{"id":33242,"date":"2024-04-28T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33242"},"modified":"2024-04-28T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T03:29:13","slug":"pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-april-28-2024-with-jamie-mcleod-skinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-april-28-2024-with-jamie-mcleod-skinner\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, April 28, 2024 with Jamie McLeod-Skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, April 28, 2024 with Jamie McLeod-Skinner\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZQlWEwihb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PDAMERICA\">PDAMERICA<\/a>  \u2022 Streamed live 7 hours agoIn the opinion of PDA Executive Director Alan Minsky, &#8220;There may be no more important election across the entire country than Oregon&#8217;s 5th District. The progressive candidate there, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, is a transformative politician, who is advocating for the type of policies that will make a positive impact on the lives of Americans in small towns and rural areas from coast-to-coast. Jamie&#8217;s program is so well designed to address endemic issues that plague so much of the country, it would turn rural America from MAGA red to progressive blue.&#8221; Jamie McLeod-Skinner&#8217;s victory in the 2022 Democratic Primary over the conservative Democratic incumbent, Kurt Schrader, was one of the most significant results of the 2022 election cycle for progressives. Unfortunately, Oregon&#8217;s 5th District was redrawn after the 2020 Census to be slightly more GOP-leaning, and Jamie barely lost in the general election. However, her chances will be much better in a Presidential year. So, lifting Jamie to victory in her competitive primary is essential. McLeod-Skinner will instantly be one of the most important members in Congress from a PDA perspective. How so? Well, not only will she be one of the few Democrats outside of New England to represent a heavily rural district in Congress, she will be an even rarer breed\u2014a progressive representing a rural district\u2014as such, Jamie will be a transformative figure in American politics. As we all know, the Democratic Party has been virtually wiped out across rural America, but Democrats have been consistently nominating centrist\/neoliberal Democrats there. Consequently, people across rural and small town America have not been presented with a progressive vision for their communities and the country. That will change with Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Congress! Indeed, Jamie was a major contributor to the development of the Rural New Deal that PDA composed along with the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative. We are thrilled by Jamie&#8217;s candidacy. If you want to renew your sense of hope in progressive politics and how together we can revitalize American society through democracy\u2014join us this Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDAMERICA \u2022 Streamed live 7 hours agoIn the opinion of PDA Executive Director Alan Minsky, &#8220;There may be no more important election across the entire country than Oregon&#8217;s 5th District. The progressive candidate there, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, is a transformative politician, who is advocating for the type of policies that will&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-april-28-2024-with-jamie-mcleod-skinner\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33243,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242\/revisions\/33243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}