The Ironworker Challenging Paul Ryan Sees Path To Victory Through Working People

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Randy Bryce tells the House speaker: “Let’s trade places.”

Ironworker Randy Bryce recently got to talking politics with a man he met at his job site.

They were working together on building a two-story parking lot for a Veterans Affairs hospital in Milwaukee, and it sounded like the guy had voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

Bryce, then-politics coordinator for his union, Iron Workers Local 8, is a committed progressive Democrat. And the man with whom he was conversing surprised him.

Rather than express enthusiasm for Trump, the fellow threw up his hands in frustration, wondering why there weren’t more ordinary workers in politics.

“He was like, ‘You know what? I’m sick of voting for all these people. Why don’t we have one of us? You know, one of us should run,’” Bryce told HuffPost at a Washington fundraiser in July, a Wisconsin accent audible in his vowels.

Bryce, a 52-year-old Army veteran, had good news. “I just started laughing. I said, ‘Where do you live?’” When he heard the answer, he said, “I’ll have one of my signs up in your front yard.”

It was May then. A month later, Bryce announced his 2018 candidacy for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District ― a seat in the state’s southeastern corner that House Speaker Paul Ryan, 47, first won in 1998.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/randy-bryce-paul-ryan-working-people_us_59863b7ce4b08b75dcc76677?section=us_politics

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1. Randy Bryce is what is sorely lacking on the Washington political scene

"One of us" and down to earth.

[Not Ruth]

2. Hopefully the party puts some money behind him

Ryan has a head start, but he may be indicted soon. Louise Mensch has mentioned tapes of Ryan doing all kinds of illegal things. Could be perfect timing.