Chris Reichard

Chris Reichard followed his father into IBEW Local 1, the electrical workers' union where his father spent forty years before retiring.¹ Reichard has belonged to the union for a decade and works in the electrical and communications trades.¹ He lives in Arnold.¹

Born in rural Tennessee and raised in High Ridge, Missouri, he enlisted in the Army at eighteen.² Six months later, he was in Iraq providing communications support.² His Army service ran from 2004 to 2012 and included three deployments.² His training included Army Signal Corps communications systems and a leadership course.²

After the military, Reichard continued working in communications construction, including a job with a nonunion company in Houston.² He later returned to Missouri and joined Local 1 as an electrician and communications technician.² His trade education includes a communications journeyman program at the St. Louis Electrical Industry Training Center.²

Reichard supports the PRO Act to strengthen workers' organizing rights and the Major Richard Star Act addressing benefits for combat injured veterans.¹ His platform calls for expanding Medicare coverage, funding rural hospitals and schools, and ending private education vouchers.³ He favors requiring advance estimates of war's human and financial costs.¹ He also advocates abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and banning congressional stock trading.³ His November opponents are Republican Jason Smith and Libertarian Rebecca Sharpe Lombard.⁴