Chris Haulmark explains his background on why he's a Democrat.

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[Video Description: Chris Haulmark is standing in the kitchen wearing black long-sleeved and button-up shirt.]

Hello everyone!

This is Chris Haulmark, running for US House of Representatives in Kansas’s Third Congressional District.

Today, I will answer the big question posed by viewers: “Why am I a Democrat?”

*composing*

As I reflect upon my history, back to a time of listening to my parents' unimaginable life stories about their previous lives before I was born.

Let’s start with my father’s part.

He constantly struggled throughout his childhood- yep!

Because his father passed when he was 14 years old.

He had to drop out of school to help his mother support the family.

Whew… what a tough challenge!

And he used to play on the baseball team, too, which he had to drop out of.

That explains why he made sure I was involved in baseball from age 5 all the way to finishing a bit early- before age 18.

Yeah, how amazing what he did for me. *smiling*

So he vicariously lived through my baseball life on what he’d missed out.

My mother, on the other hand, got married after she was old enough to move out, and lost her husband in a fatal accident due to his night blindness.

She then met my father, and they both struggled in crushing poverty.

My mother had no other choice, but to labor in inhumane conditions at the local Tyson Foods chicken processing plant, often rotating between different jobs, even simultaneously holding down two jobs.

My father, too, was in the same situation.

I have a partial memory of how my father injured his back in a forklifting accident.

He received some compensatory money and decided to invest it in his education at a community college.

Amazingly, he got straight A’s in all classes to become a valve technician for nuclear plants, repairing during outages.

After graduation, he traveled all across the East Coast and to Baytown, Texas- that much I recall.

*reflecting*

This history gives me a clear vision of how both parents worked hard to give me and my two brothers a bright future.

My mother fought incessantly against the school district MANY TIMES to make SURE I got the education I needed.

My two brothers didn’t have much trouble with the school providing them their education.

Yeah, think about that!

I’m really proud of both my parents and what they were able to accomplish, which leads to the next part of the story, which has affected me so much in becoming a Democrat at heart.

One day, my father went to get his heart checked out.

He had just barely enough health care coverage, given how little money he had.

*deep breath*

Somehow, it turned out that his heart was defective and broke down into a fatal heart attack.

My father did not expect to die so suddenly.

We didn’t expect him to die so suddenly, either.

After that turning point, I aspired to become educated, learning more about myself, growing and knowing how to work on improving our collective lives.

Especially in the Deaf community, too.

Seven years later, I decided to run for Congress in Kansas’s Third Congressional District here as a Democrat,
because the mission of government is to ensure that all its people have fair and equitable opportunities in life.

Hence the goal of this “Land of Opportunity”

Yessir!

So I’m proud to be a Democrat!

Haulmark for Congress!

[Video fades into a black background with a logo of a cartoonish Chris Haulmark signing “Believe” with white text of “Yes, We Can Believe” below the logo. There is the text of www.HaulmarkForCongress.com at the bottom]

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   CoolPJR Reply

   7 years ago

   ReplyTo:   ChrisHaulmark
   Title:   A touching story