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USAF Vet Dan
05-22-2008, 01:34 PM
The Druck for Congress campaign urgently needs your help!

As the letter below states, Illinois' 14th CD is wide open for a Libertarian victory given the fact that this historically conservative district has, for the first time in decades, elected a socialist Democrat to temporarily fill Denny Hastert's old seat. The Republican candidate who lost the special election lost because he is a Bush Republican and has a bad history with the voters. In November, these two will, once again, be running for this office. In my travels around the district, I have talked to many voters. So many of them have told me that they won't vote for either RepubliCrat candidate because they are "so awful". I truly believe we have a great chance for victory! However, we must clear the first hurdle - ballot access.

The Draconian ballot access laws in Illinois requires that I, as a Libertarian candidate, must obtain 11,000 petition signatures (15,000 to be "challenge proof"). My RepubliCrat opponents only need about 800. We have only one month before the filing deadline. To put this into perspective, 11,000 signatures is equal to more than 11% of the total number of 14th CD voters who voted last Super Tuesday. If it takes 10 minutes to get one signature, it will take 2,500 man hours to reach our goal. Volunteers from three local Ron Paul Meetup Groups and the Libertarian party have already obtained about 4,000 signatures but, in order to meet the deadline, we have no option but to hire professional petitioners.

I, like many of you, have already reached down deep to financially support Ron Paul and other "Ron Paul candidates"... and I'm not a millionaire like my RepubliCrat opponents. But considering the severity of the crises our nation currently faces, I have decided to match, dollar for dollar, donations up to $10,000.

It will take a minimum of $15,000 to secure the signatures we need. To ensure that there is enough time, we need to raise $7,500 by the end of Memorial Day (I'll put in the other $7,500).

Donations can be made at www.TimeForDan.com (http://www.timefordan.com). Won't you please consider helping us? All donations, no matter how small, will help greatly and will be most appreciated.

In pursuit of liberty,

Dan Druck


Dear freedom lover,

It’s time.

There is a reawakening in America. The Ron Paul revolution has started it. And we’re taking it to the next level.

It’s time. My name is Dan Druck. I am a Libertarian Ron Paul supporter running for Congress in the 14th District in Illinois.

Let me set the stage for this unique opportunity. Former Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert, recently resigned as Congressman of my district. A special election was held to fill the vacancy. The Republican candidate, Jim Oberweis, a four-time loser, became the nominee by beating out true conservative, State Senator Chris Lauzen in the Republican primary by using very dirty campaign tactics and lies about Lauzen and his record. This turned off many of Lauzen’s Republican supporters. Many of them sat out of the special election to replace Hastert. That special election brought more negative campaigning by Oberweis. Millions of dollars were spent by the candidates for the special election. Big spending Democrat, Bill Foster, won the special election despite the fact that this district is traditionally very heavily Republican.

Foster wants to implement socialized medicine as well as other big-spending boondoggles. This is not an agenda that will fly in the 14th Congressional District. Yet many constituents are turned off by the heavy handed tactics of Oberweis and his neo-conservative pro war agenda. Oberweis is not well-liked in this district. Now Oberweis and Foster are the RepubliCrat nominees in the general election in November. Oberweis, for the reasons stated above can not win.

Meanwhile, Congressman Ron Paul has reignited the flame of freedom. Citizens from all walks of life are rallying to the cause of freedom. Young people are especially energized by the promise of freedom that Dr. Paul has sparked.

It’s time I stepped up to the plate in this fight for Constitutional principles, in this fight for freedom. So that is what I am doing. I am not a well known politician. If fact, I am not a politician at all. I am a concerned citizen who has stepped up to the plate because enough is enough. I am small businessman, married with three children and a decorated veteran. I hold a bachelor of architecture degree and own a national business and facility development firm with 70 employees. I am ready to become a citizen legislator as our founding fathers intended, do my part to restore Constitutional freedoms and law to this country, and then go back to private life and enjoy the fruits of eternal vigilance.

It is time. It’s time to bring true Constitutional principles back to Congress. It’s time to restore freedom to America. It’s time to bring our troops home from Iraq and from every other country in the world, to protect our country, not to act as the policeman of the world backing an Unconstitutional agenda of empire. (Oberweis wants to keep the war going.)

It’s time to lift the economic burdens that rampant regulation and the stifling income tax imposes on American citizens. It’s time to lift the heavy hand of government surveillance that has taken away our personal rights through the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and other Unconstitutional encroachments on liberty. It’s time to release the creative genius that once was America to solve the crisis of ever-rising energy costs.

It’s time to restore honest, Constitutional money to our monetary system.

Buoyed by Congressman Paul’s great success at rejuvenating the fight for freedom, it’s time for Libertarians to join Dr. Paul in Congress. This time, constituents of the 14th District will have a real choice in November, a choice for peace abroad and prosperity at home, Libertarian Dan Druck.

So now is the time. This really is an historic opportunity. We can do it. We can change history. We can be the change that is sorely needed in this country. But I urgently need your help. You see, the corrupt power party has decided that their so-called democracy is in name only. They’ve rigged the deck so that when someone like me challenges their status quo, they make it really difficult. To get on the ballot for the Congressional office for which I am running, the Democrats and Republicans need to get only 800 signatures or so. On the other hand, we will need to acquire about 15,000 signatures to assure ballot status. Maybe we need Jimmy Carter to come to Illinois to monitor our elections to make sure our election process is fair!

Nonetheless, we are going to do it. We will get on the ballot, but only with your help. We have one month to obtain these signatures. We do have Libertarian volunteers and Ron Paul activists working the field getting signatures, but the volunteer effort will not be enough. We need to hire paid petitioners to get this done. We need to raise about $15,000 very quickly in order to have the money to pay the petitioners. To help in this effort, I am offering to match, dollar for dollar, donations up to $10,000. I’m not a millionaire like Oberweis and Foster, so this isn’t "pocket change" for me. But there is just too much at stake. If we get on the ballot, we have a very real chance to win this race.

Please help us in this historic effort. Please help now. It is time. It is time for Dan. Please go to www.TimeForDan.com (http://www.TimeForDan.com) and contribute. We need to know by Memorial Day whether or not we will have the funds to run this petition effort.

Yours for freedom,

Dan Druck, Libertarian candidate for Congress

Ken Prazak, Campaign Manager