Working Class Candidates for Congress

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Let’s track working class candidates for Congress. I find them interesting because they don’t have personal wealth or rich business ties to fund their candidacy.

And, of course, they don’t automatically support the agendas of corporations and the wealthy.

We can start with Brian Poindexter in Ohio:

An iron worker takes on one of Trump’s most loyal followers in Congress

“People are working harder and harder. We’re getting less and less and we’re getting more and more of the burden,” Brian Poindexter told the Guardian. “I’d like to see an economy that works for all of us, not just the wealthy. We need to build an economy that rewards work, not just wealth.”

Poindexter, a five-term councilman in Brook Park, Ohio, and apprenticeship instructor at Ironworkers Local 17, is the latest candidate from the labor movement to emerge as a potential pillar of the Democrats’ bid for control of the House in November’s midterm elections.

As the party fights to flip Ohio’s 7th congressional district, and take the seat from Miller, Poindexter is building his campaign around workers’ rights ahead of a competitive Democratic primary on 5 May.