{"id":24481,"date":"2021-12-22T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=24481"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:40:44","slug":"dee-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/dee-ellison\/","title":{"rendered":"Dee Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Volunteering with people who share my values has been wonderful<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Finding UUSJ\u2019s Democracy Action Team (DAT), which I\u2019ve been active with since February, has been a gift for me. I\u2019ve been deeply concerned about the state of our democracy, which is in a crisis, and about the voting rights situation in our country.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I\u2019m terrified. I feel that our democracy itself truly is in danger, and wanted to do something \u2013 anything \u2013 that could make a difference and help get things back on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering with people who share my values has been wonderful. We\u2019ve been working hard to support two critical voting rights bills making their way (VERY slowly) through Congress.\u00a0 Fred van Deusen, DAT Convener, and UUSJ\u2019s executive director Pablo DeJes\u00fas, have done an outstanding job guiding the group. Frankly, I\u2019ve been surprised that, in our deeply partisan country, we\u2019ve been able to meet not only with Democratic Senators\u2019 staffers, but also that staffers of many Republican Senators have met with us!<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, it\u2019s been tough, but we have made progress. Working with these bright, talented, and deeply committed UUs has renewed my faith that, even in a small way, we are helping to get the votes needed to pass critical voting rights legislation, and help preserve our democracy. That would certainly make my heart happy.<\/p>\n<p>Dee Ellison<\/p>\n<p>UUSJ Democracy Action Team, Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteering with people who share my values has been wonderful Finding UUSJ\u2019s Democracy Action Team (DAT), which I\u2019ve been active with since February, has been a gift for me. I\u2019ve been deeply concerned about the state of our democracy, which is in a crisis, and about the voting rights situation in our country. Frankly, I\u2019m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/dee-ellison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dee Ellison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":24479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24482,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24481\/revisions\/24482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}