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Writer, parent, science and public health advocate, Wisconsin transplant in California. 

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California, Democratic Party, Family, Los Angeles, Personal, Politics, Politics, Poverty, Quotidian, Writing

The political is personal: week 6 of the COVID-19 social isolation, 2020, random day’s log

Apr 24, 2020 | No Comments

Yesterday between other political, domestic, family, and minimal self-care tasks* I was on two really good zoom calls. One was essentially about the importance of data-driven political organizing and education and the critical youth vote and one was about pretty much the same thing, and how to help good candidates get their message out and […]


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Susan Sheu – candidate for LACDP CC AD 50

Jan 27, 2020 | No Comments

Hi all – Here is my candidate bio for the March 3, 2020, election for the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee, to represent the Democratic voters in my assembly district – which consists of the communities of Agoura Hills, Topanga, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, Santa Monica, parts of West LA, Beverly […]


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California, Democratic Party, Family, Los Angeles, Personal, Politics, Poverty, Writing

The “wine mom centrist” speaks (the 2020 primary election sucks)

Jan 13, 2020 | No Comments

Since people are sharing their stories of supporting Elizabeth Warren while not being “elite,” here’s mine. I think I’m inspired because some rando “socialist” bro just referred to me as a “wine mom centrist” on Twitter, and I have lost IQ points just writing those words. I have supported a couple of different candidates in […]


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