Charlie Cooper <charlie.coop47@gmail.com>

To: 'Hank Prensky' <hank@takomahomes.com>, 'Argentine Craig' <ascraig@comcast.net>, 'Mike Tidwell' <mtidwell@chesapeakeclimate.org>, 'Chrissy Holt' <chrissyholt18@gmail.com>

Date: 08/26/2020 8:59 AM

Subject: RE: Co-sponsors - time sensitive

 

 

Thanks to Argentine Craig, Baltimore City League of Women Voters has signed on to be a co-sponsor.

 

Charlie

 

From: Charlie Cooper <charlie.coop47@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 3:02 PM
To: 'Hank Prensky' <hank@takomahomes.com>; mwulfe2020@gmail.com; 'Argentine Craig' <ascraig@comcast.net>; 'Mike Tidwell' <mtidwell@chesapeakeclimate.org>; 'Chrissy Holt' <chrissyholt18@gmail.com>
Subject: Co-sponsors - time sensitive

 

Colleagues,

 

Here is a list of candidate organizations to become co-sponsors of our September 16 (17) panel discussion with Gavin Guerra.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0g2h7ueO-C1gF9wXofXbPn19GLrtuIR8PcsGxNdKhE/edit

 

You have full edit authority on this document. You can add rows if you add a new organization. Please look for your name and record contact info and responses of organizations on this list. Please put the code CS in the results column when an organization agrees to co-sponsor. Give me a call or email if there are any questions.

 

Thanks to all

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

M: 410-624-6095

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." – Louis Brandeis

 

 

USPS Chair grilled on his GOP fundraising role

https://sirota.substack.com/p/trumps-usps-chair-grilled-after-tmi?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MDE2NTUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjg5NDY5NCwiXyI6IlQzazNiIiwiaWF0IjoxNTk4MzU5MTM4LCJleHAiOjE1OTgzNjI3MzgsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zNzc3OCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.KfrT6x99H8rzPJBTojebQ7_IObYqz0t2rLBmq4M_l9Y&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

Charlie Cooper

Democrats are formulating a plan to overcome the influence of dark money from the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/democrats-climate-plan-fossil-fuel-industry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Scores of media reports and lawsuits from states have exposed the industry's efforts to conceal the scale of the problem and use of dark money groups to create partisan gridlock and slow a shift away from fossil fuels. But the story has yet to reach the American public.

Marty Wulfe

Electronic voting via block chain app in West Virginia

https://www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/local-columns/2020/08/ensuring-west-virginians-have-options-in-voting-2/

 

Charlie Cooper

Dems and Republicans planning their costly poll-monitoring and tally-monitoring efforts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.html

 

Charlie Cooper

Dems and GOP at odds over role of observers at polls. GOP freed of restraint order

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.html

 

Charlie Cooper

Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal is a favorite of Wall Street, especially the Blackstone Group

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00000153

 

Charlie Cooper

FW: The Finance 202: Liberals extend hot streak by targeting Wall Street in primaries - The Washington Post

Thanks, Angad. I found an opensecrets page chronicling his Blackstone and other Wall street connections, which I may use in the next CB.

 

C

 

From: bucksbusters@googlegroups.com <bucksbusters@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of singh
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 9:32 AM
To: bucksbusters@googlegroups.com
Subject: The Finance 202: Liberals extend hot streak by targeting Wall Street in primaries - The Washington Post

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/06/finance-202-liberals-extend-hot-streak-by-targeting-wall-street-primaries/ 

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Maryland hasn't picked a printer yet for November 3 election

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-ballots-not-mailed-printing-20200819-2rnmswj7qjdffbo6ytntn46e2m-story.html

 

The State Board of Elections (SBE) has not told voters about the schedule for printing and sending out mail-in ballots. As of August 19, the ballots cannot be printed until Republican convention nominates Trump and until smaller-party candidate petitions are counted/certified. SBE has not yet chosen the printer. Ballots styles are to be certified by August 31, the printing will start on September 3, and the mailing to voters will start by September 24 (5 days late under State law).

 

[NOTE: For voters who receive a mail-in ballot application in early September, they need to apply and mail in their ballot request, the ballot has to be mailed out, and then the voter has to mail in the ballot (or deliver it to a local board of elections office or drop box). This could require four successful mailings. Voters can speed up the process by going online to XXXX and requesting that an absentee ballot be mailed.]

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

Tsunami of evictions hasn't materialized

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-18/u-s-evictions-are-down-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic

 

When will shoe drop?

