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With the risk of just copying someone else’s work, I don’t think I could find a better piece in support of Jen Schultz for 8th Congressional District congress person to the U.S. House of Representatives than the powerful endorsement by Forum Communications, owner of 7 different news publications across the district including the Duluth News Tribune.
It reads: “For 8 years, Jen Schultz served in a politically divided state legislature – and was able to get important measures passed anyway to help everyday Minnesotans facing addiction, mental health challenges, homelessness, difficulties affording their prescription drugs, and other matters. She has stepped up where government is counted on to provide help and make a real difference.” … “Working behind the scenes and across the aisle, with a willingness to give and take, builds the sort of bipartisan relationships and support that gets things done and that have helped build Schultz’s record.”
Although in 2018, they endorsed her opponent, Pete Stauber, they now write: the “District largely has been abandoned by an incumbent seemingly more focused on party, and even extreme tangents within his party, than on the people he was elected to serve.” … “Stauber’s votes increasingly have become partisan rather than what’s in the best interest of Minnesota and his constituents. He voted against lowering pharmaceutical and insulin costs, against an independent investigation of Jan. 6, against equal pay, and against grants to make needed repairs to regional airports, as just a few examples. Despite voting against the airport grants, he attempted to publicly tout them anyway.”
“Stauber is no longer the same devoted representative Northeastern Minnesota first sent to D.C. on our behalf in 2018. He’s become unresponsive to constituents and the media alike. This fall he declined to participate in a candidate forum co-hosted by the Duluth News Tribune and the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce, a forum that over a decade has become the pre-eminent election season event for the 8th District, the best chance for voters to hear from candidates. This was the first time a candidate declined to participate. Stauber’s refusal to answer questions in a public setting and in the largest most populated city in his district seems indicative of his disappointing but emerging party-first/constituents second representation.”
Stauber didn’t respond to a request for an interview for the editorial, whereas Schultz had already submitted to the Duluth News Tribune’s A Candidate’s View: When we invest in people, we all do better, 9/16/22, with a quite complete background on herself, her legislative accomplishments, voting record, endorsements, and ways her opponent has not met people’s needs.
Jen Schultz also has endorsements from: MN AFL-CIO, Duluth Area & Iron Range Building Trades, USW-District 11, NE Area Labor Council, Education MN, National Nurses United, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and more. She has pledged not to accept corporate PAC money and will be accountable and accessible to the people. … “voters can be impressed and can appreciate Schultz’s background as an economist which helps inform her public service and gives her expertise in important issues like housing, childcare, and health care. The result is better informed and just better policy.”
“I will represent everyone, Schultz vowed, in stark contrast to the current representation.” … ”with a focus on strengthening our democracy.”
Barbara Lund Gabler, Lutsen
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