West Central Florida is key to victory in Florida for the Democratic ticket in 2008. In Florida's sprawling 5th Congressional District we have a true progressive candidate who is intelligent, well prepared with a demonstrated backbone who will bow to no one of questionable intention.
"John Russell, 2008 Democratic Nominee in Florida's 5th Congressional District will be a new progressive hero when elected to congress in 2008."
Beverley W. Inverness, Florida
"Can't You See What That Incumbent's Been Do'in To Me!"
John Russell is a Nationally Certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, ARNP with an MBA in Health Systems Management.
John Russell is an advocate for a National Single Payer Health Care Plan.
John Russell, MS ARNP,MBA on Health Care Problems/Solutions
John is running to unseat possibly the worst member of congress on any level. A person who has her name engraved on WWII service medals earned by veterans, who calls citizens of Puerto Rico and Guam "illegal aliens."
Who wrote a bill in 2003 to dig up veterans buried in Normandy on deeded American soil which is regarded as sacred ground.
Ginny Brown-Waste Mindlessly Defends Muslim Hate!
"Ginny Brown-Waite is by ANY measure a Bush Rubber Stamp NeoCon who must be replaced." Jerry C. Spring Hill, Florida
John Russell Campaign Website
From John Russell's Campaign website...
On 5 May 2008 I formally announced my candidacy for U.S. Representative, District 5 Florida. I am running for Congress because those who are charged with representing my interests and the interests of my neighbors clearly are not. Corporate America has tremendous representation while those who work have no voice.
I made this decision because I saw declining fortunes for working people across this nation and even worse so for the people of my community. I watched as the Congress remained paralyzed by partisanship and most disappointing, a distinct lack of "spine" on the part of Democrats who were elected in 2006 to both end the war and in so doing reverse the declining fortunes of middle America.
Sadly the war continues with no end in sight and middle America struggles with a cost structure that is spiraling out of control because of the "foreign" borrowing to fund it. The people of the Fifth Congressional District many of whom get by on the fixed income of retirement including Veterans, have had to make increasingly difficult personal finance decisions. Retirees who thought that they were in good shape financially in planning their retirement, now find themselves distressed and wondering which way to turn.
There is no question that to continue on the same path that we have been on for the past six years is not tenable. A change in direction is what is required and we all know that Ginny Brown-Waite is not capable of that. She has worked her way up through the system well beyond what the "Peter Principle" should allow with a record the likes of which one would expect.
While the value of our currency plummets and prices rise accordingly... would it not be nice if wages rose together with prices so that folks could stay even, but as we all know, they do not... So... What has our representative accomplished to improve the lives of her constituents in the past two years? Four years? Six years? Brown-Waite's record is clear and there will be no dancing away from Bush... no "evolving" as she pretended to do in 2006... There will be nothing of the sort in 2008.
The American middle class is being crushed by policies put in place or expanded over the past eight years that can only be alleviated by a change of representation in congress. To facilitate policy incurs accountability as well as responsibility and I intend to hold her to account on the issues important to those she has purported to represent.