LETTERS

Promising to work for the 99%

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To the Editor:

I’m Rhue Reis and I am running for U.S. Congress for Rhode Island’s 2nd District. I’m the son of Portuguese immigrants. My wife and I have been married for 32 years, we have two daughters and one grandchild. I was a small business owner, and am now a union worker at Foxwoods. For most of the past 14 years, I have worked two full time jobs to support my family. Few if any in Congress and definitely not my opponent personally, can say he knows what it is like to be in our shoes.

For the last 16 years my opponent has done little. We thought he had not passed a single bill, yet we were corrected by his campaign indicating that he recently passed a bill renaming a post office. In a recent article "In A Do-Nothing Congress, these members did the least.” My opponent was on the list of 35 members who did the least out of 535 Senate and House Republicans and Democrats. 

It is clear that hard working everyday Americans, no longer have representation in Congress. Clearly, I am the only candidate in this race who is of the people and for the people. I am not the professional politician who sits comfortably in the top 1% of Americans. I am a hard working Rhode Island taxpayer, who is deeply rooted in the 99% of Americans, who just like you is struggling to get by and is constantly disappointed by our government’s failures. 

We in Rhode Island have been lacking sound representation and leadership. This is why I am running, and why I am the most qualified to represent Rhode Islanders in Congress.

As your Congressperson, I will fight to get term limits and will work to reduce the deficit by bringing back good paying jobs and common sense spending practices. I will push for campaign finance reform as the outrageous spending for campaigns keeps politicians fundraising as opposed to doing their job for the people. I will encourage more loans for minorities and women to promote new jobs through small business development.

No matter who becomes President, there will have to be changes to healthcare. I will support all the citizens, not the profits of the insurance companies. Our national security has become abysmal. The protection of our citizens comes first and foremost over helping illegal immigrants, refugees, and other nations. We work for you not for them!  I plan on making myself available to my constituents by visiting towns in District 2 on a weekly basis.

Lastly, I’ve been told that my opponent gets a lot of sympathy votes. Sympathy for what, being in the top 1%, for having better insurance and a better retirement plan than the rest of us, or the fact that he represents the lobbyists of big companies and special interest groups as indicated by his campaign contributions. I ask, does he deserve our sympathy, when while serving for sixteen years in congress he has done nothing to close the gap between the Rich and the Poor here in Rhode Island, where the gap is one of the largest and continues to grow?

Rhue Reis

Candidate for Congress

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