MONDAY 6/26/17 CALLS TO ACTION: The next few days are key

FEDERAL:

We’re coming into the last few days when we can put pressure on our Senators to kill the sorry excuse for a healthcare bill that Mitch McConnell has foisted upon us. As usual, call Richard Burr and Thom Tillis and demand that they vote NO for the sake of the health of all Americans.

If you know people in the following states, tell them to call their senators and tell them to vote NO on the healthcare bill.

From someone who was just on healthcare coalition call with U.S. Senators opposed to the Trumpcare bill:

1. Grassroots pressure will determine whether this passes.
2. They’re not seeing nearly the response there was to the House bill. That needs to change.
3. It’s make or break this week. Unlikely McConnell will drag this on past this week because he wants     to move on to tax cuts.
4. The following Senators are wavering and need to be flooded with contacts.

1. Dean Heller (Nevada) is the most important – (202) 224-6244
2. Collins – Maine – (202) 224-2523
3. Murkowski – Alaska – (202) 224-6665
4. Capito – West Virginia – (202) 224-6472
5. Cassidy – Louisiana – (202) 224-5824
6. Flake – Arizona – (202) 224-4521
7. Gardner – Colorado – (202) 224-5941
8. Portman – Ohio – (202) 224-3353
9. Cruz – Texas – (202) 224-5922
10. Paul – Kentucky – 
(202) 224-4343
11. Lee – Arizona – (202) 224-5444
12. Sasse – Nebraska – (202) 224-4224

 

List of Health Care Staffers for Republican Senators

Capitol Switchboard – 202-224-3121

Find You Senators’ Contact Info

STATE:

‘NC is the only state where no doesn’t mean no’: Law says women can’t back out of sex

“The Supreme Court ruled that “if actual penetration is accomplished with the woman’s consent, the accused is not guilty of rape, although he may be guilty of another crime because of his subsequent actions.”

So for the next 38 years, women in North Carolina who allegedly agree to sex but change their minds or say “no” during intercourse cannot legally say “no” after sex starts.

State Sen. Jeff Jackson of Mecklenburg County thinks that’s absurd.”

 

Under NC law, no doesn’t always mean no

Jonathan Wayne Guy, 48, was initially charged with second-degree rape in the case, but because the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a 1979 case that women cannot revoke consent after sex begins, the charges were lowered to misdemeanor assault on a female.”

Call your Senator and urge them to support SB 553 Revoke Consent for Intercourse Act, sponsored by Senator Jeff Jackson, which will rectify the 1979 ruling that says a woman cannot revoke consent after sex begins.