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| Name | John Broadhurst |
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Fairview Township, Pennsylvania , United States |
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
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| Info | John Francis Broadhurst
I am a fourth generation American of Irish descent. My family has its roots in the coal mining region of northeast Pennsylvania.
My grandfather was a coal miner from Scranton with a fourth-grade education whose family survived the Great Depression thanks to a strong work ethic, sacrifice and, like millions of American families, the public support programs of the New Deal.
My father was a truck salesman and among the first in the Broadhurst family to get a college education.
Working-class kids could afford college in the early post-war era. America’s commitment to higher education was then the envy of the world.
My parents, Bill and Selma Jean, raised eleven children and left a legacy of love and generosity.
During my college years at Villanova University, I worked for my father as a truck driver, crisscrossing all of south central Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. This is how I discovered what today is the Pennsylvania 10th district….as a truck driver.
Today, my siblings are teachers, retail workers, union members, caregivers, consultants, business
executives, Democrats, and Republicans.
But this is not a ‘bootstraps’ story.
It’s a story of family, of faith – a story of community.
After college, I worked for most of the mid-90s and 2000s in China and Europe as an entrepreneur and business consultant in the media and marketing sectors. My clients included American and European companies seeking to develop international markets.
By my 30s, I was financially independent and had richer business and cultural experiences than I could have imagined growing up. I met and married a wonderful woman, my wife Nathalie, and had three children – Ben, Paul and Juliette. Life was good.
In the winter of 2019, our family was devastated by the death of our son, Benjamin.
Such events change personal trajectories in ways large and small.
There is a before and an after.
This campaign is not a reaction to any one event. It is instead the result of decades of study of American history and a frustration with a political establishment which has overlooked working families, the middle class, and the most vulnerable members of our society.
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