“Your parties have betrayed you. Your parties have failed you. Your parties have let you down. Your parties aren’t even here!!” – from my closing statement last night
Yesterday I was kindly hosted by the local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a group of women educators, at Cedar Crest College in a crowded room. As Mr. Callahan first accepted, then canceled last-minute, and Mr. Dent refused their invitation, I immediately declared myself the winner by TKO and the debate instead became an informal forum like the campaign’s “Towne halls” offered to the public over the past year.
While both Mr. Callahan and Mr. Dent may publicly laud debate and democratic elections, the truth is that they wish to escape to November 2nd with as little scrutiny from the people as possible. Mr. Dent had the first debate cut from 2 hours to 1 hour. These Republocrat career politicians are living on taxpayer money, without new ideas of their own, and are dished out political welfare simply due to the ‘D’ or ‘R’ next to their names.
Citizens should question Republocrat career politicians who do not deign to explain themselves to those they wish to serve. There is no higher responsibility of a candidate than to listen to the public and explain themselves. I challenge both men to set aside an entire weekend afternoon in October and answer questions from the public in a neutral forum.
Ironically, only my campaign has been excluded from a major debate sponsored by the Morning Call, PBS-39, and the Chamber of Commerce. After reading the Morning Call’s explanation that TV time was limited, this week I requested the opportunity to answer the questions to the audience after cameras clicked off, and this request was denied as “disruptive.” While I respect an organization’s ability to invite or not invite candidates to their events, political expression should be preserved by the media, not denied, especially in times of political economic suppression.
Supporters are encouraged to write – or resend – a letter to the editor to the Morning Call or Express-Times or share their opinion with the Morning Call debate organizers below, and inform them I was the only candidate to show up at the last debate. I am the only candidate who has pledged to balance the budget, stop the endless wars and endless debt, plus has the ideas that will work to solve the unemployment problem. If you would like a yard sign, please leave your name, address, and phone number here.
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I extend an open invitation to groups in the community to allow me to speak and listen to your group. Footage from the event is below, and the remaining debate schedule is here – next event is October 4th.
Introduction and Open Office Idea (Plank)
On Personal Liberties – for a more in-depth explanation, see “Philosophy of Liberty“
On Health Care, part 1 and part 2. See also my articles “Healthcare Solutions” and “Healthcare Plank“ After reviewing the footage, I found I failed to adequately define a cartel, so “CARTEL – n. a combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices (per Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary)”
On the dollar. Sound Money and Jobs Plank, Federal Reserve Plank
On my future plans and campaign donations.
Last week I appeared on the Gunther Show, where we had a spirited discussion on the War on Terror. (Iraq War plank) (Afghanistan War plank)
I was shocked to hear the response from the one lady about health care. She thinks it’s better to be insured than to have a job. So it’s better for me to be dirt-poor, out of house and home, no food to eat, but life is good because I’m insured?!
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Thank you Jake!
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Jake, The question and answer session was great! My husband and I really enjoyed it. It was like a breath of fresh air. I hope to attend another one in the near future.
Your signs are in my front yard and my friends and family are hearing about you. I facebook your websites at least once a day, lol. I am doing everything I can to get your name out there. I believe in you. Keep up the good work!
Just stick to the Constitution. Congress must declare war. Iraq did not attack us. Saddam was a bad man, but the world is full of bad men. What if China decides that the leader of Mongolio is a bad man. Can they just follow our example and invade Mongogolio?
Iraq has done us no harm, neither has Iran. Is Saddam worth one trillion dollars, 50,000 US casualties and 600,000 Iraqi casualties? Of course not.
These wars are about oil and the Middle-East. The Constitution does not call upon us to play policeman of the world, however, noble that might sound.
Bin Laden said he attacked New York because of our military bases in Saudi Arabia. That’s blowback. He gave us the reason. Too bad if they don’t like it. Invading their countries creates more hatred and drives more radicals into the arms of terrorists. This is no way to fight terrorism.
The radio presenter said Muslims want to irradicate Christianity. What has that got to do with us? Separation of church and state. When a so-called Christian nation invades a Muslim nation it just stirs up more hatred for generations to come.
WMDs were not found. Good gracious, is he serious? Suppose we did, why did we not come home? What’s the idea with us spending $500 billion of taxpayers’ money (or borrowed from China) on Iraq and Afghanistan’s infrastructure? How stupid are our leaders and their brain-dead followers?