I am running for U.S. Congress in New Hampshires 2nd Congressional District. I am a construction worker and U.S. Army veteran who has lived in Nashua, NH since I was a child.
I am running as an Independent and a member of Socialist Alternative to give a voice to the 99% during these corporate-dominated elections. The two parties of big business, Democrats and Republicans, have carried out budget cuts, attacks on civil liberties, and an assault on womens rights, all while strengthening corporate control in this country. They cut programs while scapegoating immigrants, union workers and others. Every cut and attack is another attempt to force working people pay for the economic crisis, a crisis created by the bankers, speculators and their system.
I am running because the two parties refuse to deal with the burning issues facing working people in any meaningful way. We need a massive jobs program to hire workers with union wages, benefits and rights to rebuild infrastructure, stop environmental destruction and provide the social services we need. We could pay for this by closing corporate tax loopholes and increasing taxes on corporations and the top 1%, as well as slashing spending on the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan while improving veteran services.
We can only win a jobs program through mobilizing unions and community groups in a movement that protests and educates, while building democratically run organizations. A mass movement for jobs and services against racism, sexism, layoffs, home foreclosures and budget cuts needs to be linked to political struggle in breaking from the two corporate parties. We need a party of working people, run democratically, with elected representatives who are accountable and only take the wage of the average worker.
Real change will never come from the puppets of big business. To get change in the past, we needed a big protest movement. My campaign will build a voice for the struggles against the capitalist system, and for a better future a democratic socialist future.