Dan Fonte is an Ohio Alliance activist and leader in Canton, Ohio.
Seven years ago, he retired as the business manager of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local 94 after 24 years working there. Currently, he serves as the director of the Harry Mayfield Senior Center in South Canton.
On January 10th, at Walsh University in North Canton, Fonte confronted newly elected Congressman Jim Renacci (R) on repealing health reform. It’s well worth a watch here:
Fonte’s apt question prompted Cleveland’s Plain Dealer to construct a “PolitiFact” check on Renacci’s statement that there are “a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go into place as a result of health care reform.” The “truthometer” generously rated Renacci’s statement as “barely true.”
Photos: Top ~ Dan Fonte speaks at a Social Security forum in Canton; Bottom ~ Dan Fonte MC's a candidate forum in Ohio.
On why he stands up for the health reform law, Fonte says, “I don’t look at just me and my case; I look at the broad spectrum and if it’s gonna help people.”
Fonte said, “When my parents immigrated to this country,” he said, “it was because of a union job that my father could afford to raise a family and have health care."
Pension security and senior issues are important to Fonte. Fonte says that he stands up to Representatives like Jim Renacci on issues such as health care and Social Security out of respect for future generations, stating, “Not everybody’s gonna get pulled up by their bootstraps.” He holds Representatives like Jim Renacci accountable on such issues for his children and grandchildren and “for working people who’ve struggled so long all their lives.”
“When you’re a doer, you’re a doer,” Fonte said. The Alliance is glad that Dan Fonte is a doer.
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