East Valley Moms for Kamala Gather in Gilbert and Praise the Harris/Walz Agenda

Restoring and Protecting Women’s Rights

Restoring and safeguarding Daughter’s Rights.

Restoring and preserving Granddaughter’s Rights.

American Democracy is secured from the threat of domestic terrorists and insurgents and the people who enable them.

Living in an Opportunity Economy that will lift people up, increase the Child Tax Credit, decrease the costs of Child Care, aid small business start-ups, and preserve the Affordable Care Act.

Having a President who is competent and can relate to the Middle and Working Class citizens of the nation.

A desire to not have a sequel to the first Trump Administration.

The need to get out and go door to door and spread the word that there is really one choice for the nation, the American People, and the forward direction of the country this November.

The Harris/Walz Ticket

Those were the sentiments expressed by the featured speakers and many of the three dozen suburban moms and their children from Maricopa County’s East Valley gathered at the FuseFlex Space in Gilbert to voice their support for the forward and enlightened Harris/Walz agenda while also denouncing the backward and repressive Dark Age Back to the 1920’s Project 2025 goals of the Trump/Vance ticket.

The organizer of tonights event and first featured speaker of the evening, Becky Wright spoke of how Vice President Kamala Harris, unlike Mr. Trump, “Understands this struggle raised by a working mom in a middle class household. She’s committed to fighting for families like ours and creating a future that works for all.”

Ms. Wright then listed the “transformative” programs that the Harris/Walz ticket is proposing that will help the women in the room. Those include:

• Expanding the Child Tax Credit.
• Greater Funding assistance for small businesses.
• Cutting through unnecessary red tape.

Later, after the event, when asked about the importance of electing the Vice President, she said:

“For me, this is a high-stakes election because of policy, character, but just really how it’s going to affect me personally on a day-to-day basis. Kamala Harris just has so much more to offer me. Personally, I don’t need the rerun of the Trump presidency. I don’t need to see that again.”

She also marveled that her 14-year-old daughter may have the opportunity in four years to maybe cast a vote to reelect “the first woman President.”

Kelsey Glynn followed Ms. Wright and spoke about both the joy of motherhood but also the challenges like finding affordable child care.

She also spoke of how she cried for her daughter when Roe v Wade was overturned, saying:

“Everything is on the line this election. Our children’s future. Our family’s future and the future of our country. Let’s picture what the America would look like if mothers came first. This election will be a choice between two very different visions of our future. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz fighting for a new way forward that protects reproductive Freedom, strengthens our democracy and ensures that every person has an opportunity to not just by but to get ahead. As a mom, I’m voting for Vice President Harris and Governor Walz because they trust women to make decisions about when to start and if they would like to grow their families… Donald Trump repeatedly bragged about overturning Roe, ripping away reproductive, freedom, and has refused to say if he would veto a national portion. That’s not the future. I want for my children…Moms know better and we will not be dismissed ignored or treated as if we do not have a voice.”

Later Ms. Glynn added after the event:

“It is so important to me for them (her children) for their future, for the future of all mothers. For me, I think about paid leave. I think about affordable child care. I think about maternal health of women and the mortality rate of moms, giving birth and to me that is all on the line, this coming election and reproductive freedom. And all of that is for the future of my children to live in a better world.”

Former Congressional Candidate Marlene Galan Woods spoke next and scored laughs when she told the audience that, unlike Kari Lake, she was a “normal” former journalist. She also received laughs when she reminded the guests about Mr. Trump’s inability to articulate how he would pay for an expansion of childcare aid. The attendees also heaped scorn on J.D. Vance when Ms. Woods reminded them of his suggestion to solve the affordable childcare crisis by having Grandma and Grandpa help out more.

She also spoke about the demands many families across the country face every week in making expenses work to afford child care.

She praised the Harris/Walz plan to reduce the average cost of a family’s household income toward child care from twelve to seven percent.

On comparing the perspectives on life from the two Presidential Nominees, Ms. Woods said:

“Kamala Harris believes in the way that we’re going to move forward, not backward. Look, Donald Trump has never had to worry about much… Donald Trump has never worried about dropping off a child at school or picking up a child at school. He’s just untethered from the reality of working every day, Americans.”

Calling the guest to action over the next 41 days until Election Day, she said:

“We have to spread out like an army to get our friends to vote. To get out to the person who’s still kind of wavering…because our rights are on the line. Your girl’s rights are on the line. Your daughters, your granddaughters, your nieces, our rights as Citizens are on the line. And the economy. The speech Vice President Harris gave (in Pittsburgh earlier in the day) proves that she is the competent one in the room.”

“Donald Trump will throw us into a catastrophe. And now Mark Cuban agrees too…We can convince people with kindness and dignity. That this is the best way to go. So let’s go, let’s get the job done.”

Nicole Stanton, Arizona House Representative Greg Stanton’s wife spoke last and reminded everyone that it was Donald Trump that enabled the January 6, 2021, Domestic Insurrectionists that threatened her husband’s life.

She also reminded the guests that Donald Trump and his Project 2025 supporters would like to gut and repeal the Affordable Care Act, a health care program that helped Mrs. Stanton to survive breast cancer and allowed the Stantons to keep their home, furniture, and cats.

Calling Mr. Trump “an embarrassment” for his chaotic administration and his outlandish mismanagement of the Coronavirus pandemic and for not following the scientific recommendations of the time, she said, “We’ve seen this movie and we don’t want to go to the sequel.”

She received a lot of laughs when she said she would vote “for toilet water” over Trump.

She also blasted Trump and his Project 2025 goal of eliminating the Department of Education, saying “We don’t need to be cutting funding. We need to be enhancing funding for education.”

On Mr. Trumps goal of cutting taxes for the wealthy, Mrs. Stanton said, “We don’t need that either flying around on airplanes engaging in sex trafficking and all the other things that seem to surround Donald Trump. That’s not the kind of world I want for my daughter. I know it’s not the type of world you want for your kids.”

On the need to get out the vote, she echoed Ms. Woods, relaying:

“Winning elections is not with the pretty signs? It’s honestly not even the TV commercials. It’s walking door to door. Person to person. Conversation by conversation and making phone call after phone call…It’s the hard work of a campaign but it’s also the work that’s going to result in Vice President Harris and Governor Walz becoming the next President and Vice President of the United States. So with that, let’s go get it done.”

After the event, numerous guests expressed their views on why they were supporting Vice President Harris.

Kyle Ames said:

“She has something solid for us to look forward to that’s going to help the middle class. It’s going to help working parents. It’s going to help mothers, particularly lowering costs of child care, and her efforts to help our maternal mortality rates and our maternal health care in general.”

Tiffany Starling relayed:

“I absolutely think she’s going to keep women in the workforce. I think, right now, women are having to choose between quality child care, and keeping their careers. And I think she’s got a plan that will support families and particularly mothers in caring for their children. Additionally, I’m absolutely voting for her because I am very concerned about my daughter’s rights going forward.“

Sharon Zygowlcasz offered:

“Kamala Harris has an economic agenda and I don’t think Trump really does. I don’t even think he understands how tariffs work. I think he just throws words out there because in his mind, it sounds good. But she can break down specific policy oriented things that she’s going to do.”

Pamela McArdle commented:

“Because she looks after real families and is going to make sure that my family is one of the ones that is taken care of versus the top two percent.”

Meredith Smith stated:

“She is looking out for women’s rights and girls rights. And that I can go to her website and it’s actually a drop-down where she goes through individual points. When I went to Trump’s, there’s no drop-down. It’s just vague ideas. And on hers I can go down and see the exact point she makes and what she’s going to do when she gets in office and I appreciate that.”

Kayla Etheridge conveyed:

“The biggest thing that stands out for me with Vice President Harris, is that she’s fighting for rights that are on the line that I don’t feel should be on the line. Reproductive Rights specifically. I have a child who I used a fertility clinic to have. And the idea that somebody wants to remove that or wants to think that it’s their business that I did that, that I needed that support. It doesn’t sit well with me. I’m not a single issue voter, but that is my biggest thing. I’m just excited to restore the rights that shouldn’t have been taken away from the first place.”

Maria Bertram said:

“I just think, she’s brilliant. She’s super sharp. Her law experience. And so now where she has been the Vice President. I think that she just makes a lot of sense for supporting working people and for the middle class. She understands what we need and what will be impactful for us.”

Brittany Mortensen stated:

“I have been won over by her during the last couple of months. Her economic plan where she is fighting for the middle class and working Families. It’s Honestly a no-brainer for me. She has the best vision economically and for human rights.”