From the Harris/Walz campaign:
Sometimes life is as much about the lessons you learn as the lessons you teach. When I grew up Community was a way of life. My high school class was twenty-four people. I was related to half of them. I learned to be generous towards my neighbors, compromised without compromising my values, and work for the common good.
My dad was in the Army and with his encouragement I joined the Army National Guard when I was seventeen. I served for twenty-four years. I used my GI benefits to go to college and become a public school teacher. I coached football and taught social studies for twenty years and I tried to teach my students what smalltown Nebraska taught me, respect, compromise, service to country.
And so, when I went into government that’s what I carried with me. I worked with Republicans to pass an infrastructure Bill, cut taxes for working families, signed paid leave into law. I codified abortion rights after Roe got overturned because I go to work for the common good.
But enough about me, let’s talk about you because that’s what the election is about. It’s about your future, it’s about your family. And vice president Harris knows that. She, too, grew up in a middle class family. She, too, goes to work every day making sure families cannot just get by, but get ahead. We believe in the promise of America, in those values I learned in Nebraska, and we’re ready to fight for them. Because as Kamala Harris says, when we fight, we win.
This is going to be fun.