Volunteers - Netroots - We Continue to Need Your Help!
We are in crunch time now three weeks left before Election Day! We continue to need your help, folks!
We have many volunteers from across the 69 counties of the First District but we need more if we want to take back control of our Congress. I promise you that I will not be outworked, but I can't do it alone. I need you and your continued help.
I've got some ideas for you! Click "more"!!!!
Write Letters to the Editors of Newspapers!
Please write letters to your local newspaper editors. Help with this can be found at http://www.dollforcongress.org/.... We have tips for writing letters, addresses to write the letters to, and suggested ideas for topics here!
Send E-Mails to Kansans!
Add new folks to your e-mail list and tell them about us and send them to our website. Send e-mails to all the Kansans you know! Let them see what we will do for our state and our country at http://www.dollforcongress.org/....
Help us knock on doors!
Please join us! We have a real chance to win this race, with your help. To learn more about our "Doorbelling Events", please go to www.dollforcongress.org/action-doorbelling.html. There, you will be able to "sign up" on our "volunteer" form and also to read more about the doorbelling events. But, we cannot do it without you. You may also write here if you are interested in learning more about doorbelling and canvassing. Or you can go to www.dollforcongress.org/volunteer.html to sign up. Help us!!
Yard Signs!
If you would like a yard sign for your home or business, or a billboard sign for your highway or major intersection, please e-mail us at dollforcongress@cox.net or call our office at 620-275-1750 and we will see that you get as many as you need.
Even More Ideas... Check Them Out!
For more ideas to get involved, please go to http://www.dollforcongress.org/...!
Campaign Trail Update
For an update on our campaign schedule and appearances, please go to www.dollforcongress.org/schedule.html.
We spent this last week in Dodge City, Hays, Cimarron, Junction City, and Abilene. Every day we continue to hear that our country needs to change. The morality and confidence of the Congress has never been lower.
Kansans Ask, "What's the Matter With Congress?"
Since we have become a one party system, (after the election of 2000), our average monthly health care premiums have risen from $342 to $603. Annual deductibles have doubled. Today 46 million Americans (including 8.4 million children) have no health insurance, an increase of 6 million since 2006.
Our price of gas has doubled, with the top oil companies earning nearly 25 billion dollars a quarter. Many congressman have pocketed profits.
Our Federal Government has created the biggest budget deficit, debt, and trade imbalance ever while cutting funding for domestic needs like education, Medicare, and agriculture. House Republicans chopped education programs by 14.3 billion dollars, the highest ever. College tuition has increased 34 percent since 2000.
Simply put, the one party system has failed for the middle class people and for the people of the United States. We cannot continue the failed policies of Washington and hold on to the status of the greatest country ever. We need change.
As Congress continues to vote itself wage increases ($20,000 over the last ten years), it has rejected increasing minimum wage unless there is an elimination of estate tax included in the bill. The typical wage earner has seen his earned dollar decrease in buying power each year that the one party system has had control of the Federal Government. The administration claims that our GNP continues to grow and unemployment has remained steady but in reality our economy has been able to maintain because our government continues to throw borrowed money at it.
President Bush's tax cuts favor the rich. About 87 percent of tax benefits go to the 14 percent of households with incomes above $100,000. Households with incomes below $75,000, three quarters of all households, altogether receive a tiny fraction each of just five percent of those cuts.
Since these tax cuts for the wealthy have reduced revenues for the federal government, our states and cities have been forced to substantially raise sales taxes, state income taxes, and property taxes. The result? The middle class now pays more in taxes then it ever has in history. Why? Because the Republican-controlled Congress gave our money away to the smallest handful of the wealthiest few.
We have to stop this degradation of our economy, our jobs, and our respect in the world community.
This November, we must stop it dead in its tracks.
This November we have the opportunity to seize our government back.
I need your help, folks! I am strictly running a grassroots campaign, fueled by volunteerism and helping hands from hundreds of volunteers throughout the 69 counties of the Kansas 1st Congressional District.
Folks, I need your help and I need your votes.
As soon as you get me elected to Congress, I will work to undo the harm that Moran has done. I will right these wrongs. I will serve the people, not the powerful.
Thank you for taking the time to read my diary. More information about How Our Current Congress is Harming Families here and more details about my 10-Point Plan to Restore America here.
Please contribute to help us give our government back to its rightful owners, the people, where it belongs.
Friends, I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your support and extra efforts,
John Doll, Democrat for Congress (Kansas First District)