Barb Davis White to Challenge Keith Ellison for the Minnesota 5th Congressional District!
It’s almost like a dream. You wake up one morning and decide you’ve had enough. You think, “What can I do to assist the community I love so dearly?”
- Barb Davis White on “Why Congress?”
Barb Davis White is running for Congress in Minnesota’s 5th District against Keith Ellison. In July, four months prior to elections, the significance of selecting the next congressperson may not be a priority, but it should be.
In 2006, Martin Sabo (DFL) retired after 26 years in the House. Keith Ellison, also a DFLer, replaced him. Although Ellison was endorsed by the DFL convention, three non-endorsed candidates ran strong campaigns against him in the DFL primary: Mike Erlandson, Ember Reichgott Junge and Paul Ostrow. Ellison won the primary with 41% of the vote. In the general election, he won with 56% of the vote against Jay Pond of the Green Party, Tammy Lee of the Independence Party and Alan Fine of the Republican Party. Ellison is the first Muslim member of the U.S. Congress, representing the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota.
Let’s look deeper into the cities included in the 5th Congressional District, says Davis White.
The families of the 5th congressional district have been the hardest hit by the mortgage foreclosure crisis in our state. Although, ACORN has partnered with the Minneapolis Urban League, (Congressman Ellison’s office is in the Minneapolis Urban League and his campaign headquarters are above the Denny’s on Lake Street near the Light Rail corridor), the crisis grows. If you follow the money trail, you’ll see that the funding or “grants” that should go directly to homeowners, with qualifications of course, is going to “experts” to consult hard working families losing their dreams and hopes for a future. These experts are, in some instances, former mortgage bankers, lending and credit approval personnel and others who have played both sides of the feast and famine of the real estate game.
The families of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District are in need of some proactive, aggressive change to turn the tables on poverty, homelessness and hopelessness. For example, our veterans from past and present wars are still suffering. On any given night in Minnesota, there are more than 3,000 homeless veterans. The men and women who served the United States and Minnesota in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines deserve better.
Introducing Barb Davis White
Barb Davis White is the widow of Pastor Kenneth White, and former daughter-in-law to Harry Davis, a Minneapolis civil rights leader, head of Minneapolis School Board and first black candidate for mayor in late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Davis White is determined to make a change in the 5th congressional district. She is
Davis White attended the University of Minnesota for Mortuary Science and Bethel Theological Seminary, where she earned an M.A. in Theology. She attended Logos Bible College, in , and became a licensed, ordained pastor. Her work in the prison community exceeds the expectations and call of duty in the community.
Barb Davis White: A Common Sense Approach to Government
According to the non-partisan Citizens Against Government Waste, Congress rammed 11,160 earmarks totaling $17.2 billion into spending bills during the 2008 fiscal year.
“This year, Congress approved a federal budget with a $685 billion deficit and last year approved a budget with a $450 billion deficit,” said Davis White. “We spend on programs we don’t need, and spend inefficiently on those we do need. My opponent, Congressman Keith Ellison, proposes expanding government on your dime. He advocates a new federal department of peace. Government programs that bloat the system forcing taxpayers work ever longer and harder.”
Recent information from the Heritage Foundation claims that of the $25,117 the US Government redistributes, on average per household, $455 goes to mass transit/highways. “This is grossly inefficient. The dollars flow to Washington, flow back to the states minus administrative costs and with loads of strings attached. Local control and local decision making are side-stepped,” explains Davis White, noting that a common sense approach is to have the state to collect the taxes and determine whether the money should be spend on buses, roads or railways.
Davis White comments that this Congress has witnessed unprecedented hikes in fuel and food prices, and has refused to take action on Social Security. Also this Congress has constructed an incoherent energy policy. Yet Democratic Congressional aspirants threaten to reward this governmental dysfunction by hiking taxes. “We need a different approach: A common sense approach.”
In 2001 and 2003, Congress signed tax cuts which lowered income tax rates, stimulated the economy, aided job creation and increased personal and business investments. These are set to expire if Congress allows. The Death Tax rate, capital gains rate, rate on dividends — all expire. It is unlikely that a congress led by the opposition will approve $1000 tax credit per child, marriage penalty relief, or the tax rate cuts. As a result, Americans will face alarmingly higher taxes at a time when we are also facing high fuel
Barb Davis White is ready to move in the direction of change for your families, wives, husbands, children and grandparents of the 5th congressional district of Minnesota. Her passion, enthusiasm and commitment about changing the course of the current funding streams to help create education, employment, wealth and independence for all people is one that is not new, but sidetracked by the current Democratic machine in the 5th district.
You can contact Barb at www.barbdaviswhiteforcongress.org or call (612) 558-8278.
