 As we move into the next phase of this race, my team and I have made an important decision.
If you need more convincing, allow me to pull back the curtain on this campaign and explain why I’m running for reelection — and why your grassroots support is crucial in ensuring our victory here in OR-06. Change can happen in a generation. I know because it happened to me. When my dad was five years old, he immigrated from Mexico to Texas. He picked cotton and tomatoes in the fields of the Rio Grande Valley, all the while dreaming that one day he would work his way out of poverty and make it to the middle class. My parents taught me the value of hard work. And I grew up believing that if we worked hard, anything was possible. But when I got to college, I realized my parents didn’t have the money to pay for my tuition and their groceries. So I worked all kinds of odd jobs to put myself through school. It took seven years, but I finished my degree and became the first person in my family to graduate from college. When my daughter was born, I felt in my core the same determination that drove my parents: there was nothing that would keep me from doing everything in my power to shape a stronger, more equitable future for Amelia and her generation.
Thank you, Andrea |
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