The #PoorPeoplesCampaign principles state "the need to organize at the state and local level," so it's important that people vote at the local level; this year, the city of Gaithersburg has an election this coming Tuesday, November 4, for the Mayoral race and 2 City Council seats.
While the PPC is also non-partisan – and thus we cannot endorse specific candidates – our principles also state the following that remind us we should lift impacted leaders and support issues such as housing justice, food justice, and universal healthcare:
- We are committed to lifting up and deepening the leadership of those most affected by systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation and to building unity across lines of division.
- We believe that people should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist. Blaming the poor and claiming that the United States does not have an abundance of resources to overcome poverty are false narratives used to perpetuate economic exploitation, exclusion, and deep inequality.
- Whereas the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism blames poor and oppressed people for our poverty and oppression, our deepest religious and constitutional values insist that the primary moral issues of our day must be how our society treats the poor, those on the margins, women, LGBTQIA2S+ folks, workers, immigrants, the disabled and the sick; equal protection under the law; and the desire for peace, love and harmony within and among nations.
We ask that Gaithersburg residents review the candidates as published by Bethesda Magazine or progressive sources; and make your choice for whom to vote as you find most fitting to the principles listed above.
Forward Together! Not One Step Back!
Candidates are presented in the images in reverse-alphabetical order.
