My 9th District neighbors…

“I’m a lifetime Southern Indiana Hoosier. I got involved in local politics back in the 90s, around when federal politicians began ignoring working people in favor of corporate interests and ultra-wealthy donors.

Southern Indiana, like much of the Midwest, was devastated by NAFTA, a trade deal put together by Democrats. NAFTA shipped good-paying union jobs, the backbone of a strong middle class, out of Indiana by the tens-of-thousands. Ninth District communities like mine were crippled by the thoughtless Wall-Street greed of our elected leaders. That’s when I decided to step up — and run for office.

I’m a Hoosier Progressive who for the last 20 years has represented the good people who call my part of Southern Indiana home. Folks here know me, and I know them. When I have conversations with people in this district, it’s not as a politician but as a friend and neighbor.

Hoosiers are sick and tired of our divisive and broken political system. They disdain moneyed interests lining the pockets of every politician with a re-election campaign. And they can’t stand the way those in corporate-backed media disregard ‘flyover country.’

These are incredibly tough times for those of us without an inflated stock portfolio or generational wealth to fall back on. We have never needed true Hoosier leadership as much as we do right now. Unfortunately, here in Indiana’s 9th District, we’ve never had less leadership than our current ‘representative,’ a man with no Hoosier roots and even less connection to the working-class folks who call Southern Indiana home.

Help me bring Hoosier representation back to Indiana’s 9th by sending Tennessee Trey home on November 3.”

- ANDY