Duskin Lassiter often sees the world through a windshield. A few months ago that view was distressing enough that it motivated him to run for the U.S. Senate.
Lassiter is a self-employed trucker in Lexington who hauls everything from rolls of paper to Philadelphia or table salt to upstate New York. The effects of international trade agreements hit him head on.
“I service the manufacturing sector of this economy,” said Lassiter, 37, “and every time (U.S. Sen.) Elizabeth Dole or the Democrats sign a free trade agreement, my customers go out of business.”
Last fall, no Democrat had filed to run against Dole, a Republican, so Lassiter said he would. He began an uphill challenge to raise the money and earn the public recognition necessary to challenge Dole’s celebrity status.
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