Dear friends:

I am writing to you today to urge you to vote for me, Bill Peirce, for Governor of Ohio in Tuesday's election and to ask your friends to vote for me.

If you believe the polls, I will not win the governorship in tomorrow's election.  So why should you vote for me?  Because much more is at stake than just the governorship.

What is at stake in Tuesday's election?  Freedom.  The Libertarian party is the only consistent defender of freedom today.  Where was the outcry when Congress abolished habeas corpus as part of the Military Commissions Act?  Where was the protest when Homeland Security announced that the "no fly list" would be extended to all arrivals and departures by land or sea to or from the U.S.?  How long before it will be a crime to be caught without your Identification Papers?  How soon will it be a crime to own an animal without an implanted chip?

Closer to home, who objects when the State assumes control of wage rates?  Who questions writing a monopoly on gambling into the constitution?  Can any voice be heard defending the right of a property owner to allow people to smoke in his building?  Bit by bit, our rights are chipped away—and neither major party raises a voice in protest.

What is at stake in Tuesday's election?  Ohio's economy.  The economic plans of both major party candidates are based upon the belief that bureaucrats and politicians are able to spend your money more wisely than you can.  The results are obvious in the lagging growth and sagging employment in Ohio.  The direct relationship between low taxes and growth and between freedom and prosperity is shoved aside in favor of "pay to play" for the benefit of the politically powerful.  The young people understand what is happening and are streaming out of Ohio.  It is not another college scholarship program that will keep them here.  It is freedom, low taxes, and the economic growth that results.

What is at stake in Tuesday's election?  Ohio's future.  Voting Libertarian sends the message that the people do care, that we are not sheep grazing placidly until it is time for shearing or slaughter.  Every vote cast for me sends a strong signal that voters are fed up with the direction in which this state and the country have been moving.

Voting for either of the two major parties sends a message, too:  it tells the major parties that we are content with things the way they are and that we are content to elect the lesser of two evils, election after election after election.

I urge you to make a difference.  I implore you to make your vote truly stand for something.  On Tuesday, I ask you to vote for Bill Peirce for Governor of Ohio.

Sincerely,

Bill Peirce

Bill wrote the above as a message to the people on his mailing list. He asked me to post this one specifically for his myspace friends: