Don't Vote Your Ossoff! Vote For Randy Bryce!
When I see Randy Bryce, I see my father. He's dressed like him in his work clothes and work boots. He's got the stickers of all of his union affiliations on his hard hat. They're both middle aged. However, they are also different. Mr. Bryce lives in Wisconsin while my father lives in Hawaii; and while Mr. Bryce is an Ironworker, my father is a Carpenter. Regardless of those differences and commonalities, they share an even greater commonality: they are working men. Men who know what its like to put in a hard days work and to bust their asses for a decent wage.
Of course, this isn't just about men, but women too. My mother is a Lab Technician in a car factory in Kentucky. One Grandmother was the first female Slot Machine Mechanic at the Binion's Horsehoe in Las Vegas; while the other is a Cook at Paris Las Vegas.
And just to add to the long line of working class people that I am descended from: One Grandfather was a welder and a Air Force Veteran. One Great Grandfather was a coal and borax miner. If times were tough and the work in the mines wasn't steady, my Great Grandmother would sometimes go to work in a local diner. Another Great Grandfather worked on the railroads - he provided for 17 children, some of them his own while some of them his nieces and nephews.
It's refreshing to see someone like Randy Bryce running for office because when I see him, I see my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents. All blue collar working people and all cut from the same cloth.
Unfortunately, people like my parents are not represented in their state legislatures, in their governorships, in Congress, and certainly not in the Presidency. And in the past 40 or so years, they've been getting screwed over. Unions have been curtailed, pensions have been converted into 401k's, wages have stagnated, and health insurance costs have only doubled and trippled and quadrupled.
Meanwhile, we've been conned into thinking this is all a good thing. After all, the freer the markets, the freer the people, right?
Wrong!
At the expense of working people, our representatives at the municipal, state, and federal levels have gotten richer and richer, and reelected time and again because they benefit not just off of our tax dollars, but off of the sale of our hard work. At the expense of working people, CEOs and stockholders have gotten richer. Gone are the unions, the penisons, the wage increases, and affordable health insurance. The only thing that has gotten freer is the labor, which is performed at wage levels that have remained essentially the same since the 1980s!
We need to get behind people like Randy Bryce and others who truly understand what its like to earn a paycheck. We need people who haven't forgotten where they come from, unlike Paul Ryan, who seems to forget that his college was paid for by Social Security death benefits. We need people who are real and don't pretend to comprehend the daily lives of the American people, unlike Donald Trump, who has never worked a day in his life!
We need true, patriotic Americans as our representatives - not corporate shills and bottomless pocket billionaires.
Lets actually make America great by voting for Americans! That's why I'm for Randy Bryce!
I hope to see more of him and others like him, standing up for real Americans.
Of course, this isn't just about men, but women too. My mother is a Lab Technician in a car factory in Kentucky. One Grandmother was the first female Slot Machine Mechanic at the Binion's Horsehoe in Las Vegas; while the other is a Cook at Paris Las Vegas.
And just to add to the long line of working class people that I am descended from: One Grandfather was a welder and a Air Force Veteran. One Great Grandfather was a coal and borax miner. If times were tough and the work in the mines wasn't steady, my Great Grandmother would sometimes go to work in a local diner. Another Great Grandfather worked on the railroads - he provided for 17 children, some of them his own while some of them his nieces and nephews.
It's refreshing to see someone like Randy Bryce running for office because when I see him, I see my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents. All blue collar working people and all cut from the same cloth.
Unfortunately, people like my parents are not represented in their state legislatures, in their governorships, in Congress, and certainly not in the Presidency. And in the past 40 or so years, they've been getting screwed over. Unions have been curtailed, pensions have been converted into 401k's, wages have stagnated, and health insurance costs have only doubled and trippled and quadrupled.
Meanwhile, we've been conned into thinking this is all a good thing. After all, the freer the markets, the freer the people, right?
Wrong!
At the expense of working people, our representatives at the municipal, state, and federal levels have gotten richer and richer, and reelected time and again because they benefit not just off of our tax dollars, but off of the sale of our hard work. At the expense of working people, CEOs and stockholders have gotten richer. Gone are the unions, the penisons, the wage increases, and affordable health insurance. The only thing that has gotten freer is the labor, which is performed at wage levels that have remained essentially the same since the 1980s!
We need to get behind people like Randy Bryce and others who truly understand what its like to earn a paycheck. We need people who haven't forgotten where they come from, unlike Paul Ryan, who seems to forget that his college was paid for by Social Security death benefits. We need people who are real and don't pretend to comprehend the daily lives of the American people, unlike Donald Trump, who has never worked a day in his life!
We need true, patriotic Americans as our representatives - not corporate shills and bottomless pocket billionaires.
Lets actually make America great by voting for Americans! That's why I'm for Randy Bryce!
I hope to see more of him and others like him, standing up for real Americans.
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