Hey Gritty Kitties. Welcome to another episode of Catty Chats

My name is Blaire Postman, founder of Cat Ladies for America and your host.

We are gonna do a short little special episode of Catty Chats. We are on a bit of a summer hiatus as we get ready for season 2.

We're booking guests we're working on new formats. We're gonna have a lot of exciting new twists for when we come back in mid to late August with full episodes every week but we're also on the road a bit this campaign season.

And this episode is a short interview that I got to have with Abdul El-Sayed who is running for the democratic nomination for the US Senate from Michigan.

As well as some of the comments that he made at a rally that I was able to attend when I was visiting back in July

Now this rally had all kinds of folks: It had AOC. It had Bernie Sanders. It had the president of the UAW, Shawn Fain. It had all kinds of folks there supporting him

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And what I really noticed was just how practical everything that they were talking about that they were supporting to me.

And how strange it was that from the outside when I would see critics or hear critics of Abdul El-Sayed so often they were calling him dangerous which didn't make any sense to me because as someone who has health insurance from my day job it still has gotten so much worse.

It sort of sucks. And I'm lucky enough to have it. So Medicare for all doesn't seem crazy

The idea that we want accountability for ICE and for the Department of Defense, and explaining where they are spending their billions of dollars when they are cutting aid for food and security when they are cutting aid for all sorts of benefit programs that help people who are trying to get on their feet and stay there it just seemed really practical to me

And I look at my own senator Senator Chris Van Hollen and he and Abdul El-Sayed seem to agree on all kinds of things.

They agree on eradicating ice and doing immigration in a different way.

They agree on accountability for the people who are in power and where they are spending our tax dollars.

They agree that the enrichment of the current members of the administration and their families seeming to make deals for themselves at the expense of the US government all that is wrong that we should have basic freedoms and support the First Amendment.

I don't hear people regularly calling Chris Van Hollen a radical or dangerous in the mainstream media.

And so I guess I don't understand what makes Abdul El-Sayed radical or dangerous if Chris Van Hollen is not also considered radical or dangerous.

We're also going to be going out there for election night. So we'll have a dispatch from there as well as some other possible races

Make sure you tune in on August 9th. We'll still be having our CATTY CHATS LIVE! with two candidates and sergeant candidates who are trying to flip red seats in different states across the country.

If you missed our first one from back in July you can find that on YouTube Substack and wherever get your audio podcasts.

And of course RSVP for CATLADYPALOOZA number Twoo-za Sunday, September 13th 7pm eastern.

We're gonna be focusing on the First Amendment ice and of course voting rights voting rights voting rights voting voting voting for the midterms with some amazing speakers that we're gonna be announcing starting this week.

So you can go to our website and find all of that information.

And in the meantime enjoy this interview with Abdul El-Sayed!

And check your voter registration everybody! Claws out - meow!