 

Charlie Cooper

Mortgage delinquencies rising fast

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/08/17/mortgage-delinquencies-jump-by-most-ever-60-day-delinquencies-hit-highest-level-ever-record-16-of-fha-mortgages-delinquent-what-a-mess/

 

Despite very low mortgage rates, delinquencies are rising at a record rate. In Miami, 14% of mortgages are at least 30 days overdue.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

gov. Hogan agrees to participate in Trump unemployment supplement

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-hogan-accepts-trump-unemployment-plan-20200819-n34pr3ffy5a23fukhd7l5dokjy-story.html

Charlie Cooper

DNC drops platform plank eschewing fossil fuel subsides

https://readsludge.com/2020/08/18/dncs-flip-flop-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-follows-deep-ties-the-industry/

 

The DNC had reversed a ban on receiving fossil fuel PAC contributions and has now overturned its 2016 plank that advocated ending federal fossil fuel subsidies.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

11% in U.S. considered suicide in June 2020

https://www.insider.com/cdc-11-percent-us-adults-seriously-considered-suicide-in-june-2020-8

 

The  CDC reported that the rate doubled since June 2019 and that the pandemic is a causal factor.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

Ways and Means Chair Neal gets donations from Hospital Association and does their bidding

https://sirota.substack.com/p/scoop-hospitals-bankroll-the-democrat

 

Charlie Cooper

New Chair of USPS Board runs a big GOP SuperPAC

https://sirota.substack.com/p/trumps-postal-service-chairman-has?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MDE2NTUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjg1MjgzMiwiXyI6ImUzUi91IiwiaWF0IjoxNTk3NTA2MDkyLCJleHAiOjE1OTc1MDk2OTIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zNzc3OCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Fzq0ZXne1s7h5jxe1KbVL6GUca2LtvWcZe4Z6nN17b0

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

New California Financial Watchdog Would Take Aim At Predatory Lenders Amid Pandemic

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Billionaires Have Made an Absolute Killing During the Pandemic. The Number Is Staggering.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/billionaire-coronavirus-wealth-animation-covid-685-billion/

At a Monday afternoon press conference at the White House, Trump went so far as to say that “carpenters and policemen and farmers”—millions of ordinary Americans—are “the ones that benefit by having a good stock market, probably more than anybody else.”

Probably more than anyone else? That’s absurd on its face (only 55 percent of Americans report owning stocks, a number that correlates with higher household income, among other things.) But it’s even more disconnected from reality when you collect the receipts: This pandemic period has been a bonanza for billionaires, for whom Trump’s brutalist coronavirus denial and inaction have reaped untold rewards.

Marty Wulfe

 

Some unemployed workers affected by fraud probe still without benefits a month after Maryland froze accounts - Baltimore Sun

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-unemployment-limbo-20200812-6zues7lhprebfcjcsa7mkznaqy-story.html#nws=true 

More on BlackRock and Fed Chair Powell

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/08/fed-chair-powell-had-4-private-phone-calls-with-blackrocks-ceo-since-march-as-blackrock-manages-upwards-of-25-million-of-powells-personal-money-and-lands-3-no-bid-deals-with-the-fed/

 

Charlie Cooper

Cuomo Is Protecting His Wall Street Donors From Democratic Tax Bills

https://sirota.substack.com/p/cuomo-is-protecting-his-wall-street?r=7u3mv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email

Democratic legislators are targeting the financial industry -- but their party’s governor is helping the industry as it frantically lobbies in Albany.

Marty Wulfe

Big oil remembers 'friend' Trump with millions in campaign funds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/09/big-oil-trump-campaign-donations-fossil-fuel-industry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Outlook

Fossil fuel billionaires and other energy moguls from Texas to New York to Oklahoma, have opened their wallets wide and raised cash to re-elect Trump, after three-plus years of enjoying Trump's sweeping energy deregulation and tax cuts.

Marty Wulfe

Corporate Lobbyists Vote To Keep Corporate Lobbyists In the DNC – Sludge

https://readsludge.com/2020/08/05/corporate-lobbyists-vote-to-keep-corporate-lobbyists-in-the-dnc/

A measure to bar corporate lobbyists from serving on the DNC was rejected with several corporate lobbyists on the DNC Rules Committee voting against it.

Marty Wulfe

Here Are the Billionaires Funding Trump’s Voter Suppression Lawsuits – Sludge

https://readsludge.com/2020/07/31/here-are-the-billionaires-funding-trumps-voter-suppression-lawsuits/

Dozens of billionaires have donated to the RNC's legal fund that is being used to fight against expanded access to mail voting.

Marty Wulfe

[The Washington Post] Almost 4 in 10 election-judge jobs in Maryland are vacant. Officials are begging Hogan to change his Election Day plan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-maryland-voting-plans/2020/08/05/1c25ced4-d68f-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html

More than 1,000 additional Maryland poll workers have dropped out over the past week, leaving the state with little more than 60 percent of the election judges it needs and boosting pressure on Gov. Larry Hogan to abandon plans to open every voting precinct.

Marty Wulfe

$10 billion in COVID-19 aid flowed through lobbyists with close ties to Trump

https://apnews.com/2edf8670a491a702ecfb7312f507f83a?link_id=1&can_id=e96967e6939a941dbdebb8356ad281a2&source=email-project-overlord-is-a-violation-of-our-rights-2&email_referrer=email_884067&email_subject=stopcovidcorruption

 

Charlie Cooper

 

Summary of Fed balance sheet, including CARES Act facilities and 13(3) faciities

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/07/30/feds-asset-fall-by-16-billion-220-billion-since-june-10-week-7-of-balance-sheet-shrinkage/

 

The CARES Act business loan fund of $4.54 trillion has issued only about $100 billion in loans.

