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The standard will be something like this:

• He has never voted to raise taxes.
• He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
• He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
• He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
• He has never taken a government-paid junket.
• He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

• He voted against the Patriot Act.
• He voted against regulating the Internet.
• He voted against the Iraq war.

• He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
• He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
• He introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.

There are people running for office now calling themselves Ron Paul Republicans. There are voters who call themselves the same thing. The mantle is there for the taking. If people from dog catcher to President can stack there record up against this standard they deserve our votes, if not, they don’t. Period.

In Maryland’s 8th Congressional District the following people are running for the Republican nomination to challenge Chris Van Hollen for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Steve Hudson for Congress
Phone: 301-605-5050
steve@stevehudson2008.com
www.stevehudson2008.com

Meyer Marks for Congress
http://marksforcongress.blogspot.com

Brian Mezger for Congress
Phone: 301-910-3677
brian@mezgerforcongress.org
www.mezgerforcongress.org

Jay Roberts for Congress
Phone: 301-588-7176
jbrobert@verizon.net
www.jayroberts2008.com

Bruce Stern for Congress
438 North Frederick Avenue, Suite 316
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Phone: 240-740-7787
Fax: 240-631-6556
info@sternforcongress.com
www.sternforcongress.com

I know Jay Roberts personally. He is a strong supporter of Ron Paul and I will be backing him and voting for him. I want to see him get elected, but if he does he has his work cut out for him.

The only other of the candidates I’ve actually talked to for any length of time was Brian Mezger. I met him at the Montgomery County Fair in 2007 at the GOP booth. We completely disagree on Iraq, but his other positions fit the fiscal conservative, smaller government tradition and if he got the nomination I could vote for him easily against Van Hollen, who is not only wrong on the War, he’s wrong on fiscal and social issues as well.

The others of these I’ve heard speak. I know Steve Hudson is a Huckabee supporter for what that’s worth.

Meyer Marks and Bruce Stern? If Hudson or one of them got it, I’d vote for them.

But even if I get stuck with Van Hollen again, I have a real standard to hold him to.

Whoever wins, you’ll be hearing about it from me.