We heard the call to action several times over the past few weeks. I give it again as we need to do all we can to get Jim Martin into the U.S. Senate.
I don't want to hear why we will not win this race. I want you to help Jim Martin win this race.
From the words of my good friend Yoda
Do or do not. There is no Try.
You might think Martin would be running away from Obama being in the South. But this is not Ronnie Musgrove or Bruce Lunsford in a runoff. This is Jim Martin.. Watch the video and read below as he has nothing but praise for President Obama.
Excerpt from Martin's press conference this morning. Note his strong praise for President Obama. I believe Jim Martin would be a great ally for President Obama in the Senate.
Martin's statement in full from his website
We are in a runoff. And the runoff race begins right now.
Yesterday was an historic day in American history. Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.
I was struck by what he said last night.
He said, "For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education. There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair."
Those words of Barack Obama's are why this runoff campaign is so important.
Those remarks will guide me over the next four weeks. We're going to win on December second, because this race is going to be about helping President-elect Barack Obama get our economy back on track and making the economy work for the middle class again.
America has elected Barack Obama President, and I say now is the time for all of us to help him succeed. Let's take some time off from partisan politics, we face the biggest challenges of the past 60 years now, let's work together to solve them.
I think that starts with helping Barack Obama succeed, not undercutting him for partisan advantage or to protect special interests. And that's the difference in this runoff election. I will do everything I can to help Barack Obama change Washington and get the economy moving again.
That starts with standing up for the middle class taxpayers who are bearing the brunt of the economic crisis and telling them the truth about what is happening. Saxby Chambliss has not. He has voted for the special interests against Georgia tax payers and will not admit his own error in creating this financial crisis that we face.
I will fight to end the abuses in the bailout. Saxby has not even admitted that they exist and will not end them. I will tell you the truth. He has not.
I don't think any company receiving federal bailout money should be allowed to pay one penny in dividends, bonuses, salary increases for executives, stock buy-backs ... nothing, until the taxpayers are fully repaid. And I'm going to push for that legislation starting on my first day in the Senate.
I'm going to help Barack Obama cut taxes for the middle class, too.
I'm going to help Barack Obama get rid of tax breaks for companies sending our jobs overseas, and instead use that money to help create jobs right here in Georgia and all across America. Saxby disagrees; he says what's good for multinational companies is good for our economy. But then again, Saxby has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from those very companies offshoring and outsourcing.
As a Vietnam Veteran I know what it is like to serve in a war, to leave your family behind, to sacrifice for our country. Saxby does not. And I'm going to help Barack Obama bring a responsible end to the war in Iraq so that we can bring our valiant service men and women home to their families and out of harms way and so that we can stop spending 10 billion a month in a country that enjoys an eighty billion dollar surplus from selling us oil at record prices. We need that money here at home.
So, this isn't going to be a difficult race for anybody to figure out. I'm going to do everything I can to help Barack Obama get off to a fast start and Saxby Chambliss has promised to do everything he can to stop Barack Obama from succeeding.
I certainly don't agree with Barack Obama on everything. I'm going to be an independent voice for Georgia. But we need to get back to the tradition of ending the campaign on Election Day and going to work together to do what's right for our country.
There is a lot of silver lining in this runoff. We knew that this would be our best chance of defeating Saxby Shameless. It's going to take money to win this race.
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