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Fikre for Virginia: I’m Running for Congress Not as a Privileged Politician but as a Worker Who Knows Your Struggle

Post by teodroseIII » 27 Feb 2022, 18:58

If I am entrusted with your vote and have the opportunity to serve you as a Congressman, what you will get is someone who knows and experiences your struggles. I understand first-hand about the economic anxieties the vast majority of Americans feel because I am currently working full time as an IT Project Manager while driving Uber on the side to make ends meet. I feel the pinch every time I am forced to pay a toll to access the same roads we paid for with our tax dollars. I pack my lunch in the mornings so I can avoid paying $10 for a sandwich and chips.

These are struggles my opponent will never understand after making a fortune thanks to Obama’s “Consumer and Automotive Recovery Act of 2008” while tens of millions of Americans were having their homes foreclosed upon. I don’t feel your pain, I am living it daily. While the Beltway crowd are forking over hundreds of dollars for caviar and Chablis and lecturing us about conservation as they use up energy that could fuel entire villages in my birth land Ethiopia to light up their homes, the rest of us are being ground into dust. To make up for these injustices, they give us token faces and hashtags lacking substance to represent progress...continued...

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