ASBL 56 Joshua McKee, House Candidate, Alabama District 1

Joshua McKee is running for Congress as a Republican in Alabama’s 1st District. A decorated U.S. Army Green Beret, Joshua spent 25 years serving our nation around the world and led Special Forces teams through combat and crisis. His website, www.McKeeForCongress.com, says, “In civilian life, Joshua served as a Global Strategist for General Motors, a solutions architect for Hewlett-Packard, and an entrepreneur who built businesses and signed both sides of a paycheck. He’s running to reform broken systems like the VA and restore the American Dream for Alabama families.”

Highlights of our conversation:

Joshus decided to run after seeing the amount of taxpayer dollars lost to fraud and the lack of accountability exposed by the DOGE investigations. A small business owner, he knows that “Regulations are really built for large corporations that have teams of lawyers and lobbyists, not for the family business, the small businesses that have less than 100 employees.”

“In my normal messaging, there are two things that are important: the Veterans Administration and small businesses. Then [third], the education of our American youth. Those are the top three that I talk about in my [campaign] messaging.”

Josh took a medical retirement from the military after a brain tumor was discovered, believed to be caused by a traumatic brain injury. After surgery, the VA had no doctor for him.

“I ended up having 8 strokes in 9 months and lost my ability to speak and I was walking with a cane. It was January a year ago when I got my speech back. It was a struggle, to see how the VA had forgotten about me. They didn’t have the resources to treat every vet that comes through those doors.”

“My voice came back, and an MRI came back clean. There was medical explanation of how there was nothing there or what happened or how I healed.”

“I know by the grace of God is how I healed. So, the VA for me is at the top of the list, so our veterans, our heroes, get access to the care they need. Alabama is ranked 49th for mental healthcare access. So, unfortunately, when you hear of a veteran committing suicide, look at Alabama because it’s probably where it happened. We just had one happen at the beginning of the New Year. We’ve got focus on what’s going on in the VA. Somewhere, there’s a problem. We’ve got to get that resolved.”

We also discussed the goals of our www.DontCheatWomen.com project.

We want Congress to:

·        Raise from 5% to 15% the federal contract dollars that must go to women-owned small businesses.

·        Define a small business as 100 or less employees.

·        Make the Small Business Administration prove that small business contracts go to small businesses (and give the SBA a budget and staff as big as its mission, which is to help the 99.9% of all firms in America which are small businesses).

Because:

·        Women are half the population. They own 40% of all businesses. They sell what the government buys. (It’s not charily or DEI or affirmative action.)

·        But they get less than 5% of federal contract dollars. Companies owned by men get at least 95%.

Because they earn and save more than women, men dominate in politics. They donate more to campaigns and have more influence with the winners. It’s easier for men to run for office.

The American Small Business League (www.asbl.com) wants to stop big businesses from getting small business contracts. (Small businesses would create millions of jobs with those contracts and the economy would boom.)

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