2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CONTACT INFORMATION by Dede Ranahan

May 8, 2019 Dede Ranahan

I’m researching 2020 presidential contact information. My intent is to write/email the candidates 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 that includes a place to comment. 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 and use or to help draft your own message. Let’s flood 2020 presidential candidates with letters about what is 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

Cory Booker

Steve Bullock
https://act.ourbigskyvalues.org/page/s/contact-us

Pete Buttigieg
info@peteforamerica.com

Julian Castro

Bill de Blasio

John Delaney
info@johndelaney.com
PO Box 70835
Bethesda, MD 20813