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Building Bridges Instead of Driving Wedges

Politics

In the coming months, one will see the radical views of our current local legislators revealed.

Among the most egregious of these views are the elimination of the minimum wage to boost corporate profits, gouging of us at the gas pump so big oil can make another trillion dollars, and the reduction of tax credits for working families in Woodbury while giving billionaires tax breaks.

These and many other smaller but still significant changes brought about by the current local legislators’ hurt Minnesota, Woodbury, and our nation. 

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The fact of the matter is these groups are holding back hard working people in the community from prospering, because of their self-serving policies.

There are a number of opportunists out there who state they represent the best interests of the people of our community, yet they come and go from Woodbury and America frequently when it is not convenient to stand with the folks in Woodbury or our nation.

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Other opportunists like to use tragic events for their own political gain, which is deeply unethical. Still others find it perfectly reasonable to “take hostage” any positive agenda that would help working families in order for billionaires, big oil, and big business that ship our jobs overseas to prosper.

People are tired of the phony arguments. Quit holding people back from being successful by gouging them every chance these people and groups get.

These folks I am referring to know who they are. They are the ones that question hard working, stoic, American’s because of their own uncertainty of their American values and morals that bind us all together.

Rather than building bridges in the community, they would rather drive wedges.

Remember that in the upcoming election year when you hear from your local legislators asking for your vote.

The good folks of Woodbury and Minnesota should reject these folk’s radical agenda and take on an attitude of building bridges, instead of driving wedges in the community that our current cabal of local legislators have embraced to divide us.

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