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I am applying for a job, and you are the employers. I would like to represent you for two years in all of your dealings with the Federal Government. I am not a career politician, but a concerned American like you. I believe in public service, that with the unprecedented rights we have as Americans, come equivalent responsibilities. I would like to have the responsibility of making our government function on your behalf. I wish to represent your interests, not the special interests. I want to represent the public interest, not the desires of a few corporate bigwigs who have determined the course of Virginia politics far too often.

I believe that Americans are extraordinarily fair people. And I believe that we do not like to be taken for granted. We like choices and we like to make decisions, particularly the decisions that determine what kind of nation we are going to have.

I will make you only these promises: If you elect me, I will talk straight, I will work as hard as is humanly possible and

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