Can I explain somethingfolks?

I grew up in a twenty-four-by-thirty-six foot house. I lost three fingers on my left hand in a meat-grinding accident when I was a kid. I am and always will be a farmer, like my folks and like my grandparents.

In fact, I’m very proud to be the only U.S. Senator who manages a full-time job outside the Senate - as a farmer.

Every spring, I spend a lot of weeks working the stubble, getting equipment ready for planting, and out in the field seeding. Come summer, I am out there harvesting. I maintain my own heavy equipment and deliver my grain in a truck that’s a bit bigger than what any of my colleagues drive.

I buy grease by the case and seeds by the ton. I butcher my own beef. My wife, Sharla, and I work the farm hand-in-hand.

The task of scheduling my work in the Senate around the inflexible timing of farm responsibilities drives my staff crazy — but they know my farm work is non-negotiable. It keeps me, quite literally, grounded.

And rather than spend my days hobnobbing with Republican special interests, I rely on hard-working folks like you to power everything we do.

That’s why I’m personally asking you to join my reelection team and split $10 between the DLCC’s Grassroots Victory PAC and my campaign today to help us block Mitch McConnell from taking back the Senate and build Democratic power in state legislatures nationwide. Anything you can give makes a difference.

Thank you so much for sticking by me. I promise to spend every ounce of time fighting for you and your families (when I’m not out in the field, of course).

- Jon