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Letter to the editor: Chris Deluzio has walked the walk

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By Tribune-Review
2 Min Read Oct. 26, 2022 | 4 years ago
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One candidate for Congress in the 17th District has an agenda undergirded by a commitment to serve the common good: Chris Deluzio. Iraq War veteran, voting rights attorney, voting security expert and union organizer, Chris hasn’t just “talked the talk”; he has “walked the walk.”

Having served as a North Side neighborhood activist, a state representative and a judge, I have never met a more sincere candidate for office. I got to know Chris as a member of his team during the primary election.

I spent countless hours door-knocking and traveling from event to event with Chris. In all of those hours, he never strayed from his deep belief that folks should have family-sustaining jobs with good health care, nice vacations and other benefits. He constantly stressed the need for a national industrial policy that focuses on manufacturing in America.

As the grandson of coal miners and the son of factory workers, I benefited from a union way of life. I know that Chris Deluzio’s actions will never belie his dedication to unions for working families. For Chris it is simple: to borrow a line from Bruce Springsteen, everyone deserves an America that is a “land of hope and dreams.”

Don Walko

Sewickley

The writer is a retired Common Pleas Court judge and former state representative.

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