One Year Anniversary of #ForceTheVote!
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore
4.4 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
It's been a year since the #ForceTheVote campaign to pressure progressive Democrats in the House to deny their vote for Speaker from Nancy Pelosi unless she agreed to bring up a Medicare for All vote on the House Floor. Jimmy and comedian Kurt Metzger reflect on what happened to #ForceTheVote.
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Also featuring Stef Zamorano!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, we're doing live stand-up shows in Los Angeles on this 14th of January. |
| 0:06.5 | Then we're going to be in Raleigh, North Carolina and Philadelphia. |
| 0:09.6 | Go to jimmydoorcomedy.com for a link for all tickets. |
| 0:36.0 | It was a one-year anniversary of Forced a Vote. |
| 0:38.9 | Now, do you remember what Forced a Vote was? |
| 0:42.5 | Forced a Vote was the, we had figured out at this show that when the Democrats lost a |
| 0:47.9 | bunch of house seats, that now the margin of their majority was so small that the squad |
| 0:54.8 | were, there's the siding votes on must pass bills. |
| 0:58.1 | And one of those votes we wanted was a Medicare for all vote. |
| 1:02.4 | And we wanted them to withhold their vote for Nancy Pelosi's speaker because they could |
| 1:06.0 | stop her from being speaker if they wanted and say, we'll only vote for you if you agree |
| 1:11.8 | to have a vote for Medicare for all. |
| 1:15.5 | And I thought of that because that was something that everyone agreed on. |
| 1:22.0 | Everybody on the left from the DSA to the squad to Nancy Pelosi, everybody had said we |
| 1:26.7 | got to get a vote on Medicare for all. |
| 1:29.5 | Everybody had said that. |
| 1:31.2 | The squad written to AOC ran on it. |
| 1:34.8 | So we said, well, this is your perfect opportunity. |
| 1:38.1 | Tell Nancy Pelosi to give us a vote on Medicare for all or else you won't vote for her for |
| 1:41.9 | speaker and she can't become speaker without their vote. |
| 1:45.9 | So this is what we did. |
| 1:48.3 | Forced a vote withhold your vote for Pelosi. |
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