This is the outline sent to
Representative Cheri Bustos
May 25, 2017
Making the Majority the Majority cont.
Our current social media interaction puts us in contact with like-minded people, but often we do not know of a fellow Democrat in our own neighborhood. The Internet outreach has not had a geographic element. This approach could reach the millennial generation on their smart phones where they live. It will be far more effective than TV ads. The younger voters do not watch TV, unless it is streaming on their mobile device. They do not read print mailers or doorknockers. Fund raising emails have become a pathetic blizzard. These continual appeals are turning many supporters off. Let us build these digital communities and allow them to grow and blossom. A well-designed digital interface will use the principle of efficiency to maximize our resources. It will allow us to win against our opponents and run effective campaigns even in Red States. The elements are all available; we just need the vision to organize the interaction. Will Rogers’ old joke may finally make no sense a decade from now.
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Great ideas will be generated from an engaged base I will suggest one. Bringing engaged citizens to these projects can perfect an idea.
We need an integrated transportation system, one with high-speed rail
links between regional airports and hub airports. These secure energy
efficient connections would have seamless links to downtown and
suburban locations. We should offer a tax deal for corporate offshore
profits to return at low rates or tax free, if the monies are used to
fund the building of the infrastructure. We need our universities,
corporate entities, and government planners to propose the best
system. Government should build the tracks, as we do the highways,
manufacturers like John Deere and Caterpillar should build the engines
and passenger compartments (in Illinois and Iowa), and the airlines
and other carriers should bid to run the routes, as they do for
airports now. Tracks should follow our existing Interstate system with
already established right of ways. Envision Moline to O’Hare in 30
minutes, downtown Chicago in 45. Peoria to O’Hare could share some of
the same right of way to Chicago and also be a 30-minute trip.
Illinois would be the perfect location for a pilot project. The growth
that this system would generate in the Quad Cities and Peoria would be
an economic revival. This is an example of public private partnership
based on the same model as our Interstate highway system. We can do
great things and solve our real problems if we choose to. We need to
involve the majority who will invest their support by voting.
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