To the Voters in Ohio’s expanded Third Congressional District

To be sure, many Americans, within the Miami Valley and beyond, have experienced irrefutable financial harm to their household incomes, family farms, small businesses and individual securities in a manner unparalleled in modern history. Let’s examine what has been occurring. The number of Americans without health care coverage is reaching epidemic proportions, far fewer new hires entering the labor force today can reasonably expect to realize an extended career with a single business, and our tax burden has spiraled completely out of control in the face of a national crisis of falling household incomes with no corresponding real tax relief in sight. Did I fail to mention that during this new millennium the majority Congress has had an obsession with tax cuts, but the targeted demographic receiving the most relief has not needed the help because they are the economically advantaged top one percent. Conversely the resilient middle class and struggling Americans have realized only very minimal benefits to their family budgets as a result of these so-called job saving tax cuts.

During this primary and general election contest, you can expect the incumbent to parse words and try to run away from his record. I will allow no such passing of the buck since his voting patterns have only resulted in disappointing outcomes. The time for meaningful change is now. When a team has had numerous opportunities to succeed and comes up short each time, we need to bring in a visionary with some elective experience to assist in changing the dynamics. Ohio’s majority Congressional Delegation has languished and constantly under served its constituents. Who would have dreamed the Bengals would have been in the play-offs four years ago? With the addition of practitioner Marvin Lewis and his new charisma and credibility, the Southwest Ohio team became a contender in the 2006 playoffs. Unlike other primary contenders, I have actually been elected to office and have initiated improvements in infrastructure at the local level. When elected to congress I will serve you with honest heartfelt concern and seek advantages and benefits needed by citizens of the Third District.

I am a senior ordained evangelical Baptist Deacon. I was inaugurated in marriage to my wife Carolyn, in 1972. In September of 1967 I was honorably discharged from the United States Army, went to school on the G.I. Bill and hold a baccalaureate degree from Wilmington College in Industrial and Labor Relations. I am a retired autoworker of thirty years service from Delphi and local 755 of the AFL-CIO-CWA. Do I know the value of a good job with superior benefits? ... Without question. I will fight for the good jobs with which I am familiar. These good jobs resulted in the Sanders family, along with thousands of others, advancing to the middle class. Throughout the nineties, these good jobs actually generated the largest economic advance in our nation’s history and shaped every municipality, township, and county in the Third District. These jobs also contributed to the advancement of agricultural activities in our region, and finally created the most unique technological corridor associated with Wright Patterson Air Force Base and other related businesses by developing a world class labor force with tremendous technical skills throughout this District.

While the realities of lost jobs in the recent past are not to be trivialized, we cannot afford to be cynical. Struggling Americans, business owners, professional people, and progressive people whose advance to the upper echelons of the income scale have been frustrated over the past six years, must now unify and register their dissatisfaction. Finally, citizen coalitions across this District must seize this opportunity to revise Ohio’s Congressional Delegation by voting for a new U.S. Representative whose sensibilities and passions are unquestioned. Do your part; vote for Charles W. Sanders for fiscal responsibility, honesty, improved education, new growth and economic development, good jobs, national security, a strong well equipped military and an accelerated commitment to push for new roads and bypasses through out District Three. Elect Charles W. Sanders to get the job done.