Colonel Greg Raths, USMC (RET) For U.S. Congress 2016

Dear Mission Viejo Voters,

I pray this message finds you well and with loved ones. 2016 is an unprecedented year for our great country. We are faced with great political turmoil and we have several very important decisions that we must carefully consider in the very near future. Together we must awaken ourselves and our friends and neighbors of which our nation consists of. Our patriotism must be reinvigorated. We must be steadfast in our determination to change the status quo in Washington, D.C. that has not brought much if any positive changes to the lives of the people of our United States. We must return to our essential founding principles, that we are a country of the people, by the people, and for the people. We must be as productive and as efficient as possible in these crucial years for our nation. We can not let unfair, misplaced, and misguided laws and regulations that do not serve the American people get in our way.

The beauty of our nation is that each and every citizen is dedicated to improving their lives through succeeding in our free market society, which lends its opportunity to all those that work hard with a desire to prosper within it. The ability to provide a life for their children where they can be independent and lead meaningful and flourishing lives. Today there is a misguided trend of which many place their dependence on the government, rather than themselves. Unfortunately, it seems that the notion that Americans are capable of making their own lives better through their own fruits of labor seems to have slowly been eroded by complacency and the abandoning of the very principles that made our country a shining beacon of economic prosperity for the rest of the modern world. The main role of our federal government is to defend this great nation from its numerous enemies. This requires our people to be strong and independent, to be without weakness and dependence which must be observed through every facet of life and social climate.

I am proud to declare that as a U.S. Marine Corps officer for over thirty years, that I flew jet fighters in defense of freedom and the very principles that make our nation and our world great., and I truly believe now more than ever that we are at a landmark point in our history and the negative direction that our politicians have pushed upon us must be stopped, and the momentum must be reversed. I am absolutely sick and tired of politics as usual in Washington. I am determined in my very essence, in my soul, to serve my country, and to serve the people of California's 45th Congressional District. In doing so, I ask you for your support. I need your help in altering the political climate that has plagued Washington, D.C. and our great nation.

There are no special interests that will bend my will, there is no force that will ever compel me to abandon my determination to serve the will of the people of the 45th Congressional District. I will be a force to be reckoned going to Washington, D.C. to turn back the tide and to fix this political upheaval forcefully pushed upon us, sewed by career politicians that are selfishly maintaining their power, while abandoning the principles that made the United States of America the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, and ignoring the will of the very people that elected them into office. I will never make that mistake, I will never abandon the will of my beloved people, my fellow Americans. I will only do what I know is right, and I will be a champion of the principles that made this nation the bright paradise that it is. Thank

Thank you and God bless you,

Greg Raths

Councilman, City of Mission Viejo

Colonel USMC (Retired)

www.gregraths.com