I’m researching 2020 presidential contact information. My intent is to write/email each candidate to ask, “What is your national plan or policy regarding the care and treatment of individuals who live with serious mental illnesses (SMI) such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, clinical depression, OCD, etc.?”
I collected the following information from campaign websites. Not all offer contact information. Some offer info@theirnames. It’s not clear if these email addresses go to staff or if they actually reach the nominee. John Delaney, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, and Andrew Yang offer PO Box addresses.
If you have contact information for any of these candidates that I didn’t include, please send that information to me and I’ll update this list.
At the moment, SMI has not been mentioned in presidential town halls. Questions are asked about drug/alcohol programs but not about care/treatment for the seriously mentally ill. We have to introduce this topic into the presidential town halls, debates, and the 2020 campaigns. If SMI is not included in election discourse, what chance is there that it will be a priority in national programs going forward?
Tomorrow, I’ll post a sample letter that I’ll be sending to all the people on this list. Feel free to copy or to help draft your own message. Let’s flood 2020 presidential candidates with letters about what’s important to us — national attention to SMI issues.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
Donald Trump
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contact/
John Weld
info@weld2020.org
DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES
Michael Bennet
info@michaelbennet.com
Joe Biden - go.joebiden.com
Cory Booker - booker.sente.gov
Steve Bullock
https://act.ourbigskyvalues.org/page/s/contact-us
Pete Buttigieg
info@peteforamerica.com
Julian Castro
info@julianforthefuture.com
Bill de Blasio
John Delaney
info@johndelaney.com
PO Box 70835
Bethesda, MD 20813
Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.tulsi2020.com/contact
Kristen Gillibrand - gillibrand.senate.gov
Mike Gravel
https://www.mikegravel.org/contact/
Kamala Harris
info@kamalaharris.org
John Hickenlooper
info@hickenlooper.com
Jay Inslee
https://www.jayinslee.com/contact
Amy Klobuchar (Has a plan for drug/alcohol addiction and mental health. SMI?
info@amyklobuchar.com
Amy for America
PO Box 18360
Minneapolis, MN 55418
Seth Moulton
Beto O’Rourke
PO Box 3628
El Paso, Texas
Tim Ryan
1126 Longworth HOB
Washington D.C. 20515
Bernie Sanders
PO Box 391
Burlington, Vt. 05402
Eric Swalwell
info@ericswalwell.com
Elizabeth Warren
https://elizabethwarren.com
Andrew Yang
Friends of Andrew Yang
PO Box 214
Midtown Station
New York, NY 10018
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