When I decided to run for Congress five months ago, I knew from the outset that I did not want to run a conventional campaign but to try something altogether different. The last thing I wanted to do was to become another politician, instead, I yearned to do my part to change the callowness of our public discourse and offer an alternative to the “us vs them” rhetoric that is Balkanizing our country and tearing society apart.
What I did not mention at that time was that I was enduring a family ordeal that made the two-year bout of homelessness I encountered in 2015 seem like child’s play in comparison. It was in the throes of this hardship that I decided to run for Congress, the echoes of my father who passed away in 2001 rang in my ear as his spirit beckoned me to turn a moment of difficulty into an occasion of inspiration....continued...
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