[1]Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate

Hi John, it’s Lucas Kunce.

The community that supported my family after we were bankrupted by my
littlest sister’s medical bills is what motivated me to run against Josh
Hawley for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat. Please let me explain:

[ [link removed] ]Two photos from Lucas' childhood. Photo on the left of him as a child
sitting on a front porch with other children. Photo on the right of him
and his family and neighbors standing in the street looking up at a
rainbow.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in mid-Missouri. It was one of
those places where the curbs crumbled into the streets and the sidewalks
were so tilted you couldn’t really walk on them — though they made a
pretty good bike ramp for all of us kids.

We all ran in and out of each other’s houses, everyone’s parents took care
of everyone. It was a magical place to live.

Like so many families, mine lived paycheck-to-paycheck — and when my
littlest sister was born with a heart condition, we were bankrupted by
medical bills.

Our family got by thanks to the generosity of our community — most people
had no more money than we did, but helped us anyway. Our neighbors and
friends took the rest of us kids into their homes while my parents were
with my sister at the hospital over 100 miles away. And when we were all
home together, they brought more meals by the house than we could ever
hope to eat.

Their support helped me go to college, and after that I joined the Marines
to honor everything our community did for me and my family growing up.

But when I came home between tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, I found that
old magical place picked for parts — our local corner store was boarded
up, our family’s first home in the neighborhood was bulldozed to the
ground.

Now it’s an empty lot:

[ [link removed] ]Photo of an empty lot.

While all of us were risking our lives to build up towns like Habbaniyah,
Fallujah, and Herat, career politicians and corporate elites like Josh
Hawley let our towns and neighborhoods at home waste away. And then, after
spending 20 years and $6.4 trillion on pointless forever wars and defense
contractors, they couldn’t figure out how to invest a fraction of that
amount back into our own country.

I’m running for U.S. Senate because it’s time everyday Missourians —
people who know how to take care of each other, like the ones in my old
neighborhood — called the shots in this country. [ [link removed] ]And today, I’m asking
for your support to help me make it happen.

[ [link removed] ]Photo of Lucas with two constituents holding a flag.

If you’re ready to take back power from the giant corporations and
corrupt, career politicians who’ve waged economic warfare on our country,
I need you on this team, John.
[ [link removed] ]Will you add a $10 donation to my campaign right now so
we’ll have the resources we need to get our message in front of voters and
flip this U.S. Senate seat? I don’t take any money from corporate PACs, so
I mean it when I say anything makes a big impact.

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I can’t tell you how much it means to me that you’re on this
team, John. Together, we’ll
take back power for working people and fundamentally change who calls the
shots in our country.

Thanks for being part of it,

Lucas Kunce


 


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