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Happy New Year! The co-partners of #CripTheVote, Andrew Pulrang, Gregg Beratan, and Alice Wong, are thrilled to host our first candidate chat with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 1:30-2:15 pm Eastern.
Below is an outline of the chat format including questions for Senator Warren. Everyone is welcome to ask questions throughout the chat but there will be time set aside for engagement with community members in the last 15 minutes.
Please note: Our advocacy is nonpartisan and any chats with candidates are not official endorsements.
For more about Senator Warren’s plan to Protecting the Rights and Equality of People with Disabilities: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/disability-rights-and-equality/
How to Participate
Follow @GreggBeratan @AndrewPulrang @DisVisibility and @ewarren. When it’s time for the chat, search #CripTheVote on Twitter for the series of live tweets under the ‘Latest’ tab for the full conversation.
If you don’t use Twitter, you can follow along in real time here: http://twubs.com/CripTheVote
If you might be overwhelmed by the amount of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. The questions will be tweeted 5 minutes apart.
Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/
Here is a link for people who are new to Twitter on starting an account and how to use it: https://help.twitter.com/en/new-user-faq
Here’s an article about how to participate in a Twitter chat: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat/546805/
Check out this captioned ASL explanation of how to participate in a chat by @behearddc https://www.facebook.com/HEARDDC/videos/1181213075257528/
If you don’t use Twitter, you can follow along in real time here: http://twubs.com/CripTheVote
If you might be overwhelmed by the amount of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. The questions will be tweeted 5 minutes apart.
Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/
Here is a link for people who are new to Twitter on starting an account and how to use it: https://help.twitter.com/en/new-user-faq
Here’s an article about how to participate in a Twitter chat: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat/546805/
Check out this captioned ASL explanation of how to participate in a chat by @behearddc https://www.facebook.com/HEARDDC/videos/1181213075257528/
Introductory Tweets and Chat Questions
Welcome to the #CripTheVote first-ever candidate chat with @ewarren! Remember to use the #CripTheVote hashtag when you tweet. For more information, read Senator Warren’s plan: Protecting the Rights and Equality of People with Disabilities.
We will ask 6 questions to @ewarren. Everyone is welcome to ask questions throughout the chat but there will be time set aside for engagement with community members in the last 15 minutes. #CripTheVote
Q1 @ewarren: Tell us about your engagement with the disability community so far and examples of your campaign’s access and inclusion. #CripTheVote
We will ask 6 questions to @ewarren. Everyone is welcome to ask questions throughout the chat but there will be time set aside for engagement with community members in the last 15 minutes. #CripTheVote
Q1 @ewarren: Tell us about your engagement with the disability community so far and examples of your campaign’s access and inclusion. #CripTheVote
Q2 @ewarren: What are some of the main things you learned from the disability community and how did it influence your overall vision of what you want to do if elected? #CripTheVote
Q3 @ewarren: Please share your policies and proposals that are focused on people with disabilities and how you developed them. #CripTheVote
Q4 @ewarren: How are disabled people involved in your campaign whether it’s staff, volunteers, advisors, or consultants? How will this continue in your administration if elected? #CripTheVote
Q5 @ewarren: Is there anything else you’d like to share with us about disability issues? #CripTheVote
Q6 @ewarren Do you have any questions you’d like to ask the disability community? #CripTheVote
At this time we’d like to open up the conversation to everyone with @ewarren. Feel free to ask questions or share your thoughts. Don’t forget to use the #CripTheVote tag!
This concludes our #CripTheVote candidate chat with @ewarren. Many thanks to Senator Warren, her team, and everyone for joining us today! Please keep the conversation going! A recap of this chat will be up shortly. For more: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/
FYI: We invite all Presidential candidates to schedule #CripTheVote chats similar to this one where they can answer these same questions and interact with disabled voters http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/2019/11/2020-cripthevote-candidate-chats.html Just send us an email: cripthevote@gmail.com
