Capitol Rotunda

January 30, 2006

Ladies & Gentlemen,

We (the People) want to thank you for your “involvement” in the political process.  With apathy, ignorance and distrust on one hand and the growing power of special interests on the other, the threat to representative democracy grows more real every day.  We need good people like yourselves to keep the system open and honest.  It is by the participation of good people that we can effect needed changes in the way we choose our elected officials and run our government, especially in Pennsylvania where bad politics has become the norm.

Even now, the power-hungry political machine works to prevent opposition to their anointed puppet candidates in the May primary.  Their goal of “politics as usual” is a primary without choices.  This arrogance, disrespect and manipulation of the political process must not go unchallenged.

Abraham Lincoln said –

“This country…belongs to the people…whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right…to overthrow it.”