All Entries in the "Election Letters" Category
Corzine’s Spin Can’t Hide Record Job Losses
To the Editor:
All summer long, Jon Corzine has been touting gains in private sector jobs as “proof” that his policies have brought New Jersey out of recession. But his July claims vanished in an August “statistical update” and the September numbers show that we’ve lost another 12,000 private sector jobs as unemployment climbed to [...]
How To Lose Your Country
To the Editor:
It’s easy to drift along with life entrusting your future to nameless others. Someone will look after you or take care of getting the garbage out to the road. Your leaders know and care about you.
Not True if you don’t:
Know them.
Send them money.
Work on their campaigns.
Vote.
If you are not in one of these [...]
Are You Ready to Run for Political Office?
To the Editor:
As a professional political consultant, many would-be candidates come to me and say, “I want to run for office.” My response to them is always the same… “are you sure?”
Now, it may seem odd that I ask that question, given that my income is dependent on new candidates running for office and hiring [...]
Can Ron Paul Cure America’s Apathy?
To the Editor:
Most citizens in the United States of America do not vote. Many never registered to vote, many others are registered but simply don’t vote. In the last federal election, fifty nine percent of the registered voters in this country showed up to vote. Of approximately two hundred and seven million registered voters in [...]
How to Raise Money for Your Political Campaign
To the Editor:
Money is a fact of life in politics. Without it, campaigns find it extremely hard to get their message out, raise the profile of their candidate, and hire and equip staff to oversee the campaign’s volunteer and grassroots organizations. While most candidates would rather spend their time making speeches and thinking about the [...]
We The People
To the Editor:
We The People, three simple words that changed the world in July of 1776 and have changed the world every day since. It is truly mind boggling how those three words have based the way every person on the planet operates. People the world over yearn for the American dollar, American clothing, [...]
A Message of Hope
Once more our nation is filled with hope and resolve, peace, love and liberty to carry ourselves along with our brothers and sisters into a shining new era. We, the people of the United States of America, along with your brothers and sisters of the entire human race renew our vows to uphold life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Privilege Dies Hard, Even After the 2008 US Transition
The departing US president in his last press conference a week before the white industrialized world’s first non-white president would be inaugurated summed up the historic 2008 US transition. He said he saw people crying on TV after the election saying, “I never thought I’d see the day when a black person would be elected president.”
Seven Reasons Why McCain Failed
By Dennis Copson
On November 4th, Americans chose their next President with a convincing declaration that they were unhappy with the status quo and wanted dramatic change! They rejected experienced John McCain selecting an untested Barack Obama.
There were seven reasons for this: Foremost was the ‘Bush Factor’. However much he disavowed it, McCain was tagged as a [...]