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OUR SENIORS DESERVE:

• End to Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Red Tape
  
• Secure Future Social Security & Medicare Funding
  
• A Medicare that Bargains with Big Drug Firms

OUR TROOPS AND VETS DESERVE:

• An End to Veterans’ Housing Shortages
  
• A National Guard that Guards our Nation, Not Iraq
  
• Reserves who are Reserves, Not Iraq Bomber Targets

ALL AMERICANS DESERVE:

• An Orderly Timetable to Re-Deploy Our Troops:


• Stay the Course is Not Policy, it’s LACK of one!


• End the Unnecessary Iraq War that Creates Terrorists


• Government that Listens, Cares, and Doesn’t Pander


• Return Honesty, Competence, Ethics to Government


• Competent Management of Government Programs


• Tax Cuts to Innovative Business, not to GOP-Cronies

MICA AND BUSH LEADERSHIP FAILURES

• Failure to Respond in Time to Hurricane Katrina
• Taxes Slashed on Wealthiest during Wartime
• Mica’s House Turned Surpluses to Record Deficit
• $320 Billion for Iraq, but Programs Cut at Home
• Cuts Force States and Counties to Hike Taxes
• Pell Grant Cuts to Force Student Bank Borrowing
• Anti-Bankruptcy Laws Favors Banks, not People
• Factory and Tech Jobs Lost to China and India
• Congress Ignores Melt Down of G.M. and Ford
• Prescription Drug Bill Aids Drug Firms/HMOs
• Saddling Our Kids with Trillions in New Debt
• 17 States Withdrew from No Child Left Behind
• Global Warming and Alternative Energy Ignored
• National Forest Logging Rights Sold for a Song
• Big Oil Allowed to Set Our Energy Policy
• Oil Dependence Winds Up Funding Terrorists
• G.I. Deaths in Iraq Soon to Exceed 9-11 Total!
• 70,000+ Iraqi Deaths Includes 10,000 Children
• Go-It-Alone Reckless Cowboy Diplomacy
• 4th Year of Iraq War: Same as WWII, Civil War!
• Murder Up as Homeland Security Cuts Policing
• Outing a CIA Agent to Defend Lies about WMDs
• North Korean Nuclear Missile Threat Ignored
• Ports Sold to Foreigners and Uninspected Cargo
• Terrorism and War Used to Foster Political Ends
• Halliburton Billions from No-Bid War Contracts
• One-Party Government puts All Blame on GOP
• Corruption and Indictments of GOP Congress
• Mica and DeLay Let Lobbyists Write our Laws
• Mica Let Bush Seize Our Phone-Bank Records
• Mica Did Not Stop Huge Media and Oil Mergers
• Mica’s Answer: $800,000 Highway Studies

Are You Better Off Since John Mica
and George Bush Got Into Power?

Do You Want Two More Years of Jobs Moving
Abroad, High Gas Prices, and Endless War While
Congress Ignores Your Interests and Our Future?

If Not, Vote Democratic!
Vote John Chagnon For Congress!

JACK’S VISION OF DEMOCRATIC CHANGE

• Return Honesty and Dignity to Our Government
• Restore Checks & Balances to Presidential Power
• Cancel Tax Breaks that Benefit the Wealthy Few
• Lobbying Reform and an End Corporate Welfare
• Return to Rising Wages, not just Rising Profits
• Re-Instate “Pay as You Go” to Federal Spending
• Rebuild FEMA: Prevent Ignoring Future Katrinas
• Deal with Rising Debt – Stop Raising Debt Limit
• Raise Minimum Wage – It Worked for Florida!
• No More “No Bid” Federal Contracts and “Pork”
• Make Drilling Off Florida’s Coast Off Limits
• Restore Oversight and Audit Federal Contracts
• Subsidize Alternative Fuels, Not Oil Companies
• U.S. Firms as Market Leaders in Solar Energy
• Global Cooperation to Halt Global Warming
• Offer Health Care Coverage like Congress Has
• Invest in our Educating, Training, Technology
• End Tax Breaks for Sending Good Jobs Abroad
• Protect Our Phone Records and Our Privacy
• Student Loans a Last Resort, not a Bank Windfall
• Offer a Helping Hand, Not Ignore the Helpless
• A Congress More Loyal to Country than Party
• Voting Rights and End to Partisan Redistricting
• Equal Rights and Equal Opportunity for All
• Bill Clinton & Bush Sr. to Broker MidEast Peace
• Set Deadline to Redeploy All Troops from Iraq
• Restore Our Pride at Home and Respect Abroad