Democratic Municipal Officials Digest
Week of 9/14/2020

DMO Update

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Quick Links

• They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

• There’s a Movement to Defund School Police, Too

• Strained Rural Water Utilities Buckle Under Pandemic Pressure

Ideas for Cities

• It’s Not Too Late! 3 Ways Your City Can Still Get an Accurate Census Count

• The End Loneliness Initiative is keeping seniors connected during quarantine

• People With Mental Heath Disabilities Have Ideas on How to Prevent More Police Shootings – “One reason police encounters can go wrong, I’ve learned, is that people with intellectual disabilities often struggle to comprehend spoken instructions – particularly in a high-stress situation.”

News for Democrats 

• National League of Cities is asking local leaders to remind the Biden campaign of their commitment to the Leading Together Cities Agenda, and share this letter with the campaign.

• The Drop Box Rises As a Compromise Between the Mail and the Voting Booth

• How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy – Lurid conspiracies have not only infected a significant number of voters, but have inoculated their minds against the fact-based responses Democrats rely on.

Pic of the Week

33% of polled Republicans believe the QAnon theory is “mostly true”, with another 23% believing it is “partly true”. While QAnon can mean many different things to different people, longtime Republican messaging about “elites” has likely primed Republicans to believe the wilder claims of this myth.