Friends and supporters,
We are different.
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney support the
Patriot Act. I will advocate repealing it.
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will keep
waging war in Afghanistan. I will get us out immediately.
Neither Obama or Romney has proposed
actually cutting government spending. I will propose a balanced budget in
2013.
Mitt Romney, in a speech three days ago
at Liberty University, repeated that he is against marriage equality.
Barack Obama now says he supports gay marriage, but says he will leave it up to
the States . I believe the right to marry under the law is a constitutionally-protected
right the Federal government is obligated to defend.
Both Obama and Romney have pledged to
continue the failed War on Drugs – even if it means sending federal marshals to
shut down medical marijuana businesses operating legally under state law.
I have pledged to not only call off the marshals, but legalize marijuana.
On issue after issue, when you look past
the rhetoric, there really isn’t a great deal of daylight between the Democrat
Obama and the Republican Romney.
And America is looking for daylight: The
daylight between the tired business-as-usual that has driven us to the brink of
bankruptcy, kept us in Afghanistan 10 years longer than necessary, and inserted
the government into more and more corners of our privacy and daily lives – and
an America that is living within its means, ending senseless intervention
abroad, and where government protects our liberties rather than destroying
them.
America is longing for a real choice in
November, and with your support, we can tell America that the choice they are
looking for will be on the ballot. Please go to www.garyjohnson2012.com and help deliver that message.
A few days ago, after months of hard
work by many great supporters like you, I received the Libertarian Party’s
nomination for President. Former federal prosecutor and California
Superior Court Judge Jim Gray was nominated for Vice-President, with my
enthusiastic endorsement. With those nominations, we will be on the
ballot in every state as the candidates who truly offer voters something
different: The Governor Gary Johnson difference.
Voters will have a chance to vote
against war. Against the Patriot Act, the NDAA and other assaults on
civil liberties. Against deficits as far as the eye can see. And
vote FOR marriage equality and ending the War on Drugs. And all you have
to do is look at the polls to see that millions of Americans are not just
ready, but anxious to cast those votes.
In short, we have now put ourselves in a
position to make history. To give voters the choice
they REALLY want, not just the ones offered by the two ‘major’ parties.
It is now up to us to capitalize on the
incredible, historic opportunity our hard work has created.
In the few short days since becoming an
official nominee for President, I have appeared on Cavuto, CNN, Newsweek/Daily Beast, C-SPAN and a host of radio talk shows across the
nation. That news coverage certainly helps, but you know as well as I
that we cannot depend on the media elite to get our message out – and let
frustrated voters know that there will be a real choice in November.
A choice that reflects their own views of liberty: Freedom from a government
that does too much and spends too much.
We cannot wait for someone else, like
the news media, to carry our message. We have to
do it ourselves, and that, my friends, requires money. Real money.
Right now, our campaign is identifying states, media markets, available voter
lists and potential coalitions where we can get the most ‘bang for our
buck’. But none of that will matter without your financial support.
We have come an amazingly long way on
very little funding. The fact that I am already earning 6-9% in
national polls, without buying a penny of TV or radio advertising, is nothing
short of remarkable. And we owe much of that to supporters like you.
But now the real work begins. We
have to reach voters in key states, and we have to reach them directly – not
through the whims and biases of the news media. In short, we have to buy
it. Advertising, direct mail, social media tools. And we have to
step up our grass-roots efforts. All of those require funds, no matter
how frugal and efficient we are.
The nomination and the wake-up call it
has given the tired two-party establishment have given us momentum. But
without the resources to seize that momentum, it will be forgotten in the wake
of the next big news story. Your contribution today will provide those resources.
Please go to www.garyjohnson2012.com and help make absolutely certain
that voters know that liberty, freedom, and a real choice are on the ballot.
Thanks for your friendship and your
support. We can do this!
Governor
Gary Johnson
P.S. Now that the Libertarian
Party nomination is secured, we must mount a truly national campaign.
Help us reach voters in your state and all across the nation by sending your
contribution. Go to www.garyjohnson2012.com.
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