Sen. Wyden at town hall Friday; he's very concerned about & working on election security for 2018

[Amaryllis]

Just FYI, I went to Senator Wyden's town hall last Friday. Hoping this will be reassuring to you all:

At one point he did specifically mention how concerned he was about election security and that he was doing a lot of work on it. He did specifically mention voting machines and other cyber security issues and registration data bases. So there are some Dems working on this. He takes questions by lottery so your number has to get called to ask a question, which is fair, but frustrating in that I am often left wanting more information! I was dying to ask more but my number didn't get drawn.

He is on Senate Intel so knows as much as anyone about Russian election meddling. He is also all over the entire Russia thing and has been since it first was a thing. He's been saying for a long time to follow the money and the trail of dead Russians.

I always feel so much better after going to one of his town halls because I know that at least we are in good hands with Wyden and Merkley. He has a town hall in every county in Oregon every year, and has had more than that in Portland since the election. Probably because his constituents are so concerned. And I am immensely grateful and aware of how fortunate those of us are who have good senators and reps.

[fleabiscuit]

1. Thanks for posting. nt

[BigmanPigman]

2. I love your senators and congressmen.

I made a list last week of my favorites and yours were on it. Too bad your number wasn't chosen at the Town Hall.

I listened to Biden discuss this issue today and he was pretty clear about what needs to be done specifically. It doesn't seem like it would be very difficult to get it done but we can't wait until the last minute and we can't wait for this admin to do anything about it ever since they won't.

[Amaryllis]

4. THanks for posting that. I hadn't heard...what would I search to find him discussing it?

[BigmanPigman]

8. He was talking with Andrea Mitchell

on MSNBC and I only saw part of it. He said Tillerson needs to get "so and so agency/committee working on it now!". This is part 1 and it is at about 6:50 on the interview.
http://rtznews.info/part-1-joe-biden-having-enormous-difficulty-understanding-donald-trumps-white-house-msnbc/

[trueblue2007]

3. WYDEN AND BLUMENAUER are my guys too!!!!

they are wonderful. thank you Amaryllis for posting about him.

[Amaryllis]

5. Sometimes I call them just to tell them now much I appreciate them. I've asked their aides

if it's still important to call when I nearly always agree with them, and the answer is definitely yes! They track calls and it's a numbers game and they need to know how much support they have.

[diva77]

6. I'm glad he is concerned about election security; I wonder about all of the SOS's!!

K&R

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Exactly - How they got FL !! Would be a good time to focus on any swing

state that had Repuke leadership

[malaise]

9. K & R

My one worry is that there is so much focus on Russians that everyone forgets this could not have happened without ReTHUGs

[Amaryllis]

12. I think Wyden is very aware of that as well. He was talking about election infrastructure security

in general; not just RUssia.

[OregonBlue]

10. I couldn't agree more. We have two very fine hard-working Dem Senators. Now we need to get

rid of that snake in the grass Greg Walden. Unfortunately, he represents the entire East side of the state. He never met a billionaire he didn't love and he never met a poor man he did. Not only did he vote for the tax give away, he was one of the main drafters of it. He screwed Oregonians big time and he needs to go.

[Dem_4_Life]

11. You are so lucky he is your Senator... I love Wyden

I went to Joaquin Castro's town hall last year and it was an amazing experience. He invites everyone even if you aren't in his district to attend his town halls. And since my Rep Lamar Smith (who is on the retiring list) NEVER has town halls I couldn't wait to go. This was in March right before they started the open hearings in the Intel Committee. Joaquin had people put questions in a bowl and his staff would randomly pull out questions so it's similar to the lottery technique.

And of course Cruz and Cornyn NEVER have town halls....

Another reason I love Beto O'Rourke (who is running against Cruz) is that his goal is to have town halls in EVERY 254 county of Texas! So far I think he is at 206-ish.

I can't wait until after the Blue tidal wave here where we can finally have Rep and a NEW Senator who will actually hold town halls and represent the people.