First Things First

A great big thank-you for all the votes and support.  I sincerely thank every person that was part of the campaign from beginning to end.  There were so many people that worked so hard for what they believed.  This was a truly inspiring experience.  A grassroots campaign with limited finances garnered a large amount of support and that is something to be proud of.  We fell about 4,000 votes short of a win.

While we may have lost the primary election, we have not lost the momentum and conviction to continue the fight for what is 'right'.  The Common Sense and Core Values that were the basis of our platform is something we will carry forward into the future.  We must all keep up the fight and continue to inspire other citizens to get involved and be a part of the process.

We will continue the fight and continue to be involved in several ways to ensure that our beliefs have a voice!  I truly considered all of us a team that must continue to work together to protect the constitution, protect our principles, and ensure the American dream for future generations.

  

Future

I have been asked over and over if we will be running again in 2012.  I have been urged by many to seriously consider this as round one and prepare for the next round.

It is much too early for my family to consider this scenario only one day after the primary.  We have not made any formal decisions and we will seek advice and support in the future around this topic. 

The immediate focus will be on doing what we can during the general election to ensure that all general election candidates respect and support the issues around our 'Common Sense' and 'Core Values' platform.

Tom White's Campaign Comments

Tom White's campaign released a statement immediately after the primary.  White’s campaign manager, Ian Russell tells Nebraska Watchdog the Sakalosky voters are “free agents” who are frustrated with politics as usual. More importantly Russell says that big 37% wasn’t a vote for Sakalosky but “a vote against Terry.”
 

Nebraska Watchdog Article with Ian's Comments

I feel this is an insult to me, our campaign, all of our volunteers that worked so hard, and every voter that cast a vote for me.  I feel that Ian Russell owes me and all my supporters an apology with this comment.  He has completely dismissed anything we stood for, worked for, and earned.  This is the type of arrogant thinking that citizens are tired of.

I would put the link to Tom White's campaign email here, however, after checking his website we could not find one.  The best we can do is call his office and ask for an apology.  In addition, please feel free to email the press and let them know your thoughts as a supporter regarding these comments.

Tom White's Campaign Phone Number: (402) 578-5723

  

Future Newsletters

As promised, we will be staying very involved and we have decided to continue our newsletter and website blog.  Our expectation is to publish a newsletter about once a month and break down the biggest issues facing our country.  We will also continue the blog as a more frequent way to continue the discussion and plan to add a discussion board.

But I ask that we all stay involved at some level and continue to inspire others to stand up, pay attention, and become active!

Thank you all for your support!

God Bless,

Matt Sakalosky

Campaign Still Working Hard
Stood with the crew on 132nd and Dodge for 1 1/2 hrs and what a great time. Still have crews working that area, Bellevue, Papillion, and many other areas. Only 2 1/2 more hours...so it's not too late to get people out to vote! Regardless of the outcome, I thank everyone for their support!!! It has been truly inspiring.

Sign/Waives and Polling Places
Feel free to come out to 132nd and Dodge from 4-6:30pm for a campaign sign wave. Northeast corner. Just finished sign wave at 168th and Center and had a great response. Getting good feedback from all the poll workers we have stationed across the metro.

Election Night Party
Stop by and say hello or join us for the evening at our Election Night Party. It will be held at the German American Society lower hall (120th Street between L and Center Streets), anytime after 7pm. Hope to see you there.

Polls Open Today!

Out working the polling places this morning and getting a great response.  We are headed out to 168th and Center for a sign wave at 1pm...feel free to come and join us.  The turnout looks to be fairly low in the first 4 hours, so make sure to get everyone out to vote!  8 hrs to go.

 

Feel free to pick-up one of our signs and wave to people after you vote.  You just need to be 200ft from the polling entrace.  Most of the polling stations have little yellow cards at the point where you can stand.  If there is no sign, shoot us a message and we'll get you a sign.

 

Good Response at the Polls!

We have received an excellent response so far at the polls.  So many people have stopped to say thank-you to our campaign workers and myself.  More than half have given a thumbs up or a honk as they drive by.  Great response, so keep it up for 8 more hours!!!

Stop by and say hello or join us for the evening at our Election Night Party. It will be held at the German American Society lower hall (120th Street between L and Center Streets), anytime after 7pm. Hope to see you there.

The Polls open in less than 30 minutes. I will be starting out at 20844 Bonanza, the Lord of Life Church, then on to my polling place on 204th at the Luthern Church. Keep up the good work, make the one extra phone call or email, it all counts.

18 Hours until the polls close.  I went on the Channel Six midday show live today and what a very nice crew.  You can see the replay on Cox Channel 4.  We will also be on Fox 42 later this evening.  There is great momentum and we are very optimistic.  Keep networking and get out the vote, we are almost there!

"Get the Vote Out-This Race is Close"

There are only 24 hours left until the Primary.  With an expected low voter turnout, please be sure to contact all your friends and family today and get them to the polls tomorrow.  Every vote is going to be critical...now is the time we need your help!

