Dear Friends:

My mom was one of 13 children raised on a hardscrabble farm in rural Texas. Others had it worse. Grandpa had some income as a rural postal letter carrier which he was for nearly 40 years.

Mom married young. She had a son, my older brother, whom she would live to see die at the age of 34 as a consequence of his service in Vietnam. The grief stayed with her the rest of her life.

Not too long after I was born, she gathered up the courage to leave her alcoholic and abusive husband. She had nothing. No job and no prospects.


The phone company took her as an operator and she walked nearly two miles to and from work every day making a life for her two boys. She would go on to marry a man who became my adoptive father and together they forged a lifelong family. 

Dad was a lifelong card-carrying Teamster truck driver. Mom belonged to the CWA. They provided a good life for us. We owned our home, took family vacations, and had a wooden boat in the garage. They retired relatively comfortably on union pensions and with good health care.

As your next Lt. Governor, I will fight for opportunities like those provided to my mother, for all Washingtonians. 

So you can understand why I will be thinking about Mom on Mother’s Day just as I know you are thinking about your mom.

Reflect. Give thanks. Pay it forward.

And happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.

Will you chip in to our campaign today?

Learn more by visiting DennyHeck.com


Thank you!


 

 


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PO Box 235
Olympia WA 98507 United States

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