Shelane and Adam

Hello, I hope that you are enjoying Memorial Day weekend with family and friends.  I’ll be not far from a grill myself. 
 
Forward announced a series of endorsements this past week for Congressional candidates!  John Avlon (NY-1) and John Curtis running for Mitt Romney’s Senate Seat in Utah may be familiar to you.  The other two candidates are Shelane Etchison in North Carolina and Adam Frisch in Colorado. 

 Shelane Etchison is running as an Independent for Congress in North Carolina’s 9th district.  Her bio reads like that of a movie heroine.  She served as a Special Operations soldier in the U.S. Army for 11 years, deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.  After her service, she attended Harvard and returned to North Carolina, where she had been stationed in the Army.  Shelane is running out of a deep sense of patriotism: “Our democracy is struggling and needs fresh voices in Congress unbridled by partisan politics.”  Shelane would be an independent voice in the House and her victory could make national news.    
 
Adam Frisch is running in Colorado’s 3rd district – you might remember Adam as the candidate who lost to Lauren Boebert by only about five hundred votes in ’22.  Adam’s strength this time daunted Boebert to the point where she switched districts.  Now he’s running again to provide a sane, principled voice in Congress unafraid of crossing party lines.  I’ve spent time with Adam – we supported him two years ago – and he’ll make a phenomenal member of Congress. 
 
People complain all of the time, “I wish better people ran for office.” These are exactly the kind of people that you want to run.  I hope that you will consider supporting Shelane, Adam, John and John.  Let your friends know about them.  Let’s help good people who want to reform the system win. 
 
My TED Talk is now over 1,000,000 views – thank you for sharing it!  I get messages about it every day.  Forward is revving up for the summer and hope that you are too.  Enjoy the weekend.