Thomas Jefferson Davis, a locomotive engineer for the past 23 years, said he is tired of seeing the middle class under constant fire in Ohio. He is running to represent District 90 in the Ohio House of Representatives.

“We’ve seen attacks on the middle class, from voting rights restrictions to the Homestead Exemption Act revision to tax changes that have hurt struggling families,” said Davis, who is President of Division 511 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET).

Ohio has cut income taxes, but in turn raised the sales tax by a half-percent.

“Who’s paying the bulk of the sales taxes? It’s the people who are struggling the most,” said Davis, who noted that the tax issue needs to be revisited to make it fairer to working families.

Davis said he is committed to supporting education, spending on infrastructure to create jobs and job creation in general. Scioto County in south central Ohio has been hard hit by the recession and the June 2014 unemployment rate was 8.3 percent.

“Helping and supporting working families is a stimulus package—we are the middle class,” Davis said.

Davis, an employee of the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has worked on the railroad for 25 years.

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