[IMC-Editorial] A Personal Note from Dennis Kucinich (please forward widely)

[The Sacred Earth Society]

FROM DENNIS KUCINICH

Dear Friends:
With the June 30th second quarter fundraising deadline approaching, I need 
your help. My name is Dennis Kucinich, which is spelled www.kucinich.us

For four months, I have been campaigning for President coast-to-coast. As 
journalists have reported, we are attracting the largest crowds, and the 
biggest audience responses. We have had 1,000-plus gatherings in Wisconsin, 
New Mexico, Northern and Southern California. Grassroots activists are 
flocking to our campaign

In four months, we have built an insurgent campaign to challenge not only 
the Bush Administration and its climate of fear, but to shake the Democratic 
Party from its climate of fear.

On the campaign trail, I continue to question this Administration's fraudulent 
war in Iraq and a reckless foreign policy that isolates our country more than 
the terrorists who seek to attack us. I am the candidate calling for cuts in 
a wasteful Pentagon budget that rivals the military spending of all other 
countries in the world combined.

I propose not piecemeal, ineffective changes to our corporatized and 
crisis-ridden health care system, but a rational system of universal, 
single-payer national health insurance. Like other industrialized countries, 
we can afford that -- as well as quality education, environmental cleanup 
emphasizing clean energy, and secure retirement with the Social Security 
retirement age returned to 65.

It's all affordable, but only if we end corporate welfare, challenge 
Pentagon spending that's more fit for empire than defense, and reverse 
the Administration's tax breaks for the wealthy -- all of them, not just 
some.

On the campaign trail, I am meeting union workers, family farmers and 
environmentalists who support my pledge to withdraw from NAFTA and the 
WTO -- trade deals that benefit multinational corporations, not the public 
or planetary health.

I am getting support from civil libertarians for my vow to repeal the 
misnamed "Patriot Act," which I proudly voted against in Congress.

Only a frontal challenge to this Administration's policies, coupled with 
a serious alternative program, can defeat George Bush in 2004. Half-way 
challenges, where Democrats concede to him on war and defense policy, will 
lead to disaster -- like they did in November 2002.

I'm waging a campaign that is a total challenge to this Administration's 
reckless policies at home and abroad. The only thing limiting our campaign 
is money.

If you agree with me on the issues, take a leap of faith and make a donation. 
Get your friends to donate. Spread this email far and wide across the Internet.

It's easy to donate https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php -- and our campaign 
has already qualified for federal matching funds. Your donation of $50 means 
$100 to my campaign -- because all contributions up to $250 are matched. Of 
course, if you can give more than $250, please do.

Your donation helps me amplify my message to new voters, young voters, 
disgruntled voters and 3rd-party voters. It helps us broaden the Democratic 
Party in a progressive direction.

I hope to see you on the campaign trail. I'm Dennis Kucinich... you know how 
to spell it.

Sincerely,
Dennis

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PS from Kucinich team.
If you are not already a MoveOn.org member, please register BEFORE Tuesday, 
June 24th at http://www.moveon.org/pac/reg/ in order to vote for Dennis online 
in the massive MoveOn Primary. It's quick and easy. A strong showing will mean 
a major influx of funds and volunteers to our campaign.








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