Jim Keady Candidate for Congress New Jersey’s Third District (Ocean & Burlington Counties) www.jimkeady.com
My name is Jim Keady and I am running for Congress to represent the people of New Jersey and to be a voice for everyone who is not a billionaire, a lobbyist, or a corporate CEO.
I am a middle class small business-owner who believes that it’s time the people had an advocate on Capitol Hill who understands what they are going through.
Most people around New Jersey know me as the guy Chris Christie screamed at to sit down and shut up when I was standing up for Hurricane Sandy families. I have made it clear to him and to everyone that I will never sit down and shut up. I will always stand up and speak out and fight for what is right for the people of New Jersey.
Along with being the sit down and shut up guy, I would like to believe I am known as a few other things. I am known as Daddy to my seven-year-old daughter. I am known as Jim to the customers and staff at my family’s tavern. To my former college and professional soccer teammates, I’m their keeper. To my former high school players, I’m Coach Keady. To my former high school students, I’m Mr. Keady. To my former constituents in the City of Asbury Park, I’m Councilman Keady. To others I’m the guy who fought against Nike’s sweatshops in the slums of Indonesia. To yet others, I’m the guy who went overseas to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis to give humanitarian aid.
I am all of these things above, but come November, the day after Election Day, with the help and support from progressives around New Jersey and around the nation, I hope to be known the next Congressman for New Jersey’s Third District.
Like so many Congressional districts around the nation, our district is made up of everyday people. We are fisherman and farmers, we are small business owners and union workers, we are teachers and cops, we are working families and single adults, we are high school and college students and retired seniors.
We need an advocate in Washington who understands what we are going through everyday – someone who is from the middle class, someone who is a small business owner. We need someone who understands the struggles we face at times.
We need someone who understands the need to pay the rent or the mortgage every month. We need someone who understands what’s it’s like to have to meet a payroll and take good care of one’s employees. We need someone who understands the struggle to pay off college debt or to have enough money to even go to college. We need someone who understands our worrying about if our pension or retirement fund is going to be there when we are ready to retire. We need someone who understands why we worry about having access to healthcare if we get sick or our children get sick. We need someone who understands what it means to have more month than money if we’re on a fixed income.
We need someone in Congress who understands all of this stuff, who lives it along with us, and who will fight for us.
We have enough multi-multi millionaires in Congress who are fighting for the super rich. We have enough people in Congress who are giving tax breaks to big banks and giant corporations. We have enough people in Congress who are pushing trade deals that offshore our jobs. We have enough people in Congress who are bought and sold by the big money and who have forgotten everyday people.
We need an advocate who will fight for what is best for us - what is best for Main Street not Wall Street. We need an advocate who will fight for what is best for our communities, not for multinational corporations. We need an advocate who will fight to get big money out of politics so that the voice of the people can be heard.
I want to be that advocate. I want to win this election and fight for all of us. But, I cannot do it alone.
The #KEADYFORCONGRESS campaign is not about me. It’s about us. It’s about us standing up and speaking out and fighting for what is best for our communities. It’s about us coming together, not for what is politically right or left, but for what’s politically right or wrong.
Why must we do this? Why here? Why now? Because together we can win this race. Because together we can stand up and speak out and get the government we deserve. Together we can bring a political revolution to Washington, DC.
And when this happens, and we do win, I will proudly serve the people of New Jersey’s Third District in the United States House of Representatives.
If you’re ready to give to support this campaign of the people, please click www.jimkeady.com.