Civics
I was Julian Bell's campaign manager in his 2015 gubernatorial bid (JB4G), handling the campaign's graphic design, social media, messaging, event coordination/planning/scheduling, photography and video, as well as phone banking for numerous campaigns, including coordinating with Bernie Sanders' Portland team.
We created a 501(c)3 and a PAC in efforts to lobby for climate activism in the years that followed. I handled the paperwork until bowing out sometime around 2019, when Julian decided to write a memoir as a guide for grass-roots progressive candidates to avoid many of the pitfalls of running an election without mainstream party support.
Listen. I didn't choose or agree with "fixing" climate change as a slogan. It's not scientifically accurate. But Julian was adamant that it was emotionally effective. And the more I dealt with the voting public, the more I agreed that emotionality was what drove people. That being said, the imprecision of language never ceases to bother me.
Brown's "landmark" Coal2Clean bill was drafted in collaboration with the fossil fuel companies and major utility companies, and was ultimately another pro-fracking ("natural gas: the cleaner solution!") bill disguised as abolition of an already dying coal-industry in favor of a more lucrative anti-environmental lobby. No doubt she and her minder Tina Kotek profited heartily off of it in one way or another, cos you really can't get the Oregon Democratic Party out of bed with the fossil fuel industry. Pre-MAGA, Oregon Republicans were actually more favorable to sustainable solutions due to the job-creation incentives in rural precincts, but post-MAGA, most candidates have represented an onslaught of human sludge and/or at very least misguided yet idealistic social climbers with minimal sway, so the problem remains.
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