Jack Pichotta

This is so difficult to write. You appear to be 100% complicit with what is clearly an attempt to overthrow both the Constitution and the continuation of Democracy in our country.  My wife and I are soon closer to 90 than 80.  As a teacher in Cloquet, I coordinated one of the very first Earth Day programs in 1970.  I am a disabled vet, and, while in my 20’s, was a proud member of Steel Workers Union 1028.  I am considered the founder of Wolf Ridge Environmental learning Center. 

Both John Blatnik and Jim Oberstar were supportive of the grass roots efforts that enabled Wolf Ridge to recently pass 50 years of success, to serve many more than 500,000 Minnesota students, and to be currently providing national leadership to provide outdoor education for all students – not just in Minnesota but in the nation.

I might also add that the $280,000 3-year demonstration grant that got the center started in 1971 came from the 1966 Elementary and Secondary Education Act provided by the Department of Education that Trump, and apparently you, are determined to dismantle.

Now the difficult part.  I fear that nothing I can say will result in your representing me, my family, and apparently a majority of the voters, and nonvoters, in the 8th district.  Please.  Represent us.