Clyde for Congress!
Meet Clyde Jones, the candidate for U.S. Congress from AL District 1 💙
Indivisible Mobile wants you to meet our excellent candidate for Congress from District 1, which after the recent redistricting includes all of Mobile county (along with Baldwin, Escambia, and almost all of Covington counties). Let’s take the First!
Bio
Clyde W. Jones, Jr. served 21 years in the United States Army and received a Bronze Star Medal for his service in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom II.
After a career in the private sector, Clyde has served on the Board of Directors for Alabama Arise; was Chairman of the Education, Political, and Veterans Affairs Committee for the Baldwin County NAACP; President of the Board for Supporting Educational Excellence in Daphne Schools (SEEDS); and was a member of the Executive Committee for the Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation of the Episcopal Diocese of the Gulf Coast.
Today, he serves as an Associate Minister at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, where his faith fuels his dedication to justice and community empowerment.
What Clyde says
On Congressional reform:
“We need to take back Congress. I’m part of a coalition of over 100 congressional candidates all over the country, and that’s our mantra. We need to get that stock trading out of politics. We need to get Citizens United overturned. We need to get all that big money out of politics, because your politicians are obligated to those corporations more than they’re obligated to you. And we’re supposed to be representing you — not one person in the Oval Office, not any corporation.”
On redistricting:
“We know that they tried to redraw the lines to remove black representation. But what they didn’t think about is — they might have tried to remove it, but they made two districts that we can flip. Both of them. We can have both of them.”
On foreign wars:
“Our oldest son is a major in the army. He’s deployed to the Middle East right now. We need people in [office] who really understand the cost of sending your sons and daughters overseas making decisions about war. We have people in Washington D.C. right now who aren’t qualified for any position, let alone the highest positions in the land.”
On compassion and affordability:
“I was talking to an individual the other day, and he was giving me pointers about talking points, and he said something about compassion — that ‘compassion can only go so far. People want to hear about economics. Sure, gas prices are high, housing prices are high. We need to fix affordability.’ But if you have no compassion, you don’t care about that either. You don’t care about people who can’t afford healthcare. You don’t care that they can’t afford their rent or their mortgage.”
