This campaign is about taking back our government, taking it back from those who create divisionary and polarizing politics instead of finding real solutions to the shared challenges that face us all.

It's about the realization that we can no longer afford to send off representatives to congress while their campaigns are so heavily funded by special interests and corporations that they are unable to provide meaningful legislation to all the working people who call the second district their home.

It's about the creation of economic incentives to raise the economic boats of all people, not just those who can afford access. It's about economic growth that preserves the history and character of this region, not the further Los Angelization of our district just to profit developers and land speculators.

This campaign is about adding a needed voice of reason to the House of Representatives.

This campaign is a vote to challenge current leadership that has squandered the good will of world opinion in exchange for a war based upon personal plunder masquerading as patriotism.

It's about the unwillingness to yield to the mongrels of fear who seek to divide instead of seeking new paths to unite.

This campaign refuses to accept that sound environmental and economic policy are mutually exclusive, or that economic growth can occur only at the expense of our most vulnerable.

This campaign refuses to accept a paradigm where families are faced with a decision to pay either their mortgage or their health care premiums. Universal healthcare may not be a human right, but it is a hallmark of every civilized society and one which we are late to enjoy.

It's about the repeal of the patriot act and shifting the war on American rights and freedoms to the true culprits of 911.

It's about the development and creation of sustainable domestic energy resources rather than relying those which now make it necessary for us to go to to war to secure them.

This campaign is about the reliance on youth, not as a time of life, but a quality of mind. Of courage over temerity, of action over inaction, of the love of adventure over the comfort of the status quo.

In short, this campaign is about a future based on idealism and hope and courage and faith. Together, we can build it.