 

This race is very close and we have an opportunity to 'Send Washington the Message' that you have 'Had Enough' of what is going on in D.C., especially with the spending and debt.  Our expectation is a result that may be too close to call.  Today, you can make the difference and help with the voter turnout for a win tomorrow!

 

The 'Lee Terry' Mailer

This weekend, Lee Terry mailed a postcard to voters speaking about how he wants to cut spending and reduce debt.  Let's remember the amount spending he voted for in his career and the willingness to have government intervene in the private markets:

• Voted for the TARP, Bank/Auto Bailouts
• Voted for Cash for Clunkers
• Voted for record spending throughout Bush years

These are the top three but it doesn't end there.  These were the wrong votes that has increased spending and has substantially increased the debt of our nation.  It's time to say 'No' to this record and let the established career politicians know that you have 'Had Enough'!

 

Election Night Party

You are invited to stop by and join us for an 'Election Night Party'.

Our campaign will be at the German American Society lower hall after 7pm.

 

Thanks to everyone that has assisted our campaign over the last year and we hope you will come out and celebrate on election night!

I hope everyone has an opportunity to share with their mother's and let them know how appreciated they are.

God Bless.

With the out-of-control spending that is going on in Washington, is it really a surprise that the current leadership is looking for ways to find 'additional revenue'?  Government revenue equals higher taxes.

Do they realize that hiking up our taxes will only serve to stifle the economy?  Do they realize how that will perpetuate unemployment and delay an economic recovery?

It is no surprise that Obama's jobs bill has not really done much to stimulate job growth.  The shovel ready jobs just aren't cutting it.  The idea that government creates jobs is a false one.  They need to get out of the way and let American business lead us back to recovery.  We need lower taxes and less government.  Let's take a lesson from Reagan and see if that works for a 'change'.

Dems trying to Find Tax Strategies
Value Added Tax1

The sad part about a faltering economy is that is does not hit everyone equally.  Public sector jobs are comparably doing very well compared to the rest of the economy.  The government never does with less...they only ask for more.  This prevailing attitude is best displayed by the video below:

Public Unions Stage a 'Give Up the Bucks' Rally

There will be a Town Hall Candidate Forum next week in Papillion.  I will be speaking, along with other candidates such as State Sen. Tony Fulton, Don Stenberg, Mayor David Black of Papillion, and many more.  A "Straw Poll" will be taken so we need you there.

Where:  Papillion LaVista High School,

(402 East Centennial Road) 

North Gymnasium: Please park in North Parking Lot

When:  Thursday April 29th @ 6:30-9:00 PM. 

Forum starts at 7:00 PM

We all know about the the 'Cornhusker Kickback', the 'Louisiana Purchase', and the bully tactics used to get the health care bill passed .  We forget the same thing has happened with the Cap and Trade Bill.

The Bully Tactics
People have forgotten about how the EPA may have squashed an internal report critical of global warming.  Alan Carlin, (primary author of the 98-page EPA report and 38 year veteran of the EPA), told CBSNews.com that his boss, McGartland, was being pressured. "It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on something else," Carlin said. "That was obviously coming from higher levels."  Al McGartland, said in an email message to a staff researcher, "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."

Carlin went on to conclude "that the data the EPA was using was at least three years out of date and did not reflect the latest research...global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They're not going up, and if anything they're going down.  The EPA also did not consider that global temperatures have declined for 11 years, that Atlantic hurricanes will be unaffected, and that there is little evidence that Greenland is shedding ice at expected levels.  My personal view is that there is not currently any reason to regulate carbon dioxide."
CBS News Article

The Payoff
The 'Cap and Trade' bill has it's own Cornhusker Kickback.  In a coal heavy state like Ohio, the vote of veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo was secured the Obama way, it was bought.  "They gave her what she wanted -- a new federal power authority, similar to Washington state's Bonneville Power Administration, stocked with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states."  
Link to Washington Times Article

The Nobel Prize Winner
You would think that a Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore, would be able to eloquently lay out a logical argument and defend his 'Man-made' global warming theories.  But he continues to refuse to debate the issue.  Watch this priceless video of Al Gore doing his best to avoid an 'O'Reilly/Factor' reporter.

Lee went to Matt and wagged his finger, something he is now denying.  He also stated that Matt was lying about him on his website. 



However, when asked by media and on KFAB, he won't give any details.  His campaign manager said it was because Matt called him a liberal. 

Just wanted to thank all the concerned citizens that came by and said hi and offered support and encouragement for our campaign at the Tea Party Express Rally.  It was inspiring to listen to the stories and passions that people throughout our area shared with us.  I would also like to thank all those who assisted in hosting the Tea Party Express group.

Action 3 News Coverage and Interview

We will be at the Tea Party Express Rally, Thursday, April 1st, at Lake Zorinsky.  Visit us at our tent.  Come join thousands of our fellow citizens!

