Candidate for
United States Representative; District 52

My name is John Rinaldi, and I am a Progressive Democrat running for Congress restore our nation to the people and to help put our country back on track. On June 6, you will cast the most important vote in our District's history. It is a vote to send one Democrat forward to the Fall election to take on Duncan Hunter. I am ready to help retake our District. I am Duncan Hunter's exit strategy.

Our nation has seen great waves of progressive vision in the face of adversity: FDR's New Deal, JFK's New Frontier, and LBJ's Great Society. We are at a cross-roads in this election. As Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote:

To meet these new challenges we look for new ingredients in our public servants, an elasticity and flexibility of mind that enables them to change in order to meet changes; an alert and hospital intelligence that can grasp new issues, new conditions, new peoples. We look especially for a man who knows what he thinks and can make his views clearly understood without ambiguity or hedging. We need a man with the courage to stand up and be counted on major issues.

I invite you to visit my 20/20 Vision for the 21st Century. I am committed to economic dignity for all Americans, protecting reproductive freedom, universal access to health care and education, fiscal responsibility, protecting the environment, and true security--not unnecessary wars.

I have proposed a Congressional Ethics Pledge. to bring back honest leadership to our nation's leaders.

I believe in a government that benefits those whom it serves, not those who serve it. I have been building a coalition of partners that reflects those in our District, as shown through my endorsements: major labor organizations, veterans, young Democrats, the Chicano Association, Asia-Pacific Islanders, teachers, women, and local, state, and national leaders. These individuals and groups support my campaign because they believe that America can be better--and that together, with your help, we will make it so.

I ask for your vote on June 6. My name is John Rinaldi, and I am ready to represent you.

Your friend,

John