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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Brent Welder |
Address | 1235 Zarda Lane Kansas City, Kansas , United States |
Email | info@brentwelder.com |
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Last Modifed | RBH May 28, 2018 01:04pm |
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Info | Brent understands the pain and fear that too many families face. He was raised a few hours from Kansas City in a small town in Iowa. When Brent was young, his parents worked hard to support their family. After the bills were paid, the family survived on hotdogs for nearly every meal because it was all they could afford. During Brent’s high school years his mother, a social worker, took heating assistance to get her and her five children through the cold Iowa winters. They only had three small bedrooms, so Brent made his out of a closet in their concrete basement. His family lacked money for much more than the basics, but his parents imparted their children with a sense of hard work and optimism that kept them happy and healthy. The most important rules in their household were to never lie, and to always help others.
Brent later worked his way through college, pouring concrete in scorching summer heat, and waiting tables on nights and weekends. Now a labor lawyer and national worker’s rights advocate, Brent keeps these memories close, and has spent his entire life fighting for working families in Kansas and across the country.
Brent held key positions with Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Patrick Murphy, the first Iraq Veteran elected to the U.S. Congress. As National Field Director for the Teamsters union, Brent organized over a million union members for better wages, benefits, and workplace safety. After law school, instead of joining a big corporate law firm, Brent continued with his passion—supporting workers’ rights as designated legal counsel for a national labor union. In these roles, Brent worked with local and national leaders to create better paying jobs, revitalize small businesses, and achieve better access to good healthcare.
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