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Dear Friend,

There’s a certain mindset in a committed cult member. Whether he’s a true believer or just willing to go along to achieve the goals of the leader, he will follow even the most ridiculous commands. He will do as the leader asks, even when it makes no sense and will do harm. Tom McClintock has become that ridiculous cult member, following the lead of a President who’s behavior has become self-destructive.

The evidence is clear: Masks work, shockingly well. COVID-19 is spread almost entirely through the air we breathe, and even talking to someone can result in transmission. As this chart shows, two months ago it already was becoming clear that the countries who were having the most success in suppressing the virus have one thing in common – their residents wear masks, either because of their culture or because their government has demanded it. Those countries have suffered the least amount of harm – in lives lost or injured, and damage to their economies – because they did that one critical thing. We could be like them, if we had done the same.

We needed to pause transmission in March and get a better understanding of this virus and how we can control it. We shut down our economy for two months, causing immense harm, because the alternative would have been worse. And in that time, we learned a lot about COVID-19. We learned, most importantly, how easily we could suppress this virus if everyone wore a mask. We should be that knowledge to work.

But the President doesn’t want to wear a mask. For whatever reason, he has decided to discourage the one simple step that could help this country re-open safely. And because he has managed to inspire an unusual level of devotion in his followers, too many Americans are going along with his self-destructive behavior. Tom McClintock is one of them. Instead of doing what a good political leader does and setting the right example, Tom McClintock has doubled down on his senseless definition of “freedom”. Without any recognition of the government’s long-held and acknowledged right to compel us to take action that will protect ourselves or others – we’re required to wear underwear when we leave the house, don a seatbelt when we drive, and dress appropriately when we enter a courtroom, to name a few – he insists that mandating masks infringes on rights protected by the Constitution. He’s ridiculous and he’s embracing a ridiculous and devastatingly self-destructive position.

California’s 4th District deserves better. We deserve a representative who sees our challenges with clear eyes and takes meaningful action to fix them. We deserve a representative who truly cares about what happens in this District. We deserve a representative who will fight for us.

Join us, as we fight to send Tom McClintock back to his own District, and to finally stop him from selling us out, one vote at a time. To learn more about the alternative, visit https://brynneforcongress.com/.

Because we know, as Margaret Mead said, that “a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

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Dear Friend,

We choose politicians to represent us in Washington, D.C., and in years past, we could look to our chosen representatives to model the behavior that would most benefit our society. No more – at least not for the politician currently representing California’s 4th District. Despite his recent call for Americans to “follow the science,” Tom McClintock thumbs his nose at the science that gives us the easiest path to stopping the spread of COVID-19.

Tom McClintock told his constituents last month that he doesn’t wear a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19. He said he’s being careful, and that’s enough. He’s part of a movement on the right that has, inexplicably and destructively, rejected masks. They’ve decided that masks are a political statement, and that’s more important than doing their part to stop the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask. They laugh at us, and sometimes attack us (verbally or physically) for choosing to be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem.

We’ve learned a lot about COVID-19 over the last few months, and we now know that the CDC grievously erred when its initial guidance downplayed the importance of wearing masks. The evidence points to airborne transmission as dominant in spreading the virus. Thus, as this Reuters article explains, “[p]opulation-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns.” In country after country, masks are making an enormous difference. And countries like Slovakia are succeeding in part because their leaders model the behavior that leads to their success. This makes sense. As this study shows, “leaders strongly shape their followers’ initial beliefs and contributions.” Brynne Kennedy knows this. She’s modeling the behavior we need and should expect from our leaders. But Tom McClintock, like the president he serves and too many politicians on the right, thumbs his nose at the science. He’s continuing down the path of defiance against this simple safety measure – a path that has led and will continue to lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths, countless permanent injuries, and untold pain and grief.

California’s 4th District deserves better. We deserve a representative who sees our challenges with clear eyes and takes meaningful action to fix them. We deserve a representative who truly cares about what happens in this District. We deserve a representative who will fight for us.

Join us, as we fight to send Tom McClintock back to his own District, and to finally stop him from selling us out, one vote at a time. To learn more about the alternative, visit https://brynneforcongress.com/.

Because we know, as Margaret Mead said, that “a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Paid for by Sierra Forward (www.sierraforward.com) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.Contributions are not tax deductible

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