 

 

Charlie Cooper

H: 410-578-8291

M: 410-624-6095

Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

 

OxyContin Maker Purdue Made Political Contributions Post Bankruptcy

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/07/purdue-pharma-bankrupt-donations/ 

Congressional Oversight Commission examines U.S. Treasury loan to YRC Trucking

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/politics/yrc-coronavirus-relief-funds.html

 

The loan comes from a special fund for critical national security firms, but this company merely delivers meals to military bases. The company’s financiers had lent money to Jared Kushner. Critic charge that another firm could have delivered the meals and that YRC Trucking should have been left to solve its long-standing financial problems without government aid.

 

Charlie Cooper, with thanks to Hank Prensky

The labor market in U.S. is terrible and federal government agencies contradict each other

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/08/03/the-census-bureaus-grim-take-on-the-pandemic-employment-shock-not-improving-yet/

“There is a huge difference between the 30.2 million people on unemployment insurance rolls, as per the Labor Department’s weekly tally of unemployment claims, and the assertion that only 17.8 million people are unemployed, as per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

 

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

Fiscal cliffs are dangerous, and the CARES act intensified the problem

https://nathantankus.substack.com/p/the-fiscal-cliffication-of-fiscal?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MDE2NTUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjgxMDE2MywiXyI6InQxcEp4IiwiaWF0IjoxNTk2NTQ4NDA1LCJleHAiOjE1OTY1NTIwMDUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zNDEyMSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.v2jR-y1iDsKSg2rwL1LaJyAUx6vM570zLvdKGR7oVzE

 

“I criticized the CARES act early on for having specific dollar amounts and arbitrary time limitations, rather than standardized criteria for indefinite mandatory funding of the most essential programs. It has become clear since then that this structure has many benefits to a Republican party ready to shed President Donald Trump, and saddle a Democratic administration with a deep depression.”

 

Charlie Cooper

Federal Reserve extends its emergency credit facilities

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200728a.htm

 

These facilities were set to expire 9/30/20 and will now expire 12/31/20: Primary Dealer Credit Facility, the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility, the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, the Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility, and the Main Street Lending Program.

 

Charlie Cooper

Why GOP and Dems compromised in March and can't/won't do so now

https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-why-relief-bill-so-elusive-this-time/

 

David Dayen says that Republicans are interested only in relieving corporate risk and that the ongoing $4.54 trillion slush fund still has plenty of capacity to bailout big business. In contrast, aid for working people – extra unemployment benefits and eviction/foreclosure forbearance – has expired.

 

Charlie Cooper

Study finds $600 weekly unemployment insurance hike did not reduce employment

https://news.yale.edu/2020/07/27/yale-study-finds-expanded-jobless-benefits-did-not-reduce-employment

 

“workers receiving larger increases in unemployment benefits experienced very similar gains in employment by early May relative to workers with less-generous benefit increases. People with more generously expanded benefits also resumed working at a similar or slightly quicker rate than others did….”

 

Charlie Cooper

Wave Of Evictions Expected As Moratoriums End In Many States

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wave-of-evictions-expected-as-moratoriums-end-in-many-states_n_5f29328cc5b6a34284bf4c7a

Some 23 million people nationwide are at risk of being evicted as moratoriums enacted because of the coronavirus expire and courts reopen.

Marty Wulfe

Cuomo blocks tax hike on his billionaire donors

https://sirota.substack.com/p/news-cuomo-blocks-tax-hikes-on-ny

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

Guardian article previews HBO documentary on bi-partisan nature of The Swamp

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/03/the-swamp-hbo-washington-democracy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Thanks to Sheila Ruth

 

Eastman Kodak's top executive reportedly got Trump deal windfall on an 'understanding'

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/01/eastman-kodaks-top-executive-reportedly-got-trump-deal-windfall-on-an-understanding.html?__source=sharebar|email&par=sharebar

Prior to this week’s financing deal, the company warned investors it was at risk of not continuing as a going concern, but it was boosted by the agreement with the Trump administration on Tuesday to supply drug ingredients.

Marty Wulfe

[The Washington Post] Md. Gov. Larry Hogan says he tried to expand access to voting. Instead, he sparked a revolt.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-voting-plan-backlash/2020/07/31/0628b7ee-d271-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

Any changes to the absentee ballot applications in Maryland — including renaming them “mail-in” ballots — involves a formal notification and approval process that takes a month. None can be mailed until after the state board approves them during a Wednesday meeting. And without an emergency proclamation from Hogan to change state law, none of those mailed-in ballots can be opened or counted until two days after Election Day.

Marty Wulfe

Revealed: super-rich donate to Cuomo as he rejects tax hikes for billionaires

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/31/cuomo-new-york-governor-billionaires-super-rich?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Outlook

Investigation shows governor's political machine has received money from more than a third of New York's billionaire families

Marty Wulfe