Chandler Stewart Hadraba

     Life began in Atlanta, Georgia. As has happened to so much of urban America, boyhood home is now section 8 housing and the hospital I was born in has closed.

     My father, John worked in sales for a large corrugated box company, whose customer base included some of the largest companies in America. After breaking some sales records, John was called into the company HQ to celebrate his success. When he parked his car, he was right next to his bosses car, and he noticed  a small booklet next to the driver's-side door.  The booklet, which belong to his boss, detailed the compensation rates based upon how much sales grew and how much the stock price increased. Knowing just how much John made for the company and the C-Suite executives, John was confident that his compensated, with either a size-able bonus or a raise.  The entire executive team was there to acknowledge John's great work and to offer much praise, but there was neither a bonus nor a raise.  

     The next day, John came back to his boss's office, gave him back the compensation book and said,"I think you dropped this."  Then went home.  Joan, his wife, was shocked by these events; so, together they decided to leave Atlanta.  John would join his brother in business in suburban Chicago, which enabled Joan to be closer to the family farm and her parents.  They left Atlanta in a VW station wagon, with me in a cardboard box, wrapped in blankets, next to the family dog.  Starting over was tough; but the company John worked for was so concerned that the business he gained might be lost, so they continued to pay him for the next 2 years. 

     My father's experience in Atlanta was a lesson to me on how large corporations almost never compensate lower level workers the way upper management is paid.  This is why large corporations do not need tax breaks or other corporate welfare, considering just how obscene most executive-level pay is compared to pay of the employees who actually make the company money.  Small business owners and executives in small corporations do not spend $1,000,000 to redecorate there office, as the CEO of General Motors did back in the 1980's.  Most job growth comes from small and medium-sized business. We need a fair and uniform tax code from businesses in Idaho; we need to provide opportunities for smaller businesses, and not give preference to big corporations.   

     Going back to suburban Chicago: John's and his brother's business grew enough to hire others and expand operations.  In addition to portion control co-packing, they had a line of frozen flavored popsicles, under the brand name, "Freeze Pops".  However, because the season for popsicles in Chicago is quite limited, they wanted stronger year round sales, so picked a place with a warm climate year round, Jamaica. A factory was opened in Jamaica, and their on island partner, Mr. Chinn was a Jamaican national of Chinese origin.  This business was also a success- so much so, that John considered moving the family to Jamaica.  However, when Michael Manley took over of the People's National Party(PNP), after he had embraced "Democratic Socialism", he vowed to enact various programs.  When they won a strong majority in elections, they then began a program of forced Nationalization of businesses not owned by native, black Jamaicans.  Both John and Mr, Chinn were the wrong race.  Even though Mr. Chinn was Jamaican, he was of Chinese ancestry, so forced taking of there business began.  Unfortunately, the Chinese history in Jamaica does mirror that of America, with riots and violence towards Asians on Island.  They lost it all, not because they failed in the marketplace, but because they were the wrong race.  This is why I am against "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion(DEI)", or any race based program. Sadly, my opponent and the Idaho Democratic Party are in favor of DEI policies, and excessive government regulations that negatively impact the free market and our individual lives.  

    What happened to John also happened to my uncle Chandler, my name sake.  Chandler ran a successful printing business in Havana, Cuba.  Back stateside, Chandler's brother(Sam) called him one day asking about two rebels, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara.  Chandler's response was, "It's just a couple of rebels, up in the hills, it happens all the time and will be over soon."

     As a result of the Communist Revolution in Cuba, Chandler ending up penniless on the streets of Miami, with his family.  They took everything he had at gunpoint, and luckily, Chandler had a U.S. passport and was not shot on site.  This marks the second time that part of my family lost everything due to "progressive policy", being enacted in the western hemisphere.

     If voters continue to vote for my opponent and the Democratic Party, what happened to my family will happen to your family.  There is also a chapter of the Democrat Socialists of America right here in Boise.  Progressive ideology is here, the policies are too, unless we stop this now, "progressive" laws and rules will be forced upon us and enforced against us.  

     My great uncle Theodore, was an Undersecretary of Commerce for the US government, attached to the US embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia.  Unfortunately, this was the late 1930's when under the Munich Agreement, we handed over the only successful post WWI democracy, to the Nazi Party.  Living under Nazi rule is tough, even more so when your wife is a Czech national, with family still in country. 

    My family is predominately Slavic, and the rules under German Occupation deemed Slavic people, an inferior race.  However, Hitler saw the Slavic people useful; so, rather than send them to concentration/death camps, he placed them on a 1,000 calorie a day diet.  This is a starvation diet, which would lead to the long term extermination of the Slavic race.  Although my uncle was full-blooded Slavic, he was in Czechoslovakia with a diplomatic passport, so the US government was able to extract him and his immediate family from Nazi rule.  The rest of the family was not so lucky; they were under Nazi rule from 1938-1945. Considering the high profile position held by my uncle, this created exceptional risk to other family members, who were unable to be evacuated.  There was a family friend, a prominent Czech general, who fled the country rather than endure the humiliation of surrendering to the Nazis in uniform and to turn over all military hardware as ordered by the Allies.  He left his wife and children behind, assuming they would be left alone as was tradition because they were non-combatants.  However, the Nazi's saw things differently and sent his wife to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, which she fortunately survive.  

     Now that you know this family history, actually suffering under Nazi occupation, I take great offense whenever anyone attempts to slur me with the, white nationalist, christian supremacist, Neo-Nazi label.  My family has lost everything at gunpoint to socialists(including the National Socialist German Workers Party, aka Nazi Party.  I am here to fight for you, the values of our founding documents, and to work to prevent socialist/communists from taking away our liberties here in Idaho.