For those of you not on Facebook, you may not have seen the following post, so I will repeat it here:
Juanita Lange August 2 at 12:03pm Reply
Written in response to he following post made by Lesley VanBorssum:
“Listen carefully to the candidates for office, stop in their campaign HQ and see how you are treated by staff and volunteers as the candidate draws people much like them self, see the degree of organization, the energy level, the commitment or lack of it you find. Do everything you possibly can to meet the candidate and take their measure in person. Stop making voter decisions based on TV ads!! Do your homework. Reclaim America.”
I respond with the following:
To anyone who wants to meet Ruth, she does not yet have a campaign office per say.... well actually, she has at least 9 of them but they are at kitchen tables, or in home offices, or in living rooms, spread out across all 6 counties in CD7. These offices are staffed by trusted volunteers who have committed their time, energy, homes, and lives to helping take back our country.
The way these trusted volunteers have chosen to do this is by volunteering for Ruth's campaign and by allowing their name and contact information to be posted in her mailings (which for many of us, that's huge) and by allowing anyone who wants to, to drop by their homes and pick up signs, literature, and bumperstickers to help Ruth's campaign with it's goal of sending Grijalva packing.
You see, early on, Ruth's campaign had to make a choice, use the hard earned money, generously given by her grassroots supporters for office space or use it to purchase as many items as possible to get the word about her campaign and her cause... retiring Grijalva! Ruth chose the later, as she believed it was the wisest use of your donations and that seems to be proving a very wise choice indeed. Her message is getting out! Grijalva has taken notice! He doesn't like Ruth's bumperstickers (she's given out over 6000), he doesn't like her billboards (she has 10 in Yuma), and he doesn't like the fact that she might actually accomplish her goal (taking over his job)! Ruth is making a difference and she gives her supporters all the credit. As she puts it, without my grassroots supporters, my campaign would be nothing!
So yes, as Lesley suggest, don't just base your opinions on radio & TV ads, believe me, they are not always what they seem!!!! Go, meet the candidates, ask them questions, visit & read their website postings, if you like them, volunteer to help, make a donation, whatever it is that you are comfortable with, DO IT, before it's too late!
Note: the best way to keep up with Ruth, is to visit her website and sign up for her email newsletter: http://www.ruth4az.com/index.html She will NOT use your email address for anything else and typically, she sends out an email only about once a week. You can also join her personal FB page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=607036315&ref=ts
and her campaign page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=90894343429&ref=ts
Together we CAN do this!
Juanita Lange
Pima County Campaign Chairman & Volunteer Coordinator
Ruth McClung for Congress 2010
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