Everyone wants affordable housing, health care, medications, child care, and other necessities without leaving bills unpaid. This level of financial security allows families to help young people fund educational options that best suit their abilities and interests, whether it’s college or trade/technical school.
These issues are personal for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and have inspired her to run for the WA-03 Congressional seat. She and her husband own an independent auto repair shop, and they’re raising their toddler in a challenging economy. They can’t afford child care and can only afford health insurance for their son. They struggle to make payroll, navigate complex small business regulations, and hire qualified employees because there’s a trade school shortage.
Marie has the lived experience, economics education, and a solid plan to improve daily life for Southwest Washingtonians. She will tackle the high cost of living on several fronts:
She intends to take on big pharma so we can pay for the drugs we need. Marie will work to ease the regulatory burden on small businesses, and she will advocate expanding trade school and technical training options.
Her opponent will do none of these things. He is running a slick, well-funded, fear-based campaign to dismantle the resources we depend on for stability, security and safety. He welcomes the support of far-right extremists and conspiracy cults. He wants to replace Social Security and Medicare with private programs that are vulnerable to stock market volatility, defund the FBI, hobble public health programs, cut all Planned Parenthood funding (that meets a wide range of women’s health care needs), deregulate health care (which will profit insurers), prevent immigration for the next 20 years (devastating farmers’ ability to harvest seasonal crops, further increasing food prices, and preventing the best and brightest from contributing to American innovation), and starve public classrooms of much-needed funds.
Marie doesn’t accept PAC or corporate money, so she will work for us. Her opponent is funded by billionaires and corporate interests, and he will owe them favors.
Let’s all vote for Marie to improve our daily lives, fight corruption, preserve our democracy, and keep her MAGA Republican opponent out of public office.
Janet Birgenheier,
Ridgefield