Click Here to Find out the specific event details...

In the wake of the passage of the health care bill, we are beginning to see what is in the long range plans for health care.  As I, and many others have warned, this is just a first step to universal care fully run by the government.  The process is called incrementalism.  This is a bad bill altogether and it still does not fundamentally address any of the issues facing our health care system.  But then again, that's not what this was about.

I just finished speaking today with 2 hospital CEO's and one Chief Financial Officer.  Their question to me: how do we survive this?  This bill is going to raise taxes, reduce reimbursement to health care providers, and ration care. 

It's not too late to turn back.  I will support and actively work to repeal this atrocity and propose true ideas that will arrest inflationary costs in our health care system.  Part of the problem is governement and the solution is not more government!  Read my health care white paper to see some of the angles we need to pursue for true reform.

Here is an excerpt that quanitifies the thought process of today's Democratic leadership:

 

We have all heard about the tactics being used by Nancy Pelosi to pass the Health Care bill in the House.  The unsightly tactics highlight the difficulty that most representatives are having swallowing the details of the bill.  The type of changes being proposed, if enacted, would fundamentally destroy our private health care system.  It will also provide federal funds for abortion.  But most importantly, it will unconstitutionally rewrite the contract that citizens have with their government.

 

As details continue to change minute to minute leading up to a possible Sunday passage of the current bill, you still have time to call and make your voice heard.

 

To help everyone understand the fundamental issues in the health care system, I have posted a white paper: click here to read more about health care...

At the Digital Inclusion Summit in Washington today, U.S. Regulators are wanting to mandate free and low cost broadband internet service for a third of our country.
The FCC also stated there would also be a recommendation to launch a Digital Literacy Corps of volunteers who would provide training to communities with low rates of adoption.
(click here for the Reuter's article released today)

Lee Terry was invited to speak at the Digital Inclusion Summit in Washington.  He said he is passionate about ensuring broadband access to all Americans.  In this time of alarming spending and debt, get ready to hold on to your wallets once again!

Speaking and doing are all too often different things in today's politics.  Just a couple months ago, Lee commented on the President's State of the Union address:
"As a fiscal conservative President Obama has my full support to hold the line on spending and reduce our ever-increasing national deficit.  I also agree with President Obama that we must create jobs and job growth for small businesses—that is key to getting our economy back on track.  At the same time I am deeply concerned with the trillions of dollars that will be added to the national debt over the next several years. And the amount of taxes increases, especially in the last year is mind-boggling.”

Well Congressman Terry, you have voted for much of that spending and debt that we are leaving our children.  You were part of the Republican Congress earlier in the decade that spent at record levels with a Republican President.  You voted for the TARP bill and have spent our hard earned tax dollars on the companies that were too big to fail...such as the big banks, the car companies, etc.  Then you passionately supported the Cash for Clunkers program, which intervened in the free markets and again supported the very auto companies you bailed out just a short time ago.  This is after you mandated new CAFE standards to the car companies which caused them to spend billions in research and development.

And here you go again being passionate about mandates, (which just like the $50 sewer fee we will all be paying soon), we might as well resign ourselves to paying more for our internet service.  It doesn't matter if it's a tax or a mandate, we pay the bill! 

Over a decade ago, you passionately spoke about term limits and only serving a couple terms in office.  There is a pattern of rhetoric that does not match your actions.  A fiscal conservative, I think not.

Regardless of the energy source, the government wants to control your energy use!  Whether it is oil for the automobile or electricity for our homes, the current Congress is attempting to put legistlation in place to punish your energy use; this legislation is called 'Cap and Trade'.  It has more accurately been dubbed 'Cap and Tax'.

Since the 1960s, the environmentalists have railed against every kind of energy...oil, coal, nuclear, etc.  We all want a clean environment, but we also need energy.  If we relied on the environmentalists, we would be using candle power in our homes at night.  Their latest argument: global warming is man-made.  However, man-made global warming is just the latest excuse to be able to tell you how to live. 

The theory has come crashing down.  We have all seen the recent uncovering of the blatant attempt at 'lying' to bolster the 'man-made global warming theory' because the evidence certainly does not back up the 'theory'.  They will not let facts get in the way.

Even with the latest crumbling of the global warming theory, the liberals march on.  This is what it will mean to you in real terms:  To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, in order to reach that goal, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.  Our current Administration and Congress is well on it's way to setting the amount of energy each and every one of us can use.

Since when is it the under the President's authority to tell us how much we will pay for gasoline and how much we will use?  This is blatant and arrogant thinking that extends beyond the bounds of our President and/or Congress.

$7 Gasoline - Read what the Harvard Researcher has to say...

Lee Terry claims to be 'light green'.  Let's see if he is willing to give us a definition of what that is.  After the Hill-Terry bill, it will be hard to trust any progressive Republicans on energy issues.  Does he agree with what Sarah Palin has been proclaiming over the last year and half?

Read a little a more about energy here...