This is my first diary on Daily Kos. It is great to be here.
In 2006, with almost no money and no paid staff, I defeated a party endorsed candidate in a five-way primary. Then, although I was outspent by more than 3-1, I went on to defeat two-term incumbent and multi-millionaire Jeb Bradley. I am immensely proud that my election proved that politics can be done differently in America. If someone tells you that the people power of community organizing isn’t strong enough to win elections, point them to NH-01.
I made my decision to run for Congress after volunteering for more than a month in the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast, and seeing the tragic results of absent or ineffectual government. I was intimately familiar with my opponent’s abandonment of the middle class because I spent the years leading up to 2006 fighting to call attention to the fact that the middle class has been stumbling and the poor have fallen, that our Constitution is endangered and that our disastrous policy in Iraq is costing our country in immeasurable ways.
This Thursday, we are launching our first campaign commercial of the 2008 election cycle. We want you to have a sneak preview.
That's my mother, a Republican for 83 years, joining me on camera to remind people that caring for our veterans is not a partisan issue but an national priority. I am using my seat on the Armed Services Committee to fight for better veterans care and I will not rest until NH veterans have the same access to care as other veterans in America.
I'm facing a tough fight, and I need your help. I don’t take corporate or lobbyist money and I never will. I am pragmatic and I understand that 2008 is a very different climate than 2006. NH is a swing state for the presidential election and a battleground state for our Senate.
Being a freshman in Congress, I have a GOP target on my back and I need your help so I can battle the swiftboating Freedom’s Watch and other outside groups that are obsessed with distorting my record.
I ran for Congress because no one was representing the rest of us, the bottom 99% that the Bush administration has left behind. I have proudly served the rest of us by standing up against FISA, increasing the minimum wage, fighting for the middle class, saying no to lousy trade deals, speaking out against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and telling the truth about Iraq.
I believe we are the people we have been waiting for. Please help send me back to Washington!
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