Rep. Brad Miller

100 years ago, the monopolies took over this country, and it took a man by the name of Teddy Roosevelt to break them up and restore fairness.   We’re looking for some more politicians like that — we’d like you to meet Rep. Brad Miller.

“For all the unfairness in this country, for all the corruption that I perceive for instance in our banking system, for all the various rigging and at the very least misaligned incentives that exist in our financial system, our trade system and our tax system, I can’t think of anybody who represents a national level politician who understands these issues and is aggressively trying to use his job to try to fight them,” says Dylan.

What are the core issues of financial corruption that are at the root of the joblessness in this country?  At the root of the unfairness in this country?  What are the issues that have let to a lack of innovation and creativity in this country?  “The very same issues that plagued our country a hundred years ago plague ourselves once again,” says Dylan.

Rep. Miller has been hugely active in protecting consumers from predatory financial practices going well before the financial crisis.  He’s the lead sponsor of a piece of legislation to protect home owners from predatory mortgage lending.  He’s an outspoken critic of pay and equity between workers and top corporate executives who are benefiting from what we see as the rigged banking and trade systems.  The Wall Street Journal calls the Congressman “among the most outspoken Democrats on the issue of inequality,” and there is no issue that is more determinative to the future of our country, to the very concept of our nation than that of equality, and the very least equality of opportunity.