10/27/2026
One week until Election Day! 🗽
TLDR: vote for small businesses, end the decades long supermajority
You might not have a small business insider view of how current federal and local administrations are destroying local economies, so hear it from me :)
I'm in MO 4, both professionally and personally, by just 2 blocks and I'm voting for Jordan Herrera 🇺🇸
GOP incumbent Mark Alford sits on the Small Business Committee and Appropriations, but somehow never has answers to my questions on how he's supporting small business. When I call his office I get Sam, who is very nice, but as staff cannot answer simple questions. The canned response is "we'll get back to you" and yet, no one has gotten back to me in 2 years. Not about the illegal tariffs inflating nearly every ingredient I use (Mark didn't know corporations received tariff refunds?!). Not about health care (his office didn't care I was kicked off Medicaid this year as I make a whopping $64/mon "too much") Not about real assistance to small businesses (Mark's answer is always more loans! Loans for AI, loans for farmers, loans always paid to the govt)
Friends, small businesses are loaned out. We took the lifeline disaster loans from 2020-22. We're paying on them for the next 30 yrs. And when the SBA sets up minimum payment, they don't tell you that minimum is *just interest* and the loan sits in stasis while the govt rakes in the interest. As Mark tells small businesses to borrow their way out of an economic disaster the GOP created, he happily votes to give our tax money to other countries, the military, and billionaires, but never small businesses, the people they employ, or customers.
Every $1 you spend at my bakery, nearly 8% goes to state & local taxes to pay for stuff like: Mark's salary, Mark's healthcare, Mark's travel & meals. Mark doesn't employ 46% of the workforce like small businesses do, but he sure takes our money as he does nothing for our economy. He votes for corporations to not pay taxes while you & I cover the rest.
Mark is a news anchor from Texas without experience or education. Jordan is a veteran, an attorney, and committed to digging us out of this manmade disaster. VOTE!