Zach Dembo
By Zach Dembo
I wanted to be a federal prosecutor for the rest of my career, but when I couldn’t, I asked my grandma for advice. When I told her I was running for Congress, I thought she’d talk me off the ledge. But she didn’t. She looked me right in the eye and said, “kitchen table issues.” That was what she wanted me to focus on.
She grew up like my mom and the seven generations before her, working on a farm – the hard kind of work Washington doesn’t glorify. She knows what it means to worry about keeping the lights on, putting food on the table and affording gas at the pump, and she knows both sides of the aisle haven’t done enough for folks like her.
That’s why I’m running.
I come from nine generations of Kentuckians, taught eighth grade English in the Mississippi Delta, served as a lawyer in the Navy, and spent years in a federal courtroom prosecuting powerful people who thought the rules didn’t apply to them.
When I watched the Department of Justice get turned into the president’s personal law firm, I wasn’t going to betray the values I built my career on and abandon working folks just like my grandma.
When I decided what was next, I knew I couldn’t stay silent watching as a reckless trade war was devastating our farmers and distillers while establishment politicians did nothing.
We need bold change and a fresh perspective: a new voice who will put a check on this administration, fight corruption from both sides of the aisle, take on skyrocketing costs for working folks, and stop this senseless war in Iran.
That’s why I’m humbly asking for your support and vote on May 19 in the Democratic primary for U.S. Congress so we can clean up this mess together.