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A Bone for Brandy the Dog.

A voter from Lacey who prefers anonymity withdrew their support because I support those who are helping me in the fight against corruption.

Sorry to hear that, but, hey, your vote is exactly that - your vote. If you’re willing to make this a one-issue campaign, remember this. In the universe of people you can vote for, you have Me, Tom MacArthur and Aimee Belgard...MAYBE Robert Edward Forchion, but I spoke to him this evening, and he is not likely to come up with the necessary dollars to provide transcripts, so he will have been illegally removed, and then blocked from appeal of his illegal removal by MONEY.

So, again...

You can vote for me - the guy who’s been working to clean up the corruption in your community, your county, and your State, and who intends to take that effort to Washington...the guy who stood up to block the granting of an MOA for the Beesley’s Point Generating Station Pipeline SHORTCUT - which would have given precedent to allow such lovely things in the future as storage of medical waste and fracking waste on the unused acreage at Oyster Creek, and would have gutted the Comprehensive Management Plan.

The guy who stood up for the Veterans and worked (and continues to work) for solutions to access to care for our veterans, when Jon Runyan said his 7 months’ remaining tenure was not enough time to make a simple phone call.

The guy whose consolidation proposal in health care would give greater access at lower cost than the three bureaucracies presently serving the public...and would cause more competition in the private sector, lowering costs there, as well.

The guy who is standing up to the machine politicians in your community, county and state to keep them out of your wallet/purse at tax time by reducing costs in counsel, and proposed creating a State Bond Authority to stop future robberies like the one that happened on the solar panels.

The guy who didn’t “support” cancer research - who DID cancer research.

The guy who coordinated the Physically Challenged Assistance Program in the NJ/PHILA region for Chrysler for over a decade.

The guy who is a leader in the Schools Movement STATE-WIDE, and who has proposed alternative solutions to the debacle that is the “Pearson Common-Core curriculum”.

The guy who is actively shepherding efforts in three other States to see the Equal Rights Amendment ratified - who used TItle XIX regulations to force Stockton State College, now Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, to allow the formation of a Women’s Soccer Team - (and served as it’s first coach).

The guy who is working with former Scoutmaster Donald E. Letton, our candidate in CD1, to sponsor two Police Explorer and two Fire Explorer Posts, each associated with a Boy Scout / Cub Scout troop, to help Camden “grow their own” leaders for the generations to come.

The untiring advocate for fair and equal access to the ballot, and for replacement of the corrupt Sequoia machines, which we have already proven in court can be rigged.

Yeah, that guy.

Or Tom MacArthur, Gilmore’s Puppet, who will do whatever his sponsors tell him to, or Aimee Belgard, Norcross’ puppet, whose job it is to protect the base vote for Booker and lose gracefully.

If you’re dissatisfied with who supports ME, or who I support, you must use your vote as you choose.

If you honestly believe I am not the best choice, then vote accordingly. If you do believe that I AM the best choice of the candidates before you, and my loyalty to those who would stand with me bothers you, you could also just stay home on election day - although I would rather you still voted and just left that lever un-pulled.

Voting for someone else just to spite who I am, and where I stand, is your prerogative...the kind of voting choice where someone walks into the polls to vote AGAINST a candidate, not knowing what they get in return. That doesn’t ever work out well, does it?

Regina believed them until she found out they were lying. Now that she’s discovered that the Emperor has no clothes, she has also discovered that there are many who would rather avert their eyes than acknowledge the naked truth before them.

Just remember - Paul was a Roman soldier before he was an Apostle.

IF I have lost your vote, so be it. You have NOT lost the level of Representation I will bring to Washington, so, for you, when I win, you win anyway. My job will be to represent both my supporters and my detractors. I know that’s not how the party folks do it, but that’s what the job description actually calls for.

Lacey is far from the only place that the solar panel scam was tried - or has already been pulled. There are many others like it. We don’t know them all, but, thanks to people who are willing to speak out, we are learning of new issues daily. Naturally, it takes some serious research of our own to confirm each issue, and we only act when we KNOW we’re in the right.

The recall may have a cost. I assure you, it isn’t close to how much you’ve already lost - and it will stop further hemorrhaging of your School Tax and Property Tax dollars.

The savings on what we propose on municipal and school board counsel alone go a long way toward recovering the cost of the recall and any other action - because you’re being billed by your attorneys to defend the bad acts that have already taken place.

Lacey Matters to me. It matters to you.

I don’t think you can say that about some others in the race. Sure, your VOTE matters, but you don’t really expect them to speak to the public when it’s over, do you?

I hope I’m wrong. You have an awful lot of veterans in Lacey - I found it astonishing that the other two had to almost be DRAGGED to a VFW to debate - while both postured that the other was avoiding it.

There’s more to say, and more for you to say, but, if you’ve made your decision on the basis of that single issue, so be it.

Know them by what they value most.

“Stand for what’s right, or settle for what’s left” - Frederick John LaVergne, YOUR NEXT CONGRESSMAN in CD3

btw - typed here - no rough draft, no campaign managers checking my diction or spelling...that’s how I speak, because it’s what I mean.

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