Walking in the District / 18,168 doors thus far

I was told today that paid walkers from (THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT) walking and handing out Benefield fliers. According to one of the paid walkers they are given $10 per hour by the neighoborhood project, which if you don't know is an ACORN style group. If you encounter one of these walkers please be pleasant and let them go on about their business. They do not have any of the knowledge about the race nor do they care, from what I have been told. They are only trying to make a living influencing our race in our town. We must get our neighbors out and active. It is time to stand up and be counted. We cannot let people who have no interest in our community infuencing our races. Thank you for your concern and support.

This is not It is Sunday August 15th. We have been walking every weekend, and many days during the week since mid April. I have been fortunate in that I have had many volunteers who have given much of their time to walk with us. Yesterday before we began to canvas one of the last two precincts in the district, I looked around and realized that we only had 5 people total to walk. I kind of sinckered to myself. Only, ONly, ONLY. We had four volunteers and Myself to walk. That is awsome. There are Candidates out there who have been lucky to have two people walking. We have been fortunate that we have had at minimum five people walking on a weekend. We even had two more show up two hours into the day. Seven people walking, to some races would have been a miracle. So, thank you to all who have been devoted to making this campaign a successful one. We are in the home stretch now and just about finished with our first pass through the precincts. This is quite an accomplishment which I couldn't have done quite as well at without the help of my number one volunteer and Campaign Manager Walt Blankenship. As we wound up the walking last evening or afternoon, Walt and David said we only need 42 more homes to get to 18,000. I had to leave for a charity softball tournament that I participate in every year. Because I don't like to have people walking without me, we saved those 42 homes for Sunday or today.

I have heard from many people at their doors, that they get upset when they find people who are paid to walk or people who are walking a district without the candidate. I have been given my competitors fliers at doors and been told that since I, the candidate, was actually out walking, then I would have their vote. The best story for the past couple of weeks was from one man who told me to wait at the door. He went back inside his home, this took four or five minutes. When he returned, he said that I could have her flier and I would have his vote. I said,"oh you are a republican then" he said no, he has been a Democrat his entire life, but, since I was at his door and was interested in what concerned him, that he would be voting for me. This says volumes about what the public is feeling. Not just in my race but in all of them. We are tired of feeling like the electors, and not constituents. We have been the means for people to get into government, but, once there, they don't care or at least that is the feeling we get. It is not that Americans or more specifically Coloradans want to be taken care of, it is that we want to know the government is listening, and responding accordingly. We have a representative republic. It is time that our Representatives and other officials understand that. I have heard this message or a variation of it on atleast 4,000 doorsteps. Now is our time to create a new Majority that believes in the Constitution and its authority, that adhears to the laws and rules set forth by our forefathers, and that listenes to the constituency.

We have the backing of the community, the party, and more importantly the people who I strive to represent. We are Marching to November and we are doing it with Passion.