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Hi, I’m Rob Jarvis, and I’m a Democrat candidate for Congress right here in the 15th district of Ohio. I’m a high school government teacher by trade, and I’ve got three children of my own back home. You know, you can’t spend as much time working with young people as I do, without thinking about the future. Our children’s future, our future, this country’s future . . . . and to be honest I’m concerned. I’m concerned because right now we have a government that seems determined to take more and more from each and every one of us, than what we ever bargained for when we voted in the last election. In the just the past year President Trump and his supporters in Washington have created, pushed, and signed legislation meant to take away your

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