I'm
Angie Paccione and I'm running for Congress in Colorado's Congressional 4th District against Marilyn Musgrave. The excitement and the momentum about this race is continuing to build. I invite you to come watch my
first TV ad, which was written about in the
New York Times.
I'm bringing a message of change to every part of the Fourth District. For 15 months, the common wisdom and the naysayers said that a victory in Colorado's Fourth District would be impossible. I've been campaigning for over 15 months, building bridges throughout the entire district, and it's paying off. Marilyn is in a lot of trouble, because Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are uniting to send Marilyn to retirement.
My message of
real national security, a renewable energy economy, and protecting Social Security is resonating. Why? Because we have a massive failure of leadership that has weakened America abroad and left us exposed at home. A failure of leadership that has, sold out to special interests, keeps us dependent on foreign oil, and wants to privatize Social Security. This incompetence, corruption and cronyism in Washington is hurting average Coloradans, and they've had enough.
Both the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post show that Marilyn Musgrave is in serious trouble. The DCCC just put my campaign onto their Red To Blue list and we've raised over $1.1 million - almost all of it from Colorado small donors. Marilyn is known on the national stage for her extremist politics and her radical positions, but, believe it or not, in my District, she's even better known for being an ineffectual rubber stamp to the Bush administration.
So . . . Marilyn has launched her usual campaign of negative attack ads. After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, not once has she come out saying what good she's done or will do for the people in our district. The Washington Post not too long ago showed us the Republican playbook, and Marilyn is following it down to the letter.
It's not working. Democrats all across the country need to know that if they fight back, refuse to be tarred by character assassination, bring a message of change and tell the people the truth about their opponent, this strategy of wedge issues will never get off the ground.
Marilyn needs to lie about my record; all I have to do is tell the truth about hers.
As I put it to the folks I talk to, all Marilyn has left is Smear & Fear. That goes for the GOP leadership in Washington, as well. They are pouring resources into this race to try and stop me, but they have been taking the American people for granted for too long.
Yet when it comes to issues like national security, it takes Democrats like myself who are willing to talk about real security. It is rubber stamps like Marilyn Musgrave who defend incompetent leadership like Donald Rumsfeld while voting against long overdue measures that have been recommended by the 9/11 Commission .
My friends, a new day is at hand for this country, come November. I know you feel it. I read the posts and comment on Daily Kos supporting my campaign, and I thank every one of you. Here in Colorado, hundreds of people are involved every day. I can't tell you what it's like to campaign all day and come back at ten or eleven at night to see volunteers who refuse to go home. They know the stakes for this country, and they are on the ground here, fighting hard for all of America. Colorado is hearing the truth about Marilyn Musgrave, and they don't like it. America is ready, and the people of the Fourth District are ready for real leadership.
Best to you,
Angie Paccione
http://angie2006.com