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Dear John,
Let me be clear, the Board of Elections ruling was an attack on our democracy and on working people in DC. Unelected bureaucrats --prompted by a frivolous challenge from a corporate lawyer, who is funding his campaign with the millions he made defending powerful interests like Facebook and Amazon-- telling a lifelong District resident who has spent his career fighting for working families that he’s "not qualified" is exactly what it looks like.
When you come from communities like mine and spend your career taking on the powerful, you get used to people trying to hold you back. But that just made me fight harder for communities like the one I grew up in.
We’re taking this ruling to the courts where we expect to win on appeal. Several of the original authors of the statute discredited this challenge as being well outside the intent of the language they helped write.
I’ll be out on the campaign trail continuing to talk to you, the voters, about how I’m going to fight for justice, equity, and opportunity for all of DC.
Onward and upward,
Kenyan
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