Deep Challenges Affect Rural Americans

To improve the 'State of our District,' we need solution-based leadership that promotes economic opportunity, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and more.

This is the last month of the fundraising quarter, and we're off to a slower-than-usual start for March. Thank you for considering pitching in tonight. Every dollar counts and will enable me to continue my efforts to break the GOP's hold on rural America.

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Friend,

Before 2000, rural and urban Americans did not vote all that differently, but this has changed rapidly over the last generation, and by 2022, 74% voted GOP nationwide.

We are worse off because of it. We earn about 10-20% less than our urban counterparts, but our living costs are the same. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Our youth are leaving, we are aging, and our graduates aren't staying.

Liberals and "wokeness" didn't kill the family farm and bring manufacturing jobs overseas. 

College professors didn't pour mountains of opioids into rural communities. 

Immigrants didn't shutter rural hospitals and let rural infrastructure decay.

It was corporations prioritizing profit before 'We, the People'. It was decades of neglect, poor Congressional leadership, divestment, and the abandonment of rural ideals. 

Friend, I'm not just here to sell doom and gloom. I want to offer all of us hope. It doesn't have to be this way.

To bring economic opportunity to rural America and make the American Dream more of a reality, we need:

• Strong schools
• Good broadband and other vital infrastructure, including healthcare
• An affordable place to live with strong families, clean air, water, and land.
• And let's remember family planning - the ability to plan when to raise children.

This is what Democrats like me support. Democrats may have lost the voters in rural areas, but I'll never lose faith in our ability to be better, our ability to change - to elect common-sense, principled leadership to reverse the tide.

WE CAN DO THIS!

It is up to us. We must:

• Focus on creating a recreation-based economy to replace the old one based on resource extraction. 
• Provide a welcoming environment to promote diversity and be an engine of revitalization
• Resist the predations of corporate consolidation and promote small businesses.

We need to create a movement with a vision for the future with all of us.

Our future depends on it.

Thank you for your continued support. 

-Dr. Bob

Bob Lorinser

Candidate for US Congress

Northern Michigan / Upper Peninsula

Democrat, MI01

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