# Linda Rayburn: Candidate Statement

I am the Working Class Party Candidate for the State House, district 4.

I grew up poor, living in Black and Brown, white and immigrant communities.

Linda Rayburn, 4th District State House | Working Class Fight

I know what it’s like when the system fails families, when it turns a blind eye to children, when working class education and neighborhoods are left to crumble. When the majority of us are left to rot.

I am running to say, enough is enough. Our needs have to be the priority rather than profits. We are valuable. Working people have earned the right to say what happens, because we make it all run.

I am now a substitute teacher, recently accepted into Wayne State University, while taking care of a home in Detroit I share with my partner, a working class man whose factory job leaves little time and energy.

Linda Rayburn grew up in Black, Brown, white, and immigrant communities. She was recently accepted into Wayne State University. She shares a home in Detroit with her partner.

I am now a substitute teacher, recently accepted into Wayne State University, while taking care of a home in Detroit I share with my partner, a working class man whose factory job leaves little time and energy.

Most women do the grunt work and childcare. Often we try to make better lives for ourselves but see the odds stacked against us. We are expected to prop up and take care of everyone and everything around us. Do we get paid for this work? No, but it is essential. We raise up the next generation or take care of the last. We are the care and concern that is so often absent in this world.

I know what it’s like when the system fails families, when it turns a blind eye to children, when working class education and neighborhoods are left to crumble. When the majority of us are left to rot.

I am running to say, enough is enough. Our needs have to be the priority rather than profits. We are valuable. Working people have earned the right to say what happens, because we make it all run.

I grew up poor, living in Black and Brown, white and immigrant communities. When I was 4, my dad went to prison after pulling a gun on our neighbor who called him a N*****. Black men are the most over-represented in mass incarceration. I know racism, poverty and an unjust criminal justice system that tears families apart.

Being a single, disabled parent, my mom struggled, while raising bi-racial children in Detroit. I watched as the everyday pressures of stretching a dollar to pay bills, food and rent took a toll on her physically and mentally. On top of all that, she had to fight practically full-time for my autistic brother not to be excessively disciplined, suspended or teased in under-resourced schools. The U.S. government and education system failed us and continues to fail families’ lives!

I’ve worked many jobs, but most of what I’ve done is caregive for the sick and elderly. Beginning in my childhood, I became a caregiver to my brother and my mom, helping them manage their disabilities and navigate “the system.” Later I took care of my dad with cancer and grandpa with COPD after they were released from prison. Society organized rationally would have stepped up and stepped in. But in capitalism, it fell on me as a child to grow up fast with adult responsibility. It’s barbaric.

At HFCC, I had to balance studies, trying to keep up a 3.5 GPA, being in the honor society, while working as a Home Health Aide. I administered meds and cooked for patients as well as bathed them and cleaned and entertained them. Like me, “essential” workers are undervalued, overworked and underpaid.

Linda Rayburn has worked as a substitute teacher and a home health aide and has provided care for sick and elderly people.

Linda has worked as a substitute teacher and a home health aide and has provided care for sick and elderly people.

# Linda Rayburn: Candidate Statement

I am the Working Class Party Candidate for the State House, district 4.

I grew up poor, living in Black and Brown, white and immigrant communities. When I was 4, my dad went to prison after pulling a gun on our neighbor who called him a N*****. Black men are the most over-represented in mass incarceration. I know racism, poverty and an unjust criminal justice system that tears families apart.

State House
District 4, Linda Rayburn: 1,014 votes, 3.36%
District 7, Kimberly Givens: 1,210 votes, 3.51%

November 2020 Vote Results for Working Class Party (Michigan)

In 2020, Linda was the Working Class Party candidate for State House District 4 and received 1,014 votes.

2026 Michigan General Election

Nonpartisan

The government robs us of our hard earned money to invest in wars we don't want and bail out corporations. Force us to come more out of our pockets to fix the schools and roads that should have already been taken care of. They leach off of us. They stir up hate and bigotry and divide us. Allowing and encouraging police and right wing thugs to use violence directed at Black lives as well as the poor and working class.

Speech by Linda Rayburn

Opposes government bailouts of corporations.

- Opposes government bailouts of corporations.

Economy

As of September 4, 2026, Linda Rayburn did not have a website or any information online.

Public Safety

We're all suffering. It didn't start with the pandemic. It's just opening our eyes even more, knowing we have to do something about it. I'm sick and tired of it. There is enough money to remove poverty. There is enough money for a good standard of living. There is enough money for universal health care. There is enough money for funding and resources in our public schools and our neighborhoods. We already know this but we're still having to fight.

Healthcare

Calls for funding and resources for public schools and neighborhoods.

- Calls for funding and resources for public schools and neighborhoods.

Education

Energy & the Environment

Opposes government spending on wars that she says people do not want.

- Opposes government spending on wars that she says people do not want.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Voting & Elections

Linda Rayburn

As of September 4, 2026, Linda Rayburn’s website did not contain information on this issue.

I am the Working Class Party Candidate for the State House, district 4.

I grew up poor, living in Black and Brown, white and immigrant communities.

Linda Rayburn: Candidate Statement

I am now a substitute teacher, recently accepted into Wayne State University, while taking care of a home in Detroit I share with my partner, a working class man whose factory job leaves little time and energy.

Linda Rayburn grew up poor, living in Black, Brown, white, and immigrant communities. She was accepted into Wayne State University. She shares a home in Detroit with her partner.

Said the government allows and encourages police and right-wing violence against Black people and poor and working-class people.

Supports funding and resources for public schools and neighborhoods.

Opposes government investment in wars "we don't want" and corporate bailouts.

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