Ask and You Shall Receive

In Colin Bain’s parting shot at Tuesday’s debate he said he was “still waiting for that clean campaign pledge” So, we gave it to him (See the video on the right side of the screen or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtDSTSAsW80). On Friday, Amy and Natalie went to the fifth hour AP Politics class to ask Colin to sign the 2010 Clean Campaign Pledge. Not surprisingly, he refused. Colin Bain is a hypocrite. He asked for the pledge to sign, and when we gave it to him, he refused. The pledge read:


“The undersigned parties retract any and all previous negative and slanderous ads, blog posts, etc. and swear to use clean campaign strategies from here on out”


The STATE Party blog claims that this is an infringement of their First Amendment rights. First, they clearly need a lesson in Constitutional law. The First Amendment only protects individuals from the government; it does not apply to private organizations. Second, we simply provided them with the campaign pledge, which Colin so dramatically requested. We weren’t trying to force unfair policies on them.


For example, the STATE Party posted a slanderous ad claiming “Is Calvert Exploiting Unpaid Chinese Immigrants?” It’s probably important to point out that it’s a picture of Alex Kong, from Fifth Hour AP Politics. This is just one of many examples of their weak, underhanded campaigning. A Vote for the STATE Party is a Vote for Lies.



We had an incredible opportunity to engage in an in-depth discussion of the issues, to be better then our adult counter parts, and Calvert feels that we would be remiss to pass it by and that is exactly what the State Party has done by focusing almost exclusively on negative campaign ads. That’s why Calvert pledged to run a clean campaign.


As you go to the polls tomorrow, you will be faced with a choice, voting for Calvert: the one that has been honest to you throughout the whole campaign, the one with smart policies that will make America better. Or you could vote for Colin: the one who asked for a clean campaign pledge and then refused to sign it, the one with policies that will explode America’s deficit, damage its environment, and leave America much worse than before. It’s an easy choice.

Vote Calvert Pfannenstiel for President.