Why Gareth Rhodes is considering running for Congress In New Yorks 19th District.

[Historic NY]

Here is a young Democrat with his head screwed on straight like Ossoff. Instead of old, was been, running around with decades old stump speech. This is the new face of the Demcratic Party that we should be supporting.


Last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to strip 24 million Americans of their health care. As we watched Republicans move toward making domestic violence and sexual assault, C-sections and postpartum depression preexisting conditions, cases of beer were wheeled into the Capitol and buses pulled up to take the grinning members to celebrate at the White House.

Here in the Hudson Valley and Catskills, more than 50,000 people may lose their health care because of last week’s vote. And our so-called “representative” John Faso refuses to hold a town meeting. Our community has zero tolerance for this failed leadership and we will not be silenced.

I was born in rural Ulster County and grew up working on a vegetable farm in the Town of Esopus. I went straight to work after graduating from Kingston High School, drilling water wells across the Hudson Valley and working weekend shifts at Frank’s Deli in Marlboro. With the help of Pell grants and financial aid, I became the first in my family to earn a four-year degree, graduating from CUNY. I entered public service with the Governor’s office in Albany, and was fortunate enough to go to Harvard Law School.

Folks who are from here will tell you that we take care of our own, particularly when times are tough. When we are under attack, we fight back. When the Hudson River was polluted by General Electric, we fought for years — led by heroes like Pete Seeger — to make sure they paid to clean it up. When the floods of Hurricane Irene devastated small towns in the Catskills and destroyed farms and homes across the Hudson Valley, we helped each other get back on our feet. When my mother was diagnosed with cancer shortly after I was born, the health care facilities in this community were there to provide her with care and treatment, and when she died, this community and our neighbors supported my family during that difficult time.



https://medium.com/@GarethRhodes/our-time-why-im-considering-running-for-congress-in-new-york-s-19th-district-e7600d18154

[MagickMuffin]

1. Sounds like he has a Great Story to run on

His message sounds like he'd be able to connect to people in his district.

Run, Gareth, Run. We need people like you who care about people like us!!!