Jerrad Shane Christian

“The prospects of turning Ohio back to blue are pretty good, in my opinion. I try to exist outside the echo chamber that makes me feel undeservedly good, which is really important to me.”

“I got tired of waking up feeling the same way every day. You know, even after becoming a software engineer, I was still looking at the world, reading the news and getting angry and, you know, caring about my son's future. Now I'm responsible for this whole other human life. Yeah. And I didn't like the way things were going. And I woke up every single day and I read the news and I got angry. And instead of getting angry one day, I said, I'm going to run for Congress. And I did. I've never been politically involved. I've never run for an office before.”

“I'm running for office because I refuse to hand my son a country hollowed out by corruption, cruelty, and short-term thinking. I believe in clean water, honest government, working families, being a good human, and telling the truth even when it's uncomfortable. I don't worship politicians. I don't punch down. And I don't back away from a fight when the stakes are this high.”

“I grew up in rural Ohio in a working-poor family where government programs and community weren't abstract policy debates; they were the difference between eating and not. I couch-surfed as a kid, watched my mom fight cancer with Medicare keeping her alive, and have seen Social Security barely stretch far enough for the people in my life.”

“Work doesn't pay what it used to. Health care costs more and delivers less. Rent is going up endlessly, and families are stretched too thin.”

“I'm a Navy veteran, software engineer, and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Ohio's 12th district. I'm running a grassroots campaign to unseat Rep. Troy Balderson, a Republican who consistently votes in support of lobbying groups, super PACs, and his billionaire donors. It's time to give power back to Ohio's working class.”