Seth Magaziner | Rhode Island’s 2nd District

Seth is a lifelong Rhode Islander, a new dad to Max, and husband to Julia. He is running for Congress to fight for the middle class and those working hard to join it. Seth will work to help Rhode Islanders keep up with the cost of living by protecting Social Security and Medicare, lowering the price of prescription drugs, and returning big oil company profits back to consumers. Seth will stand up for a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions and pass common-sense gun safety legislation. Currently, Seth serves on the House Homeland Security and Natural Resource Committees.

Seth has served as Rhode Island’s General Treasurer since 2015 where he has delivered results for the Second Congressional District by investing in education, job creation, and clean energy infrastructure. As Chair of the state’s school building task force, Seth launched a once-in-a-generation plan to transform Rhode Island school buildings so all students can go to schools that are safe, warm, and dry, and have the facilities to prepare them for 21st-century jobs. Under his leadership, the statewide school construction initiative has created more than 28,000 jobs and helped to repair or replace over 189 schools, like Eden Park and Garden City Elementary Schools in Cranston.

Seth believes we can restore the American Dream for all Rhode Island families, a Dream he knows well from his own family. Seth’s grandfathers were both sons of immigrants, grew up poor, and fought in World War II. Neither graduated from college but were able to find good, middle-class jobs – his Grandpa Bob as a union steelworker in Worcester and his Grandpa Louis as a bookkeeper at a fruit canning company in New York. With those jobs, they started families, sent their kids to college, and bought homes. Their kids, Seth’s parents, both graduated from college and started a business together in Rhode Island. In turn, they built a life for Seth and his siblings, that his grandparents never could have imagined.

This was the American Dream that was so common a generation ago – the promise that with hard work and perseverance, each generation can leave a better life for their kids than they had for themselves. That American Dream of economic mobility has broken down for many families and was never afforded to others. Seth believes we can only restore the American Dream if we send representatives to Washington who will fight for working families and stand up to Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy, and the national Republicans who seek to divide America, undermine democracy, and appeal to the most chaotic, hateful and dangerous elements of their party.