John,

As a doctor, you can’t BS your way out of a problem — you just have to solve it. But the truth is, so many of the struggles impacting the Pennsylvanians I cared for couldn’t be solved inside the examination room.

When a pregnant mother of a three-year-old couldn’t manage her diabetes, no nutrition advice in the world could change the fact that she was forced to choose between getting processed food from the corner convenience store or taking two buses with her young child to get to the nearest grocery store.

And when a 19-year-old woman with a heart condition went into pre-term labor at seven months, nothing I did could change the fact that her pre-existing condition blocked her from getting health insurance before we passed the Affordable Care Act.

My ability to help people as a doctor was important — but it wasn’t enough.

So, I became a public health advocate fighting for the passage of the Affordable Care Act to secure coverage for 23 million Americans. Then, I became Chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, where I’m working every day to make life easier for workers and families, and grow our economy. And now, I’m running to be the next U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania because there is so much more work to be done.

Quality health care is still too difficult and expensive to access, hard-working people still have too hard of a time making ends meet, and our climate is in crisis.

If Republicans keep this seat and take back the Senate, it would spell disaster for our country — undoing the progress we’ve made under President Biden and Vice President Harris. Trump Republicans have made it clear that they are willing to abandon our democracy, take away a woman’s right to make choices about her body, and put the interests of corporations over workers and families. And they have already raised over $23 million this year to end our Democratic majority.

I’m humbly asking for your help to meet our campaign’s $100,000 end-of-month goal so we have the resources to win this toss-up seat, protect the Democratic majority, and deliver lasting change for Pennsylvanians:

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Thank you for all you do.

With determination,

Val