“Good for Ms. Neil for filing as an independent write-in candidate in this Fall’s general election for Montana’s Eastern Congressional District’s Representative. Clearly she feels strongly that Democrat voters should not have nominated me of the four of us running in the Primary. I get it but do not equate raising and spending lots of other people’s money to ‘campaigning” for public policies important to Montanans.
In 2002 after I got home from the Pentagon, having worked as Deputy Crisis Action Team Chief for Operation Enduring Freedom in the National Military Command Center, I already knew plans were afoot for a shooting war with Iraq. Like Ms. Neill I opted to file as an Independent to warn Montanans about the bad idea about to unfold, as it did in 2003. Without finding the nuclear weapons given as the excuse for war, 4,431 American servicemen and women lost their lives, and more than 31,000 were wounded in auction. Nearly 100,000 civilians died.
Though my efforts were ignored, I’ll never regret making them. Ms Neil’s entry into the eastern district race now means that a number of votes equal to what she gets plus the 30,000 open-minded Republicans I’ve been steadily trying to physically meet, will be necessary for me to win and send a big message to the political party elites that actual votes by people willing to get off the couch, not huge sums of money for advertising to the brainwash the passive are “free speech.”
The official website for my campaign is: johnbdriscoll.blogspot.com”.
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