Why I Support Ed Martin for Congress
Russ Carnahan was elected to represent my district after living here somewhere south of four years. While certainly a longer tenure than Hillary’s few months before becoming New York’s senator, it still seems odious that he came here to first become a Missouri House representative, and then landed the Federal job after Dick Gephardt retired.
I would pretty much vote for a ham sandwich rather than be represented by a carpet-bagger. Worse, Carnahan proved to be to the left of even Dick Gephardt. He voted for TARP, Porkulus, and Cap and Trade. He’s all for Obamacare. It has been as if San Francisco has two elected representatives.
Over the years, the GOP has fielded candidates, each slowly inching closer to the critical 51% mark to unseat the incumbent. Russ won in 2008 with a surprisingly narrow 53%. Had he not been buoyed by President Obama’s historic election, William Federer may have been our Representative. God bless Bill, he is sitting this election out.
I had lunch with Ed Martin the other day. He’s an attorney who will run against Carnahan in 2010.
Ed is no ham sandwich.
I was expecting a certain amount of oily, weaselly reserve. Ed is an attorney. I expected a man who talked like he was paid by the word.
What I found was great lunch company. Ed is very bright and gregarious, laughs easily and can eat food spicy enough to take the paint off a battleship. Ed was open and transparent with his life and we quickly found things in our lives that overlapped beyond just kids. In about five minutes I was having an extraordinarily good time.
Ed is passionate about many things, but politics is not in the top five. His faith, family, friends, home state and nation are his top priorities. Ed is in politics to serve those interests, not the other way around. We share ideas about freedom and the proper role of government. I learned that we are shocked and appalled by the same things and want to defend aggressively our precious liberty. Ed is a kindred spirit.
What I found most impressive about Ed isn’t his savvy, which is substantial, or his passion which is great. Ed is at his core a happy warrior. The growling, cynical misfits of action movies are not the best soldiers in a fight. It is instead those who labor for a purpose greater than themselves, who trust that Providence judges the heart, not the score. Ed exudes that delight in serving in these trying times, and that I found the most impressive trait of all.
Ed is not friends with billionaire-supported political action committees. I don’t think he is on the East Coast Republican’s Christmas Card list. His success will be a combination of a grassroots groundswell and convincing conservative PACs that he is a serious threat to Carnahan.
So, good friends, I ask that if you can, please throw your support behind Ed Martin. I plan to help him out both as a volunteer and with my financial resources. Ideally Ed would have several hundred donors from all zip codes in Missouri’s 3rd district. A $5.00 donation from thousands is so much better than thousands from five.
The people are cheesed off. I think a realignment is in the making. The political Left has been playing to defeat us. I think we are over indulging them and ourselves and start playing to win as well. Victory is to be had if only we ride to the sound of the guns.
Below please find a link to Ed’s website. If you respond to me with good candidates in your district, I will Twitter and blog on them too.
Thank You for your Kind Attention
Tim McNabb
