Endorsements for Rachele Fruit’s campaign for U.S. president have begun to arrive at the Militant.
After hearing her running mate, Dennis Richter, speak at a campaign meeting in Minneapolis May 15, Ned Neterval endorsed. “It’s the only campaign that has workers’ interests in mind,” he told Gabrielle Prosser, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Minnesota.
Neterval is a member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663. He works stocking shelves.
Jenny Benton, who works as a cashier at a large hardware store chain, also endorsed the campaign. She plans to join the petitioning effort to get Fruit on the ballot in Minnesota.
“The campaign for Rachele Fruit is a critical voice in what is needed for working people to begin to understand and know the power we have to move humanity forward and see the U.S. working class as part of the international working class,” Benton said. “The Socialist Workers Party candidates, nationally and locally, are the only ones doing that.”
In New Jersey, Evril Goldsberry endorsed Fruit’s campaign after meeting with SWP member Craig Honts, a former co-worker of hers at Walmart.
Along with working as a cashier at Walmart, Goldsberry works as a nurses aide at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Passaic. Last summer she hosted a campaign barbecue fundraiser at her house.
“I endorse Fruit’s campaign because this is a party for lower-class workers and seniors,” she said. “And we need something different from the Democrats and Republicans.”
From Chicago, John Martinez mailed in his endorsement along with a $330 contribution “to help spread the word.”
