Ronnie Earle for Lieutenant GovernorDear Friend,
Deciding to run for Lieutenant Governor of Texas was not easy. But I found it hard to sleep at night thinking about how far things have gotten off track here in Texas. I want a shot at making things right for regular Texans.
I'm going to need your help. Please come to my campaign web site and get involved.
For sixteen years in Texas we've had one party rule and it's hard to imagine how anyone could say with a straight face that the officials currently in power have made things better for ordinary hard-working Texans.
It's easy to change the party in power, but the hard reality is that if we're not vigilant, the same shadow party -- government by and for the favored few -- will just continue to run things their way and keep making out better and better as they make things worse for everybody else.
Corruption is like a relay race and the baton is easily passed from one political party to the next if both parties are not vigilant about policing their own ranks.
There are powerful forces that have been working hard over the past decade and a half trying to turn Texas into a third-world country. It is not enough that they enrich themselves at the expense of regular Texans; they want to reserve the top for themselves, with the rest of us struggling at the bottom.
The only thing higher than the luxurious private sky-boxes at our State college football stadiums are the tuitions at our state colleges. Families have been running on treadmills for years, running faster and faster but never getting ahead and now it's becoming too expensive for them to educate their children.
The American Dream has always been a better life for our children, and that has included a college education. Now that dream is being betrayed.
And we've got a Governor who apparently never wants to leave his job even as he blocks unemployment benefits from millions of hard-working Texans who lost their jobs when Wall Street and Washington ran off with the economy.
And the Lieutenant Governor, traditionally the most powerful elected official in the state, for all the difference he's made for ordinary Texans the office might as well have been left vacant all these years. And the longer Texas goes with a State government that does nothing for ordinary people and everything for the powerful, the more relentlessly the federal government encroaches on the powers and prerogatives of the state.
It's time for Texans to take back our state government.
That's why I'm running for Lieutenant Governor.
Please come to my campaign web site and get involved.
http://www.ronnieearle.com/Thank you,
Ronnie Earle
Thank you for stepping up to run Ronnie!
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Hey lets get this to the greatest page so other Texas Democrats can see this too.
Sonia
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