Does your city council, state legislator, or even your senator have an understanding of cybersecurity? What about all the people who work for them?

There’s a chance that the people running your local, state, and even federal government don’t share a core understanding of the principles of cybersecurity, and that’s not okay. Over the past decade, the private sector has made it clear that cybersecurity isn’t impossible when organizations are willing to invest money and human resources into the fight.

Government employees’ sense of security doesn’t just impact their ability to create and uphold regulations. It also impacts their ability to keep your data — and even your family — safe. Moreover, the people (their bosses) think it’s important. According to a survey completed at the 2018 Black Hat conference, 88% of people believe that all government officials need a core understanding of cybersecurity, whether they draft legislation or not.

#RepYourBlock2020 today submitted petitions for over 70 candidates for the Franklin County Democratic Party’s Central Committee. The candidates come from all walks of life and represent a diversity of views and aspirations for what our county and Democratic party can become.

"The Franklin County Democratic Party has lacked accountability to our neighborhoods,” said Anna Siriano, candidate for Central Committee on the West Side. “We are committed to making politics more accessible and lifting up the concerns of our neighbors.

Candidates running with #RepYourBlock2020 are committed to a democratic decision-making process. They pledge to be open, transparent, collaborative, and focused on those who will be most impacted by their decisions.

The Franklin County Democratic Party Central Committee makes decisions for the party. The Central Committee’s primary function is to determine which candidates are on the “sample ballot.” Every four years, primary voters elect up to 152 people all across the county to serve as a ward representative on the Franklin County Democratic Party Central Committee.

We’re now seven weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, the first voting in the Democratic presidential race. After that, frontloaded primaries might decide the nominee by late spring. For progressives torn between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — or fervently committed to one of them — choices on how to approach the next few months could change the course of history.

As a kindred activist put it to me when we crossed paths last weekend, “Bernie speaks our language” — a shorthand way of saying that the Bernie 2020 campaign is a fight for a truly transformative and humanistic future. “Not me. Us.”

I actively support Bernie because his voice is ours for genuine democracy and social justice. Hearing just a few minutes from a recent Bernie speech is a reminder of just how profoundly that is true.

Approximately 1500 people lined High Street at Graceland Shopping Center in support of the Impeachment of Donald Trump on Tuesday Dec 17th.  It was one of many actions held around the country.  People lined both sides of the street, from Bob Evans on the north to the Goodyear location on the south.   More than 200,000 people gathered at events in every state.  There was a second local event in Westerville.  Of course, the crowd was peaceful but annimated.  Cars honked in support throughout the event. 

BITTER DISPUTE OVER PG&E'S BANKRUPTCY STILL RAGES WHILE DIABLO REMAINS UN-INSPECTED....
TIME TO ACT!!
Time (again!) to call the governor, the legislature, the CPUC, the courts, the utility, potential investors, stakeholders, etc....
btw....if you think CA's nuke war is brutal, check out Ohio: (https://tinyurl.com/OHSierra1e )

Powerful forces are quickly moving Pacific Gas & Electric towards a settlement on its hideously complex multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy case.  Thankfully, Gov. Gavin Newsom has put at least a temporary hold on a final agreement.