Kerry's comments on the march this weekend

[karynnj]

3. Like you, I thought of how these words are so true to who Kerry is and to describing these kids

Kerry's comments on the need to make things voting issues were said in so many speeches and comments of his in the last decade, that I am sure that many of us can almost hear him say what he wrote. This is one of the reasons I am so glad that he is doing what he is at Yale. He will be an influence on many of the kids there -- and many will likely be important people in their own right.

I went to a march in far bluer place Montpelier, VT. For a small state, there was a huge crowd and the speeches were almost entirely from kids - and they were incredible. Here, they are already having an impact. The VT House just passed a bill that is expected to pass the Senate tomorrow. Not to mention, the Republican Governor has said he will sign a reasonable bill. This was a huge shift for him and for the largely rural state. Part of the reason was that about a week before the FL massacre, there was a boy in a small VT town taken into custody after a friend of his, living in NY, went to her school officials about the plan he shared with her. I think the fact that it could have happened here too, really shook him up.

I think these kids really are changing minds. They also did a great job in speaking of gun violence in Chicago and elsewhere. In VT, a few explicitly mentioned that that this was even more important for POC who were more often the victims.