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- Hey everybody, it's Derrick Van Orden.
I've had the distinct honor and pleasure
of representing you in Congress going on about two years now.
And I want to take a couple minutes
to tell you a little bit about myself,
because honestly, we are just not gonna
agree with each other all the time.
You are not gonna agree with every vote I take,
and I understand that.
And I think that's a good thing.
But you need to understand who I am as a person
because that informs my thought process,
and my thought process informs my voting.
So in a nutshell, here is who your congressman is.
I was raised in abject rural poverty by a single mother.
We were on food stamps when you actually had a stamp
that you licked and stuck to a card
at the grocery store.
I dropped out of high school when I was 16 years old.
I've been supporting myself since then.
I joined the Navy at the age of 18.
I wound up serving for 26 years,
retiring as a United States Navy SEAL Senior Chief.
I got a GED during that time.
And at the age of 44, I got a bachelor's degree.
I was accepted to law school at 50.
And after my 1L year of law school,
I decided to run for Congress full-time,
which kind of worked out
'cause now I write the laws, and that's really cool.
My wife, Sarah Jane, and I have been married for 31 years.
We have four children.
Three of them are still with us.
Unfortunately, we lost our oldest daughter,
Sydney Marie, last year to cancer.
But she left us with three fantastic grandchildren.
And with the other kids that we have,
they're all behind me here,
we have a total of 11 grandchildren.
This election's about three things:
gas, groceries, and grandkids.
People in Wisconsin are having difficulty
filling up a gas tank and a grocery cart on the same day,
and it just wasn't like that four years ago.
And we're deeply concerned
about the security of our children and our grandchildren,
and it just wasn't like that four years ago.
So with the first two, gas and groceries,
that's due to radical spending in Washington, D.C.
led by the Biden administration
that has caused a 20% across the board inflationary index.
And that's unsustainable.
I get around to the district every single day.
I talk to everybody from our farmers
to our factory workers, to our nurses,
to the folks that are working at Kwik Trip,
and they simply are not getting along.
And that's because of the radical,
out-of-control spending under the Biden administration.
And as far as security, a couple weeks ago,
a member of an international, transnational gang,
the Tren de Aragua, which is a Venezuelan gang,
committed some of the most brutal crimes
you can imagine against a mom and a daughter
less than a mile away from where I'm filming this video,
and less than a half a mile away
from where three of our grandchildren live.
And that's specifically due
to the Biden administration's open border
led by Kamala Harris.
So here's what I want for everybody.
I want prosperity, I want security,
and I want freedom.
And I've worked tirelessly to make sure
that this is happening,
and I've worked across the aisle.
If you look at the Lugar Center's bipartisan graph
that they've made for us,
a full 69% of all of the legislation I've done
over the last two years has been bipartisan.
69% of all of my legislation has been bipartisan,
and that is ranked by an independent group.
The next closest member
from the state of Wisconsin delegation
is 51% bipartisanship, and that's Glenn Grothman.
So if you want someone that's gonna work for you,
regardless of your political party,
regardless of your socioeconomic status,
regardless of your race,
regardless of what you do in your own time,
you're looking at the right person.
So I'm gonna ask you to vote Van Orden
coming up here on November 5.
And with that, God bless you and your family.