June 5, 2022
Dear Friends,
I want to thank you for taking a moment to sign my nomination papers, making a donation, endorsing my candidacy, or otherwise supporting me. With your support I was able to qualify as the Green Party candidate for the new California Congressional District 10 and was on the June 7, 2022, primary ballot.
Election officials will be counting the votes by the time you receive this letter. On your ballot, for those in CA District 10, you have only seen my name along with the incumbent Democratic Mark DeSaulnier. The Republican candidate was disqualified. He was a Ukrainian immigrant, but he didn’t meet the 7 years as a U.S. citizen to qualify.
With two of us on the ballot, you might think I am guaranteed one of the top two positions on the November general election ballot. However, when no Republican qualified for the ballot, a local Republican was asked to run as a write-in candidate. Normally write-in candidates have little chance, but I am vulnerable as a Green candidate because of the Green Party’s small voter registration base.
My ability to withstand the write-in challenge will depend on two factors:
- How well a write-in campaign has been run by the Republicans.
- How many Democrats and Independents decide to vote for me as symbolic protest against the Democratic Party’s inaction on many important issues! Also, how many are not happy with the present condition of our society concerning the economy, the pending climate catastrophe and the promotion of war between Russia and Ukraine that could risk a nuclear war?
Mark and I have known each other for over 10 years going back to his State Senator days when he took a personal interest in my local community of Bay Point. I have nothing but good things to say about Mark as a person and I think he has represented Contra Costa residents in an honorable manner all through his long political career.
So why am I spending thousands of $ and many months of campaigning to run against Mark for a second time? Mark has made a career of not rocking the boat against the established powers in the Democratic Party, especially in California. Mark has created an aura around him as a polite, friendly progressive. Mark, in all sincerity, tends to personally vote in Congress as a good progressive. However, it is difficult to ever find him publicly opposing the corporate controlled Democratic Party leadership on any of those same progressive issues. These are progressive issues that continue to fail despite Mark’s vote. Mark avoids controversy and never makes any loud public stand on many progressive issues considered controversial by the corporate run Democratic Party. Mark is no Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Casio Cortez! Mark is almost too nice to be in the U.S. House of Representatives currently, where corporate owned Republicans and Democrats control the leadership with iron grips!
So why am I running? America and the world are at some dangerous crossroads politically, militarily, and environmentally! There is no time or value in being a timid person in Congress. I will be an issue-oriented bullhorn in Congress and with the people in my district and beyond. I will be outspoken about both the pending climate catastrophe and the near total seizure of our government, media, & society by the Military-Industrial-Media-Prison complex that President Eisenhower warned us about 60 years ago!
As a Green, I will owe no allegiance to the powers politically in control, Democratic or Republican. I will expect them to do what is best for the people and environment and I will not accept anything less! I realize that I will be among the very few in Congress who are willing to fight for what is right, but I will fight like hell to make a positive difference! I can certainly promise you that!
I offer my website as my introduction as to the bullhorn I will be in Congress. You might not agree with everything I say and support, but I base my opinions on facts and experts, especially those who are censored and banned by the MIMP complex. I welcome your respectful comments and concerns! I enjoy issue-oriented debates and will always remain open to consider serious fact-based different viewpoints. My viewpoints didn’t happen overnight, but from a lifetime exposure to countless experiences, information, and viewpoints from others! I have 50 years as a serious progressive activist!
I certainly don’t know or understand everything, so please let me know what you think on any given issue! I will be doing my very best to rely on the excellent group of progressive organizations and individuals that the military-industrial-prison-media complex is always censoring and attacking! They will have a loud voice with me!
With Peace, Justice, Human Rights, and the Environment,
Michael Ernest Kerr
MichaelKerrForCongress@yahoo.com
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