2018 General Election In Dispute (Republican Fraud)
Third Captain
Several of the Democratic candidates are Iraq War veterans. Like Max Rose (Army) from the previous note and Chrissy Houlahan (Air Force) from the note before that, Dan McCready http://www.danmccready.com/ (Marines) retired from the military as a captain. His district, North Carolina’s ninth, runs along the center of the southern border of North Carolina and includes some of Charlotte and its suburbs
Dan McCready can win the seat. One of the DCCC’s Red to Blue candidates, he is the only Democrat to have raised significant money. He has raised more than the incumbent. He has raised more than the incumbent’s Republican challenger. The Republican challenger, Mark Harris is serious. He is a deeply conservative minister who lost the 2016 primary by less than one percent. He earned attention campaigning against gays and against abortion, enough attention so that he has a supporter with national credentials. Steve Bannon is making electing Mark Harris a project.
The incumbent was first elected in 2012 — defeating a Democrat by 6 points. He had no Democratic opponent in 2014, and won by seventeen points in 2016. It is not at all clear who the Republican nominee will be in 2018. Could either of them beat a Democrat who is really well suited for the District?
Dan McCready is a great fit for this business oriented district. He joined the marines after finishing at Duke. He had been freshman during 9/11 and had decided on military service. His core memories of the war include leading sixty-five marines into battle during the 2007 surge and being baptized in the Euphrates River. From the Marines, he entered Harvard Business School. He worked for a while as a consultant for McKinsey, then he and a fellow Marine started a business in Charlotte creating solar farms. Now they are owners of the second largest solar farm company in the country. Dan McCready was not satisfied with just one business. He started This Land, a business that sells hand made American goods online.
As a candidate, he outlines his values rather his proposals.
Keeping the American Promise: The American promise he remembers: If you work hard and play by the rules, you can build a better life for your family and a better future for your kids. He thinks technical and trades education for those who need skills for the workplace would be one piece of an effort to help those for whom this promise is out of reach.
Putting Country over Party: The values he sees Washington ignoring: Problem solving, compromise, working together He would want, for instance, politicians of both parties to work together to fix the broken health care system.
Fighting for American Values: The violations of those values that he would fight: Stand up for those whose right to vote is restricted, support women prevented from making their own health care decisions, oppose discrimination, bigotry, and racism. No small matter, he is also committee to providing a smart and effective national security system.
These are Democratic values. In 2016, Democrats made inroads in North Carolina with the election of a Democratic Governor and a Democratic Attorney General. There is no place in the country where Republicans have fought Democratic inroads harder or more unfairly than North Carolina. Help Dan McCready http://www.danmccready.com/get elected and extend the change in North Carolina’s politics. Provide him with some support — monthly donations would be great.
