SENATOR CAT DADDY

Hey Gritty Kitties. Welcome to another episode of Catty Chats.

Please note that in this special episode of Catty Chats LIVE from a campaign event in Detroit, the video interview starts after the audio-only intro.

I’m Blaire Postman, founder of Cat Ladies for America and host of the Catty Chats podcast.

We are gonna do a short little special episode of Catty Chats. We are on a bit of a summer hiatus as we get ready for Season 2.

We're booking guests, and we're working on new formats. We're gonna have a lot of exciting new twists for when we come back in mid- to late-August with full episodes every week, but we're also on the road a bit this campaign season.

And this episode is a short interview that I got to have with Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, as well as some of the comments that he made at a rally that I was able to attend when I was visiting back in July.

Now, this rally had all kinds of folks: It had AOC. It had Bernie Sanders. It had the president of the UAW, Shawn Fain. It had all kinds of folks there supporting him.

And what I really noticed was just how practical everything that they were talking about supporting was to me.

And how strange it was that from the outside when I would see critics or hear critics of Abdul El-Sayed so often call him dangerous, which didn't make any sense to me because as someone who has health insurance from my day job it still has gotten so much worse.

It sort of sucks. And I'm lucky enough to have it. So Medicare for all doesn't seem crazy.

The idea that we want accountability for ICE and for the Department of Defense, and explaining where they are spending their billions of dollars when they are cutting aid for food and security when they are cutting aid for all sorts of benefit programs that help people who are trying to get on their feet and stay there it just seemed really practical to me.

And I look at my own senator, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and he and Abdul El-Sayed seem to agree on all kinds of things.

They agree on eradicating ICE and doing immigration in a different way.

They agree on accountability for the people who are in power and where they are spending our tax dollars.

They agree that the enrichment of the current members of the administration and their families seeming to make deals for themselves at the expense of the U.S. government — all that is wrong that we should have basic freedoms and support the First Amendment.

I don't hear people regularly calling Chris Van Hollen a radical or dangerous in the mainstream media.

And so I guess I don't understand what makes Abdul El-Sayed radical or dangerous if Chris Van Hollen is not also considered radical or dangerous.

We're also going to be going out there for election night. So we'll have a dispatch from there as well as some other possible races

Make sure you tune in on August 9th. We'll still be having our CATTY CHATS LIVE! with two candidates and insurgent candidates who are trying to flip red seats in different states across the country.

If you missed our first one from back in July you can find that on YouTube, Substack, and wherever get your audio podcasts.