Hi John,
I grew up in a small borough in Western PA, where we have so many great close-knit communities and main streets. Every day, I talk with voters who are worried that their communities are being left behind.
Today, I want to spotlight just one of those towns: Ambridge in Beaver County, PA. Ambridge is part of the district I serve in Congress, and it's also a prime example of how small towns in Western PA built America.
Ambridge was a steel town, where the American Bridge plant employed thousands of workers and built a strong community. American Bridge workers made some of the most famous bridges and buildings in the world – the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Empire State Building, and the Sears Tower.
But when lousy trade deals shipped steel production overseas, jobs and businesses in the community dried up. At its height, Ambridge supported over 20,000 people. Now, the population has more than halved.
It's a story that thousands of people in Western PA have felt. That story needs to end here.
We should be making sh*t here, in Western PA, and making it with union workers. Towns like Ambridge never agreed to ship jobs overseas or make Wall Street and foreign companies rich at our expense.
Will you join my campaign to fight for small towns like Ambridge, invest in American workers, and bring back strong union jobs that will support our families – not corporate jagoffs?
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Thank you for joining me in fighting for small towns in Western PA and all across America, John.
– Chris Deluzio
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