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From Ken Arnold's email:

Dear Fellow Republicans and Other Supporters:

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Most people look toward 2006 with relief and renewed hope -- because 2005 was not the best of years. Just some of the problems of 2005 that continue now in 2006 are the following:

1) The stock markets have languished.

2) Mortgage interest rates have risen - pinching all who have adjustable rate mortgages.

3) Healthcare costs continue in double digits -- ignored and unabated.

4) Defined Benefit (i.e. Pension Plans) are continuing their dramatic decline with the taxpayer continuing to get "stiffed" with the hugh bill of companies "off loading" their pension liabilities onto the taxpayer.

5) GM and Ford became "junk stocks" and are partly illustrative of the perils our manufacturing base faces with so-called "free-trade initiatives" as practiced today.

6) The War continues and has some Democrats even undermining efforts in un-American fashion.

7) Gas prices (both auto and home heating) have skyrocketed.


We can both list many more such highlights (lowlights?). But in 2006, let us focus on one hopeful positive: That we in the 8th District can send someone to Congress that can directly address and improve most all (not quite all) of the above problems - and many more. They're the only one with the background and demonstrated, detailed ideas to do it. That someone we can send to Washington to be our representative is Ken Arnold !

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