Keith Mundy

Keith Mundy was born in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from Hudson High School in 1968 and attended the University of Akron from 1968 until 1975. His career experience includes owning a legal documents research and delivery business and working as a legal researcher, labor law investigator, and server of legal papers.[1][2]

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm running on one issue … TO STOP FASCISM!

Trump, who blatantly wrote on Truth Social that he wants to “terminate the Constitution” and openly promised to become a dictator on “Day One,” is completely on board with this plan. That’s just the beginning of the agenda, and it has a name: Project 2025.

HTTP://MUNDY4.US

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Saving our Democratic Republic.

Throwing out of congress the insurrectionists.

Free higher education for ALL!

Protect Women's Rights.

Healthcare4All

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Bernie Sanders ... I like his authenticity. Bernie's authenticity comes from saying what he believes and speaking truths. He's not afraid to call himself a democratic socialist.

Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed for Social Security, Republicans have used the word 'socialism' to scare Americans. Remember that capitalism keeps many of us 'just the working poor'.

I like Bernie because he has endless patience for important things and no patience for Bullshit!

I backed Bernie in 2016 (I ran for congress) when he ran for the Democratic nomination for president helping to open many offices here in Ohio and going to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as a member of our Bernie delegation. I took a lot of crap for doing this from Clinton people, but I'm glad I did it.

I like Bernie because he has more guts than any politician I have met.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I have always been a leader. Problem solving, Communication skills, Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Confidence, and Active listener. You have to be able to be open to all people I plan on focusing on constituency services.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Members of Congress represent the people of their district in the United States Congress by holding hearings, as well as developing and voting on legislation. All bills must pass Congress before they can go to the President to be signed into law.

Roles include representation, legislation, constituency service, oversight and investigation, and advice, personal office management, and electoral activity.

What legacy would you like to leave?

Leave something good for my grandchildren.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

1963 the deaths of Pope John XXIII, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the death of my mother. I was 13 ...

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Delivered newspapers for 3 years when I was 10 years old.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Fahrenheit 451

Novel by Ray Bradbury

Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was banned several times in an effort to censor the graphic content of the story. Even though the story is about censorship, the novel has also been subject to censorship and banning. I guess to say that I'm against book censorship says it all ... I'm not a BOOK BURNER like so many Republicans.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Jean-Luc Picard ... Captain of the Star Ship Enterprise.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Working Class Hero ... John Lennon

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

These principles ring out clearly in our Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The founders, acting as representatives of the people, constructed a framework of governing institutions atop these principles and authorized them to exercise the legislative, executive, and judicial powers necessary to govern the country. In doing so, they granted America's political institutions the ability to act based on the consent of the American people.

The Constitution assigns all federal legislative powers to Congress for a reason: It is where the people's most direct representatives govern. If a member of Congress votes to enact laws of which the member's constituents do not approve, the people can replace the member in the next congressional election.

If we want to return to a government by the people, we need those we elect to Congress to commit to keeping executive agencies on a short leash.

Policy and process are important. And they are deeply intertwined: Policy takes shape within a process, and if the process is a closed one, very few members will see themselves as lawmakers. This can't help but deform not only how they work as members of Congress, but also how they understand the purpose and role of the institution itself.

Increasing the number of members in the House would dilute the influence of special interests on legislation. The more members there are in the House, the more difficult it is for lobbyists to capture a majority of members on any given bill. This would help liberate legislation from the grip of special interests and steer it more forcefully toward the public interest.

The House should have around 600 members.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

No! But just how broken is Congress? The institution had been broken for some time, and it remains broken to this day. We need to clean the House.

The defects can be separated into three categories: substantive, procedural, and structural. The substantive problems relate to the atrophying of Congress's legislative power. The procedural problems relate to how the House is run, specifically with respect to how legislation is crafted and how the House calendar deforms the institution's work. The structural problems concern the size of the House.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Women's rights (We now have legal abortion in Ohio).

Gun violence is a top concern.

The affordability of health care and drugs.

Drug Addiction.

Climate change is a very big problem for our country and the world.

Inflation remains a minor concern.

Immigration policy is a very big problem (Remember that Republicans in 2017 would not give Trump the money for his wall.)

Affordable housing.

Free higher education that is not controlled by fascists. (Republicans in Ohio control all Boards at state Universities)

1 SAVING OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC from FASCISM!

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

I will be able to tell you more after I serve my first term ...

What are your thoughts on term limits?

We need them ... “Term limits will ensure that an entire generation of Americans will not suffer a further loss of their freedoms under a reactionary and partisan Supreme Court, and that no future Senate Leader can stack and steal the Court the way Mitch 'the bitch' McConnell did.”

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

John Frederick Seiberling, Jr. (September 8, 1918 – August 2, 2008) was a United States representative from Ohio. In 1974, he helped to establish what later became the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and served on the House Judiciary Committee that held the impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Seiberling

Tell us your favorite joke.

I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know how that works out ...

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Yes! But it will be next to impossible with the 'Freedom Caucus' that is an oxymoron. They want a dictatorship not freedom!

We live in a time when elected officials have become less willing to seek common ground. Some resist the very idea of government and scoff at the principle of compromise. But government is necessary because people need it to resolve their conflicts, and compromise is the tool by which governing officials hammer out such conflict resolution. If we all agreed with each other, we would not need government.

Compromise has been and will remain vital to sustaining our 240-year-long experiment with self-government. It is a process of give and take, of blending and adjusting. It is not consensus, for rarely is consensus possible, and to make consensus the standard makes self-government untenable.

“Mutual respect is necessary for a democracy to function, and denigrating another’s patriotism, misrepresenting an opponent’s positions, and refusing to cooperate even on matters on which there is agreement undermine the relationships needed to resolve differences.”

The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?

As housing in the US has become increasingly unaffordable over the past few years, the number of people experiencing homelessness surged to its highest level on record this year. We need to look at this.

Known as a “point-in-time” estimate, the annual snapshot looks at the number of individuals nationwide who are living in shelters, temporary housing and unsheltered settings on one night last January. The report found that more than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness that night, the most since reporting began in 2007.

Homelessness is solvable and should not exist in the United States.