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About
Dan ROBERTI Dan Roberti is a Connecticut Democrat who grew up the
son of a public school teacher and a state representative. Inspired by their
example, Dan decided early on to dedicate his life to public service. And he
has stayed true to that ideal. After working his way through college, Dan joined the
Jesuit Volunteer Corps where he spent a year of his life working in a
homeless shelter in Spokane, Washington. Dan ran the day-to-day operations of
the shelter’s social services program, mental health and doctor
clinics, as well as the emergency winter sleep program for 300 men and women. Dan then moved to New Orleans to get a graduate degree
in pastoral studies, arriving ten days before Hurricane Katrina. Like many in
Louisiana, the direction of Dan’s life was changed by the hurricane,
and he took a temporary detour and spent the next year working with activist
James Carville on hurricane relief for New Orleans, as well as other
progressive causes across the country. After finishing his master's degree, Dan was preparing
to enter law school when his life took another unexpected turn – his
mother was diagnosed with stage four melanoma. Giving up his dream of
studying public interest law, Dan returned home to care for his mother and
help her navigate the healthcare system. Through her ongoing – now
four-year – struggle, Dan has experienced, first-hand, the complexities
of the medical and insurance systems, and has seen how they hinder quality
care and demoralize families. While caring for his mother, Dan also began working
closely with filmmaker Ken Burns and Public Television to raise awareness of
America’s national parks and the challenges facing America’s
crumbling infrastructure, including the need to develop high speed and light
rail for the future. Dan also worked with veterans suffering from
posttraumatic stress disorder and with Mercy Corps to launch the Action
Center to End World Hunger. Throughout all of these experiences, Dan has seen the
realities of a country where you don’t have to be homeless, a hurricane
survivor, a cancer patient or an injured war veteran to feel left out. Dan
believes that there is nothing more important than restoring America to its
place of economic leadership, strengthening its middle class and ensuring
that government reflects the moral values of our people. To do that will
require a new generation of leaders armed with cutting-edge ideas, rather
than partisan politics. Whether its investing in the new innovation economy,
helping start-up businesses create sustainable jobs that can’t be
outsourced, protecting Social Security and Medicare while living within our
means, or finishing the difficult job of creating a health care system that works,
Dan Roberti believes that the people of Connecticut’s Fifth District
deserve a representative in Congress who fights for them.
Dinner with President Obama in
Stamford
Mayor Dan Malloy
Dr. Myrna Watanabe
&
State Senator Don Williams
Speaker of the House Christopher Donovan
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Former State
Treasurer
Senator Christopher Dodd
Comptroller Nancy Wyman
and
Susan Voight, New Haven Democratic Town |
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