I am a Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate seat slated for a voting date of November 5, 2002. I am a common man. I believe that common men and women should be elected to Federal office, serve one term, and then come home to be common men and women once again. I don’t believe America’s interest is best served by career politicians and self serving lawyers who ruin our country and interpret the Constitution and the Bill of Rights anyway they like, to bend the will of the people.

Our country is on the brink of disaster: the greatest danger Americans have ever faced. What is that danger? Our forefathers warned us, over and over, of the danger from within. The danger of tyranny, imposed by our own government.

An evil force controls our government; that is, the two major parties that have controlled our government for 150 years, and the media that perpetuate this corruption permeating our society. Like cancer, they are spoiling our America!

I am calling out today for Americans to stand up and take their country back. The First American Revolution took seven years to secure the freedom of the colonies. I’m calling out to America’s common men and women -- people who have the courage to look at our country, really look at it, and say out loud: “We’re sick and we’re tired and we’re not going to take it any more!”

It felt good to just think it, didn’t it? I’m not going to stand up here and list off all the things that aren’t right with this country. We all know what they are. They are too numerous to list. We would be here for a week. We are all forced to work ourselves into the ground to pay for the perpetuation of this socialist police State.

The Second American Revolution starts right here, right now. Over the next seven years let’s throw the bums out. Every one of them! Send a Civil Libertarian to Washington for every seat in the Congress, and the Senate, and the Oval Office.

You can start right here by sending this Libertarian to the U.S. Senate. I don’t know their rules. I won’t play their games. I don’t know about dealing under the table. I’m not an elitist. I don’t think that anybody owes me anything. I don’t know how to be an aristocrat. We supposedly got rid of that with the First American Revolution.

I do know how to uphold the Constitution.

One Libertarian at the Federal level will start a revolution in our government not seen since 1776. In Colorado the unaffiliated, the unregistered, the Libertarians and the disgusted ex-Democrats and ex-Republicans outnumber all the Democrats and Republicans combined. All we have to do is unite under a Civil Libertarian banner and vote them out. No guns, no war, and certainly not the 10 million dollars the Democrats and Republicans will spend to try and steal one more election from the people.

You, the people of Colorado, tell me you want change.

This is my mission. I’m not doing this for other Libertarians. I’m not doing this for you. I’m doing this for myself. For my wife, my kids, their kids, and me. Can you do any less for your family, and for yourself? Think about that!

Do you want your own children and grandchildren to live in a country inspired by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights – but that has a government full of people in power who continue to do whatever the hell they want to by ignoring those three documents?

If you do, then keep voting Democrat or Republican. It really doesn’t matter. Either way is a vote for the status quo. Is that what you want for America?

In Minnesota a common man named Jesse Ventura was supposed to get 5% of the vote for Governor. He won with 37% of the vote in 1998, and registered a job-approval rating of 71% in January of this year, 2 years after his election. The man is a Civil Libertarian. He won as an Independent by telling it like it is and running a grassroots campaign. He has gained the support of Minnesotans by sticking to his principles, and telling it like it is even after his election.

In Minnesota, the Democrats and Republicans failed and were dumped unceremoniously on their butts back in the street, where they belong. They are failures. Failures do not deserve an American’s support.

Folks, let’s get back to that common man issue. Common men who start with nothing and then through hard work build something – anything in this world today – are not failures. I’ve been on my own roughly since age 15. I joined the Army at 17, bought my first home at 18, was married and had my first child at 18, served my country in the Army till 20, started my first company at 20. I had 2 more kids, a divorce at 15 years of marriage, tried again and have been remarried for twelve years now. Sometimes happily, sometimes not. I love my wife, my kids, my grandkids, and my parents. Sometimes my ex-wife and her parents. I’m not perfect. I’m certainly not a role model for anyone. I’m obstinate. I talk way too much about our country and how we can regain our freedom. I get angry. Sometimes I’m hard. People tell me I’m too tough, that my expectations of people are too high, that I’m not politically correct, that I push too hard. I never quit when I know I’m right. I’ve been a success in business for 27 years.

Sounds like someone we need to go to war in Washington against a government that lies, cheats and steals from the people it is supposed to protect, doesn’t it?

Lest you think I’m a total jerk, I’ve also been told I can be charming when I want to. I can grasp a problem and come up with the proper course of action to correct that problem. I can sell my ideas to people. I can work faster and more efficiently than most. I can organize, strategize, and then take action with the best of them. Once in a while I even laugh and have fun. I work hard, and I play hard.

I want a life where personal responsibility issues get to be decided by me. That’s right – imagine that! A life where the government doesn’t interfere with me when I don’t hurt anyone else.

If I attain that for myself, everybody else does too. What a concept! You might think I’m 225 years past my time. Had I been alive 225 years ago I would have been one of those rabble rouser Patriots who went against the grain and didn’t agree with 1/3 of the population that was Tory, and loyal to the King of England. I would have gone against the grain of another 1/3 of the population that was comfortable, and afraid of losing what they had. That’s right, only 1/3 more of the population left – the Patriots – willing to fight for liberty, independence and a life free of a demoralizing tyranny. Sound familiar?

The survival of the rights and liberties of the people depends on the spread of wisdom, knowledge, and virtue among all the people, the common people, of whom I, the son of a schoolteacher and a businessman, am one.

I’m proud of my personal heritage. I’m proud of our country’s heritage. I will fight to regain our liberty and return our country to Constitutional principles. I’m a simple man, a common man with simple ideas – the Civil Libertarian ideas that made this country the greatest country on earth. I want my country back.

Vote for me. Vote for Libertarians. Your country needs you right now and for the next seven years -- for America’s Second Revolution.

Thank you.