The people of Tennessee’s 4th District deserve someone who will go to work for them every day and represent their interests with integrity, which is why I endorse Mariah Phillips for Congress. Watching Mariah, a schoolteacher and mother of five, travel across the district for months, learning everything she can about what’s important to its citizens, has convinced me she has what it takes to reach across the aisle and actually get something done in Washington.
Mariah’s work ethic and character stand in stark contrast to Scott Desjarlais, who, on the taxpayer’s dime, has passed no significant legislation, has been mired in personal scandal, and whose voting record helped explode the federal deficit. Mariah won’t get sidetracked by the petty partisanship and rigid ideology than slow Washington down. Instead, she’ll stay laser-focused on solutions: for safer and better-funded public schools, for more affordable healthcare, for a living wage, and for fixing our broken immigration system in a way that preserves both human dignity and the law.
As a person of faith for whom the value of life and the protection of human rights is of utmost importance, I believe Mariah has the personal integrity it takes to address the most pressing moral issues of our time in a practical and consistent way. This woman is no hypocrite! She practices what she preaches. I’ll sleep better at night knowing Mariah Phillips is representing my family’s interests, and the interests of my friends and neighbors, in Congress.
– Rachel Held Evans
Bestselling author and member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships