April 13 target date for show of commitment to restoring fiscal sanity in Minnesota

I need your help. Between now and Tuesday, April 13, I am asking you to drop a Money Bomb on the status quo. To get our fundraising and a rebirth of independence for the people of Minnesota off to a raucous pace, I’m asking you, in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s 267th birthday, to make a donation to my campaign.

We have a new video up on www.patandersonforauditor.com providing details about the Money Bomb. Click here to donate and to watch the video. You’ll also find some suggestions for helping my campaign promote the Jefferson’s Birthday Money Bomb.

Why a Jefferson’s Birthday Money Bomb?

Between today and April 13:

• If everyone of my nearly 2,000 facebook fans contributed $26.70 in honor of the founding father that wrote the words we live by, that we are “endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights …,” my campaign would raise over $50,000 in individual contributions to be used to promote my message of cutting waste, making government live within its means and pushing responsible reform of the relationship between state and local government.

• If just a third of people who receive my campaign emails, the people who regularly open, read and often comment back on the email content, contributed just $10 dollars in recognition of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which figured so heavily in Jefferson’s defense of state sovereignty in his draft of the Kentucky Resolutions, my campaign would garner close to $45,000.

• If everyone who has expressed support for my campaign – on facebook, twitter, and through emails – encouraged just one friend to contribute $7 dollars to the campaign – a dollar for each month remaining until the general election – that would put over $50,000 additional into our fight to restore fiscal sanity to Minnesota.

My campaign has strength in numbers, and my supporters show strength of character. Now is the time to show strength in commitment.

Thomas Jefferson penned the words of the Declaration of Independence, but his sentiment was shared by all the founding fathers, and all, each as a free and independent individual, signed his name and pledged in Jefferson’s words, “his life, his fortune and his sacred honor to the cause.”

A $40 contribution in our founders’ honor may not seem like much, but to me personally and my campaign, it means all the difference in the world!

We can’t afford to be passive!

I am grateful for the overwhelming support you have shown for my return to the State Auditor’s Office. But taking nothing for granted,  now is not the time to coast into a general election against DFL incumbent Rebecca Otto, the self-admitted Rodney Dangerfield of Minnesota Constitutional Officers – for good reason: She gets no respect.

Respect is earned, and while Minnesota has piled mandate after mandate on local governments and local governments have made demand after demand on state government for more funding, Otto, whose office is the link between state funding and local spending, has done nothing beyond the required minimums of her job to reform the relationship between state and local government.

Otto has abdicated leadership and joined in the faceless chorus shouting for tax increases as the end all/be all DFL solution to every problem. I’ve already started taking her on in the pages of the Star Tribune.

We need a State Auditor who has earned respect. Recognized as one of Minnesota’s most effective State Auditors, I was endorsed over the current auditor by every major newspaper in the state except the New Ulm Journal. And no wonder: I held government to account as the Taxpayers’ Watchdog. Today, even more so than then, government needs to tighten its belt just like every Minnesota family has.

But I can’t change things without your help – I need your help with a contribution and your help promoting the Thomas Jefferson Birthday Money Bomb between now and April 13th.

Won’t you help me restore fiscal discipline to the state? We need a tough, strong watchdog to make sure the people’s money isn’t wasted. I will, as I was in the past, be that Watchdog in the State Auditor’s office.

Thank you for your support.

Pat

PS — Between now and April 13th, check my website daily for the Thomas Jefferson Quote of the Day.