Thank You Note from Todd Courser
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
To all who have supported me by helping with money, signs, prayers, your votes and working to bring this election about, and to all those in my life who have been a part of my education and my business success, I give you all a special thank you and God bless you! My heart has been filled with joy from the wonderful people who have supported and helped me through every step of my life, both my successes and failures.
It has been a great experience and the most demanding thing I have ever been involved in. I am humbled by those who have played a part in my life at various stages, who have come back to assist and to promote me forward through this election. Some of the most humbling are those people who are liberal and Democrat who have stepped up to support me in spite of our differences. I hope I am as generous with my own position in life to help those who are fighting to make this world a better place.
I am from Lapeer County. This place is a huge part of who I am. Even as I have watched the world turned upside down, I have had no desire to leave. My desire is to deal with the problems we have, to start the process of rebuilding our great state! We have a lot of work to do!
I didn’t realize when I stepped into running the last election cycle; it was just a prelude to this campaign. In my heart I am distressed by the two sided politics of my own Republican Party and their willingness to speak about liberty and freedom while receiving help from those who are against such things. I was asked how I would convey this fact to the public. I said I would do it from the front of the room. I really think the idea of just saying it is better for everyone, to let the public know why our Party on many occasions has failed to be the Party of liberty and freedom. We have so much special interest money now showering us with mail for their preferred establishment candidate that we lose track of what is really being done to sell us on their choice – they WANT the status quo to remain and will spend hundreds of thousands to see that this is the case. I believe we should no longer have politicians leading where leaders are required. We need those who serve, not for themselves, but for the people, to be the protector of the public purse and the protector of the rights and freedoms that we have been entrusted with by God.
There is now only a few days left. As we get closer to the finish line, I am thankful for the help which seems to multiply every day. My hope and prayer is to see our state and our country renewed back to Christ and its prosperity restored through fiscal discipline. To see that happen, we will have to be willing to spend less and sacrifice parts of our welfare or entitlement state that has crept into all of our lives. I have said, if you are happy with where we are as a state and a Republican Party, then vote for either of the men who are running against me. A vote for me is a vote to turn the Republican Party and our state to the right and toward liberty and freedom! I want a government that does less for me and reaches less into my back pocket. We, as a people, have regulated and overspent ourselves to bankruptcy and have destroyed our desire to fight and sacrifice to be more and reach for more. There are now far too many in the wagon for the rest of us to pull. Ben Franklin said – if you want to have less poverty then make people uncomfortable in their poverty. We just don’t think that way anymore – it’s all minimum wage, welfare, paid for cell phones, utilities paid for, rent paid for, food paid for, free health care, and my favorite, tax refunds where no tax was ever paid in! We really can’t afford it anymore.
As many of you know I am committed absolutely to the idea that our children need to be taught about the heritage of the country. The decision of how children should be educated needs to rest with parents not with the government or the teachers union. The free markets are what will restore our education quality and global competitiveness.
Finally, the MBT, which is a tax put in place by Democrats and the Rhino Republicans in our state, destroyed our manufacturing. It is the perfect tax if you intend to destroy a manufacturing economy and they apparently did. Many don’t understand why the Republicans signed on to this killer. The reason they did, is the public sector unions were ready to pull their support for the Rhinos they had been quietly supporting with money and recommendations all along the way, so they tripped over themselves to sign it and save their own positions at the expense of the people of this state.
All of us must continue to be active in the fight to preserve the country and the ideas of the Founding Fathers.
May God bless you all!
Todd A. Courser Candidate for Michigan Senate 2010
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