Thread by @JerradChristian

🧵I wrote most of this thread last week, but I couldn’t post it. It was too fresh in my mind. Honestly, I was too uncomfortable. I know this is vulnerable, but I need to share it. Here goes...

My employer gave me a choice: keep my income or keep running for Congress. What would you do?

I could provide for my family or my country. Not both. I chose to continue running for Congress and sacrifice my job.

The way I see it, keeping my job was the safest path forward. But the people of this district need me for a different job - as the U.S representative for OH-12.

Keep my job, or “interview” for a job where I can work to help every American family, give every parent better opportunities to provide for their kids, and fix a system where one bad day can take a child’s healthcare away… or leave a family like mine or yours homeless.

I work for a great company, and I don’t blame them. But I am a veteran. I served my country. I strapped on the boots and buttoned up the uniform day after day, for years.

I swore to protect our freedoms from threats both foreign and domestic, and I’M NOT DONE.

I didn’t make the safe choice, but I think I made the right one. It’s going to be a difficult one to live with for a while. Honestly, I’m nervous.

If there’s ever been a day to help me in this race, it’s today. Please let me know I made the right choice. secure.actblue.com/donate/j_twitt…

I grew up in poverty. I know what it’s like to be a kid and not understand why the adults are so stressed or why we’re losing the house or why we’re sleeping on the floor at Grandma's.

The thought of my son being without tightens my chest… I’m not just nervous. I’m terrified.

I am not independently wealthy. I never have been. To the world, that means my voice doesn't count.

Unless you're wealthy, it means your voice doesn't count either.

I’ve sacrificed a lot trying to change that this year, and I just gave up my job to keep trying.

You don’t come from where I have and decide to run for Congress, to leave your family for a job halfway across the country, for shits and giggles.

You do it because things aren’t okay, the kids aren’t alright, and no one is f***ing helping us. No one can with MAGA in Congress.

If you grow up like Troy Balderson, you run for Congress because you’re already rich, and money is all that matters. Really, why would anyone expect you to care about your family if you’re taking dark money to destroy their home?

My campaign is the only chance Ohio has to protect our families from a Republican that has pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars while voting to poison our kids, destroy our planet, and strip us of our freedoms for his personal gain.

Troy Balderson has to go.

I was sitting waiting for a haircut and wondering if I should save the $15 for groceries next month.

The intrusive thoughts were coming in. Am I selfish for getting a haircut right now? Does this make me a bad dad?

The good guys shouldn’t have to worry about a haircut

I'll always fight to provide for my wife and son. No child should experience the poverty I did as a kid.

I’m not quitting, ever. We are going to win this and get some actual progress back in our Congress.

Like and RT if you’re with me! secure.actblue.com/donate/j_twitt…