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We all know that this election is too important for bumper sticker slogans; slick political sound bites oversimplifying complicated issues like healthcare, energy and our economy and that often deceive us into voting against our own interests. America’s problems are clear and the need for real solutions become more urgent as days pass.

As a good friend recently stated, “Shifting the balance of our symbiotic Left-Right 'Politics of Division' cannot solve the underlying problems. We must re-define the real-issues, abandon the Progressive-Conservative distraction, and re-frame the debate process.”

Recent debates involving health care, credit cards, jobs and financial reform have shown us the people’s interests are not being considered. Rather, our Bush era Supreme Court Justices have seen to it that big financial interests will continue to control not only our government, but our lives.

Well, the rules have changed—we can’t wait for Congress to act with integrity or find the courage to enact real reform. It's time to stop governing and electing by "bumper sticker." Now is the time for us to use the tools of government – regulation, oversight and enforcement – to break the stranglehold multi-national corporate interests have on our government.

NO MORE OF THE SAME

We must get our national priorities straight! Before we can more than marginally accomplish anything, we must have publicly financed campaigns and get the multi-national corporate money out of our politics.  We must stop sending incumbents who believe, as Rick Larsen does, that campaign reform is okay for judicial races, but not when it comes to his own campaign coffers.  We must stop sending the same people to Congress who fail to work for us and instead work for Wall Street.  Mr. Larsen made it clear that he stood with the banks when he voted for the Bankruptcy and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 and helped the GOP pass a bill that did nothing to protect consumers or the military from usurious interest rates.  Larsen's voting record reflects his pandering to the corporate interests who donate to his campaign.  We must restore the balance between the mega corporations and the people.  The scales have been tipped for too long in favor of the corporations.  We need them to invest in this country to create the jobs we need here; jobs that we need now.

As was all too clear with the recent “sausage making” in D.C., we need to elect candidates committed to public service who will not cave to the multi-national corporations.

Before I retired, I worked as an investigator fighting organized fraud; Now, I want to take that fight to Washington D.C., and help other like-minded, forward-thinking representatives take our nation—and the future back for our children and grandchildren.

VOTERS SPEAK

We've just added "Voters Speak" to our website.  Do you have something to suggest?  Do you want to comment on pending legislation?  Is there a problem in your community in the District that has not been addressed?  Do you want to participate in your government?  Then go to our forum and add your ideas, thoughts and suggestions.  We want to hear from you.  Let's discuss ideas for our future rather than complaining about the past! 

As Harry Truman said, “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

Please explore this web site; it will help us get acquainted.  You will also find links throughout the site leading to research, reports and articles that have helped define my positions.  We cannot govern effectively unless we deal in facts, not propaganda. 

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I keep my word, and I am not for sale. Your support and your vote is all we need to make a difference. Thank you.