Deval Patrick vision statement

[brooklynite]

For Everyone, Everywhere
The moment is precarious – and also full of possibility. The public is asking big questions and insisting on big solutions. Renewing the American Dream requires we deliver on an Opportunity Agenda, a Reform Agenda, and a Democracy Agenda.

But we can’t make meaningful and lasting change to our policies without also changing our politics. That means governing not for the next news cycle or election cycle, but for the next generation. Not just to beat the incumbent, but to shape a better future for everyone, everywhere.

Opportunity Agenda
An Opportunity Agenda is about growing the economy out to working people and the marginalized, not just up to the well connected. In a global economy where knowledge is power, that means investing time, ideas and money in education, innovation and infrastructure.

Education from pre-K to community college, and right through workforce development and retraining, because education is the single best investment the public can make in its own collective future.

Innovation because it is our competitive edge in the world. That means cultivating industries like clean tech, precision manufacturing, robotics, gaming, cybersecurity, transportation, green construction and biotech, to name just a few of the economic revolutions underway or within our grasp.

And infrastructure because it is the platform the public builds to enable personal ambition and private investment. That means roads, rails, bridges, airports, train stations, broadband and a modernized efficient electric grid. That means school buildings and parks, laboratories and libraries.

Reform Agenda
A Reform Agenda is about making meaningful fixes to the big systems that consistently fail to meet modern needs. This means a health care system that provides access to high-quality, low-cost health services everywhere and for every single individual, bar none. This means an immigration system that provides for both border integrity and human dignity, that encourages the determined and creative whose values align with ours to make their home here. This means a justice system that focuses less on warehousing people than on preparing them to re-enter responsible life.

Democracy Agenda
A Democracy Agenda is about fixing the many devices that have crept into our political system to engineer outcomes at odds with the public will. The hyper-partisan gerrymandering where the Party picks the voter rather than the other way around. The voter suppression and other gamesmanship used to make it harder for your vote to count. The explosion of dark money into elections. The influence of paid lobbyists. We must root these out and return power to where it belongs: with the people.

https://devalpatrick2020.com/vision/

[Demsrule86]

1. Still not interested.

[we can do it]

2. Nice of him to pop in🙄

[CentralMass]

3. I have voted for the former governor and have even met him.

However I am against these11th hour entries into the primary. This IMO is party insiders trying to disrupt the primary.
He won't get my primary vote and if his entry alters the race it will add to my distrust of the party hiearchy.

[MBS]

5. exactly how I feel about this.

Interesting that, so far, Mass voters (or, in my case, ex-Mass voters) are the ones who are most incensed about Patrick's move. Maybe because we know more?
I really think he's making a mistake here, and I also am infuriated by the arrogance (and IMO the folly) of an 11th hour move like this.
He for sure won't get my primary vote either.
If party insiders have in fact urged him to get in the race, they've lost my respect as well.

[snowybirdie]

4. Trying to jump

over candidates who have been working hard for months meeting and speaking to voters on the issues. I have no respect for the johnny-come-latlies who come in without doing the work!

[MBS]

6. ditto.n/t

[aikoaiko]

7. yada yada yada agenda.

[Corgigal]

8. This is offensive.

Must believe he’s god gift, and we’re all gonna fall in-line. DNC has done this crap before, and I’m tired of working for people, giving up our funds, and this is allowed?

Perez needs to refund me my funds, if the DNC is playing this game. Just decided to run? Or requested to join, cause the “ right” candidate isn’t winning? I saw the LA times article a few days ago. Sure, it was retracted but it still caused a stir, didn’t it?

We have no choice but vote for the democratic candidate against Trump. However, let us decide who the candidate will be. I can lose honestly, but it must be honest.