Dear Friend,
As someone who was born and raised right here in Orlando, I have lots of memories of the local newspaper. My parents couldn’t afford a subscription to the Orlando Sentinel, but I still remember reading the comic pages while waiting at the mechanic with my Dad or the doctor’s office with my Mom.
So it was incredibly humbling to learn last week that the newspaper of my childhood has endorsed our campaign for re-election.
You can read the entire endorsement here. But the part of I’m most proud of is the way it highlights our team’s work to help tens of thousands of everyday folks whose lives have been thrown into chaos by the coronavirus pandemic – from assisting workers trying to navigate Florida’s designed-to-fail unemployment system to advocating for emergency loans for our small businesses to using our own money to pay other people’s housing bills and ensure they aren’t forced into homelessness.
“We have a hard time coming up with a politician who rose to the occasion in better fashion than state Rep. Anna Eskamani,” the Sentinel wrote. “The pandemic was Eskamani’s defining moment because it shows she gets what’s important about being a politician, which is to first help the least among us and make the system work for everyone.”
Making sure our government helps all of us – rather than just the deep-pocketed people and corporations that buy their own access – is something that we fight for every single day.
And we’re going to keep the fight going after we’re re-elected in November.
Onward,
Anna