SATURDAY * SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

WHERE: National Guard Armory

                1502 Linwood Ave. (U.S.30)

                Valparaiso, IN  46385

DOORS OPEN:  5:30PM

SHOW STARTS:  6:00PM

COST:  $25.00 a ticket, includes food & beverage

TICKET INFORMATION:  call 219.762.8344

Come join Mark Leyva and friends for a night of food and fun, with Jim Holmes a credited Elvis tribute artist.

Dear Voters,

We are paying too much at the gas pumps and at the grocery store.  With all the energy resources we have in the United States and off shore, we know the United States can be oil independent.  In order to reduce some of our family expenses and enable us to give our children more instead of less, we need Congress to take an up or down vote on just drilling. As you know, Congress has less than a 10% approval rating with the American public.  The incumbent is sending emails how the Republican’s have rejected voting on drilling three times.  What he is not telling you is that there is bad legislation attached to the drilling bill.  This wasteful spending would cost the taxpayers even more money.  This is why Congress has such a low approval rating and there is a need for change.  The only people blocking the drilling vote are the Democratic leadership.  The Democratic leadership will not allow the drilling vote on its own, with no wasteful spending attached.  Maybe if our leaders in Washington were more in touch with the working people, we would have this drilling legislation passed already.  DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS.

Mark Leyva

Edna from Portage wrote a great letter to the editor in the Post Tribune.

<blockquote>I believe the voters of the 1st congressional district should be more informed for the fall election.

Rep. Peter Visclosky is very proud of his earmarked (pork barrel) spending that our children will have to pay for after he is retired.

High gas prices are a major issue that affects all of us each and every day of our lives. The congressman and Republican challenger Mark Leyva differ drastically on this and many other issues. Please visit www.markleyva.com and compare.

Our congressman wants to tax the domestic oil industry on their profits, for which the consumers will pay. We need to drill and become oil independent.

Until this happens, we will continue to see layoffs in the auto industry and the end of many independent truck driver jobs. Don’t forget the high grocery prices it brings.

It is very clear which candidate cares about the working person. Please vote with clear vision on Nov. 4.</blockquote>

November 4th is the big day indeed.  Please consider writing a letter to the editor in your local newspaper in support of Mark between now and then.  We need more people like Edna to step forward and publicly support Mark.

Here are a few pictures taken at the Dyer Parade the other day! Click on the thumbnail to see the larger image!

A special thanks to everyone who came out!

Beneath the United States and our territorial waters is as much oil as there is in the Middle East but Congressmen like Pete Visclosky have repeatedly refused to allow safe and environmentally friendly drilling for American oil. As a result, our Representatives in Congress have allowed us to be held hostage by countries like Venezuela and Iran.

In an attempt to send a strong and undeniable message to Congress, a group called American Solutions is leading a petition charge that’s already collected nearly 600,000 signatures from Americans of all walks of life.

Let’s help them by joining with patriotic Americans like Chuck Norris, Newt Gingrich, Mark Leyva, thousands of others who are committed to making America Energy Independent!

Click here to sign the petition!

It’s no secret that Pete Visclosky has been enjoying the support of major special interest donors in and around Washington.  But as the Post-Tribune showed recently, those Special Interests are costing hard working Americans just like you MILLIONS of dollars every year! Ask yourselves who Pete is representing in Congress, the people of Northwest Indiana or the major donors to his campaign?

A quick look at OpenSecrets.org, which makes candidates FEC reports public, reveals that the top contributors to Pete’s campaigns have been the PMA Group, Prologic Inc., and Parametric Technology Corp.  Already, PMA Group has donated nearly $60,000 to his campaign for this 2008 race.  That’s on top of the nearly $175,000 they’ve given to Pete throughout the course of his career.
The investment in Pete Visclosky paid off for these special interest groups as they’ve secured over $20 MILLION dollars for projects that include “technical order optimization” for Parametric and the “optimal placement of unattended sensors” for Prologic.

This year alone, Pete Visclosky was the fourth-worst offender when it comes to pork barrel spending in the entire Congress.  In addition to our tax dollars that he sent to PMA Group, Prologic, and Parametric, Pete Visclosky also sent an additional $14.4 million dollars to other out-of-state programs.

The grand total of Pete’s corruption this year came to $130 million and he wants YOU to pay for it with your tax dollars.

But the problem doesn’t end with Pete Visclosky.  The Congress approved $15 Billion dollars of our money in 11,000 pork barrel projects this year alone.  That’s just one of the MANY reasons we need to send agents of change, like Mark Leyva, to Congress in November!   Mark is a limited-government, no-nonsense, let’s-cut-spending-right-now type of guy.  The kind of guy we need to send to Washington ASAP to help change the corrupt system.

Help Mark change the system by making a donation to our campaign. Pete Visclosky’s war chest grows with every deal he makes with special interests in Washington and it means we’re going to have an uphill battle in the fund raising department.  But just like Mark vows to stretch every dollar in Congress, he’s insisting that his campaign stretch every dollar you so generously contribute to our Northwest Indiana effort.