Osborn is backed by small donors and labor, and according to polling is leading the race by 2 points.
Recent studies of lawmakers in the United States have found that less than 2% of those serving on Capitol Hill held blue-collar jobs before they were elected. That percentage drops even further among the nearly 7,300 state legislators across all 50 states, according to researchers at Duke University and Loyola University Chicago, whothat only 81 of those legislators were previously employed in working-class jobs.
reported on a poll conducted by Change Research, which found Osborn leading Fischer by a margin of 2 points eight-hour shift, and all weekend long. So, part of what influenced your decision to avoid a party label and to run as an independent was to tap into that growing electorate demographic? I’ve always worked in an industrial setting, but doing a lot of things that you could compare to farming jobs. One of them is wrenching on equipment.
I wanted to stress the importance of the issue for those who might think it’s not that big of a deal. Okay, so I would have had to pay $200 more dollars for an alternator. But what if I had to pay $500 more because I had to take it into a dealership to buy one? That’s just an added cost onto an already inflated economy. And it’s nickel-and-diming everybody. It all adds up.
That’s the nicest way I can put it. I was going to say something worse. So, yeah, it’s frustrating to see. And the small family farms are getting choked out, because they’re forced to settle for however much they can sell their cattle to the large meat producers or they are forced into only buying Monsanto seeds — all these are practices that only benefit the huge corporate farms.
Are there particular reforms that if you were elected you would support in terms of limiting the influence of big money in politics?
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