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Vote Blue for You

If you are a union worker or wanting to start a union where you work, there will never be a better time to go for better pay and benefits. At this time we have a president and president-to-be walking picket lines supporting union workers—this has never happened in my eighty-three years. Shawn Fain, president of the UAW union, knows this and is making the most of it by winning and, let’s face it, all people like to be on a winning team. All unions should be stepping up for their members and those wanting to be union members. All union members must vote down the GOP and its Project 2025 and Agenda 47 plans, which will destroy our unions and the nonunion minimum wage even your dad and mom’s and even your Social Security will be gone. This is the time to put all differences aside and vote blue to keep our country as it is for all of us. There is always time down the road to make changes and build upon what we have as needed, but to do this we must keep our country of laws that support all and not just the super rich billionaires, who can and do buy whatever they want, such as the U.S. Supreme Court, elected officials, state governors, and even county officials, like Shasta County in northern California. We need to adopt the GOP’s strategy of playing the long game and winning. They started what they called The Transformations with the Reagan election and their intent was to reshape America and society and guess who lost out with this plan—the working people, which started the Haves and Have Nots. We can stop all of this in November by voting blue.

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