Kunce sets to ‘fundamentally change who has power in our country’

Missouri Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce made a stop in Joplin Sunday evening to speak with area voters about why he’s running for office.

The 13-year Marine vet says there are three major pillars that he sets to accomplish while representing Missouri:

• End Monopoly Domination of Our Economy

• Abolishing Corporate PACs And Safeguarding Democracy

• Enacting A Marshall Plan for the Midwest

“We’ve seen how things go when corporate elites, criminal politicians, and billionaires call the shots. It’s about time we put working people in charge of our country,” said Kunce. “That’s the mission of our movement — we’re taking this U.S. Senate seat back for the working people of Missouri.”

Kunce says he also supports abortion rights, straightening our democracy, curbing gun violence, taming inflation, preventing “criminal” politicians from owning stocks, stopping multinational corporations that are destroying our farmland and fighting back against Republicans instead of staying silent.

On the abortion issue, Kunce say the recent Supreme Court decision will only hurt the poorest of those in America. “Who is smiling and high-fiving each other on this Dobbs decision? It’s the same country club Republicans that know it’s not going to effect them, because they’re going to send their wives, they’re gonna send their daughters, they’re gonna send their mistresses out-of-state to get an abortion just like they’ve always done.”

“I’ve seen what it’s like to live in a big brother government where people who have money, access and power have a different set of rights than everybody else,” continued Kunce. “I saw it in Iraq and Afghanistan–they told me I was fighting for freedom over there and now we turn around and our freedom is under attack right here at home.”

Kunce says if elected, he will help end the filibuster and codify Roe v. Wade

I've got a message for America's men about abortion. pic.twitter.com/bJItUvSx2x

— Lucas Kunce (@LucasKunceMO) July 7, 2022

Kunce says he does not take any money from corporate PACs, federal lobbyists, big oil executives or big pharmaceutical executives, yet has still raised well over $3.5 million.

Kunce also says he will fight to legalize cannabis in the United States, reassess marijuana convictions, and invest public resources in the treatment and resources we need to end the Opioid Epidemic.

Kunce’s top challenger in the August primary is Trudy Busch-Valentine.

Calling him a criminal, Kunce believes he can defeat former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens in November.

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