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34 PalletCentral • September-October 2018 palletcentral.com WPCA reminds you to get out and vote! As you may know, election results have become tighter-and-tighter with margins of victory incredibly close in many recent races. The 2018 mid-term elections will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, and these mid- term elections take place in the middle of President Trump's first term. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested. To gain control of Congress, Democrats need to pick up two Senate seats and 23 seats in the House. These are some races to watch and why it matters to the wood packaging industry; U.S. Representatives John Faso (R-NY), Jeff Denham (R-CA), Jackie Walorski (R-IN) and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). California: Jeff Denham (R) Congressman Jeff Denham's (Republican, CA-10th) seat is being challenged by Democrat investor Josh Harder. Democrats are targeting his seat, and a Democratic PAC is taking aim to undermine Jeff Denham from calling himself a farmer on the ballot. "Red to Blue," California, a Democratic PAC, plans to petition a state court to order California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to remove Mid-Term Elections POLITICS By Patrick Atagi, Vice President Advocacy & External Affairs W H Y I T M AT T E R S T O T H E W O O D PA C K A G I N G S E C T O R N