Team,

The fact of the matter is there aren’t that many people in Congress who have a background like mine. And it shows.

Right now, Kevin McCarthy and his fellow extremists are threatening to inflict devastating economic pain on every American family unless President Biden caves to an outrageous series of demands.

If the GOP plunges us into a reckless default on the nation’s debt, it will cost millions of jobs and cruelly send people across our nation into poverty.

That’s simply not something you do if you truly understand how Congress’s actions affect the lives of real people.

It’s not something you do, if, like me, you know what it’s like to work a register and wait tables to put yourself through school.

It’s not something you do if you empathize with the struggle of everyday Americans who work paycheck to paycheck just to put food on the table for their kids.

It’s not something you do if your reason for serving in Congress is about making people’s lives better — rather than simply exerting raw partisan power.

So, listen, I want you to know that I will continue trying to lead by example — and fight for the everyday Americans whose needs so often go overlooked in Congress.

If that’s the kind of leadership you’d like to see in Washington, I could really use your help to make sure I can continue serving our community in Congress beyond this term. Can I count on you to pitch in a few dollars? Any amount means the world to me and our entire team →

Instead of working together to strengthen our economy, our supply chain, and the U.S. dollar, Republicans are holding us hostage to the detriment of regular people like me. And I’m going to fight back, folks.

I know that the news is often grim and upsetting, but I want you to know that there is still plenty of reason for optimism that we can make progress together. And I will keep working to deliver that progress — because it’s what the people of Colorado’s 7th District sent me here to do.

Thank you,

Brittany Pettersen