By Kimberly Fiorello
Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, has written a fantastic new book entitled “The Real Race Revolutionaries: How Minority Entrepreneurship Can Overcome America’s Racial and Economic Divides.” I’m reading it and absolutely loving it.
Alfredo Ortiz will be zooming into Connecticut to talk about his important book. I hope you will join me for this online forum with Mr. Ortiz on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 from 7:30 to 8:30PM via Zoom. Please find zoom link at bit.ly/DefendingSmallBusinesses or at www.thefederatedclub.com.
All are welcome to listen to his remarks, ask questions, and engage in a conversation with Mr. Ortiz who heads our country’s leading small business advocacy organization. If you own a business in Connecticut, tell Mr. Ortiz what it’s like for you. He can be a voice for you on the national stage.
Born to immigrants who settled in Chula Vista, California, Mr. Ortiz says he saw the value of the American Dream and chased after it and, now, he wants to make sure every small business owner has the same opportunity to make that dream a reality as well.
Mine is a similar story. I grew up with both my mother and my grandmother — Korean women
immigrants to the United States — as examples of small business owners. My mother had a
coffee shop just outside Washington DC and my grandmother a hair salon in the suburbs of
Philadelphia.
My mom’s coffee shop helped my parents to buy a home, pay the mortgage, raise their children, support their church, help other Koreans who wanted to start businesses, and more. I hope you will join for this conversation with Alfredo Ortiz about how much entrepreneurism benefits minorities versus more government handouts and more social programs that reinforce dependency on government. We need more people across our state to put their energies towards good policy ideas for Connecticut to grow and thrive.
Please find zoom link at bit.ly/DefendingSmallBusinesses or at www.thefederatedclub.com.
See these reviews of Mr. Ortiz’s new book:
Hugh Hewitt, host of the Hugh Hewitt Show:
“There is no organization in America that better defends small business owners and free enterprise than the great team at Job Creators Network. This new book, written by JCN’s president Alfredo Ortiz, brings together the best data and research on the causes of wealth gaps among and between racial and ethnic groups, and the very best way to close those gaps, which is entrepreneurship. It’s a great read, and a compelling case for small business.”
Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU and host of the Dennis Prager Show:
“Alfredo Ortiz heads one of my favorite organizations, Job Creators Network. Now he has written one of my favorite books of the last few years. Small business creation, Ortiz persuasively argues, is the pathway to prosperity for Americans of any race or ethnicity. Ortiz reminds us that this has been true for all of our history. It remains the best path forward.”
Bernie Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot and founder of Job Creators Network:
“In this book, Alfredo persuasively makes the case that the government must do less, not more, to allow minority entrepreneurs to achieve the American Dream and overcome racial economic disparities. Celebrating the stories and successes of minority entrepreneurs can generate the public support needed to defend the free-market economy against big government threats. These ordinary entrepreneurs are the heroes of modern-day America, even if they are frequently treated as villains by government officials who siphon their resources to fund their latest social policy aims. This book asks you to treat minority entrepreneurs with the respect they deserve, and to consider how bad public policy prevents them from surviving and thriving.”