PA poll shows Arnold Spirit

Leading
for
Congress
nomination

Congressional candidate Arnold Spirit

Drew Bowman of the Pittsburg PostGazette
Arnold Spirit a Native American
citizen of Washington State is leading for
the congressional race.
Nearing the
election of 2020 according to the polling
from Mercyhurst Universitys Center for
Applied Politics.
Spirit is being praised for his
battles for equality and fair treatment in
Washington and the plan to bring this
system of fair treatment to the rest of the
nation. If Spirit is elected he will be the
first Native American Congressman in the
United States. Mr. Spirit mention in the
last political debate his plan to take action
for the Native American people and help
to break the cycle that the natives
experience in this country.
Spirit
conveyed I lived it. I know how it is on
the reservations and how poverty and
alcoholism are an ongoing cycle that is a
real struggle for Natives to get out of. I
was lucky enough to have someone guide
me in the right direction. Some challenge
Spirit on this idea of mistreatments by the
U.S.
government
implemented
onto

reservations, but the senator holds strong

to his guns and doesnt let the more
experienced candidates intimidate him.
He brings hard facts and personal
experiences to show the system that
negatively affects so many and prevents
change within the Native Americans and
other minority groups. Spirit brought up
the recent mass changes within the
African American communities in the U.S.
stating Many denied that the system was
flawed leading to a system of poverty and
drug abuse among the African Americans
in this country for decades and look at us
now.
We have made huge steps in
equality and fixing these cycles. The
people are looking for a voice and many
feel they have found one. A man that will
truly speak for the people and work to put
all in a position that creates true
opportunity.
I sat down with Mr. Spirit after the
debate last night and we talked about his
journey to where he is today. I asked him
to tell me what this has been like for him.
Senator Spirit replied I never could have
imagined this being my reality. I was a
poor Indian boy living on the Spokane
reservation with a loving mother and an
alcoholic father. Dont get me wrong I was
lucky, because my father may have been
an alcoholic, but he did love me.
I
wouldnt be here without my math teacher
Mr. P from high school. He instilled in me
that I could be something. I realized after
getting into a world off the reservation
how stuck the Natives on the reservation
really are. I think I always knew, but I was
enlightened when I had a world to
compare the reservation world to. When I
became senator I realized Natives are not
the only ones that are victims of the cycle
of poverty.
I decided to run for
congressman, because I want to help
break these cycles; However, I will work to
break the cycles for everyone. I will not
focus on all groups and forget Native
Americans as so many have. Talking with
Spirit was eye opening and empowering.
He is ready to take charge on this election
and do all he can to become a

congressman. The people seem to be

behind the movement and are excited for
the future.