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Boy, I wish I could write like Herbert Meyer. His strong words are a wake up call for us all…

“Our country’s future now lies within our own hands — yours, mine, all of us who comprise what the Washington insiders sneeringly call the grass roots. Good, because unless I’m very much mistaken the liberals have over-estimated their strength. There still are more of us than there are of them. I mean ordinary, decent Americans from across the political spectrum who may disagree about specific issues, but who understand who we are and how we became who we are; who love our country, have a genius for self-organizing, and won’t let the United States go down without a fight.

We need to launch a counter-offensive, so to speak, and the place to start is at the local level. Working with our county and state political parties when we can — or working around them when we must — our objective will be to elect as many people as we can to public office who understand what a democracy is and how the free market works. This will include city council members, county commissioners, school board members, judges, sheriffs and even members of the local parks commission. With the strength and political momentum their elections will provide, we can surge to the state level and then — before it’s too late — take back the power in Washington DC.

I know this isn’t the kind of battle most of us want to fight; we would rather watch the talking heads slug it out on Fox News than stand on a street corner handing out campaign flyers. And given our country’s history, for a while it will be uncomfortable to find ourselves fighting against the revolution and for the status quo. But we’ll get used to this as we make our case over and over again — to our friends, our neighbors, at barbeques and PTA meetings and at public rallies like those marvelous April tea parties that drove the liberals insane. And we’ll draw strength as our ranks swell with new recruits.”

Source: American Thinker: Revolution

This, in a nutshell, is why I am running. Please go to the source and read the whole article — it’s one of the best I’ve seen in a long time…

So where do we go from here? I have taken the step of deciding to run for the 8th Congressional District seat. Others will choose to do other things to keep the movement strong and viable. I have confidence that we will carry on in ever increasing numbers and voices to further the cause of our country’s economic well being. We have those in power today who are taking our country in a direction that is unsustainable and mistaken. I want to go to Washington and rejuvenate the Congress to act in the long-term best interests of our future. I will need your help. I cannot write checks to my campaign. I offer my time and energy. I need your donations to continue traveling across the district and speaking to the issues we conservatives hold dear.

I pledge to you that I will not use your money to run negative ads. I will not invade your privacy by authorizing robo-calls.  I will not accept money from Washington Lobbyists with no connections to the 8th District. Please consider giving me the opportunity to speak for you on the issues the Tea Party movement and real fiscal conservatives care about.

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