On the Road: Early Voting Begins
July 16th, 2010

On this first day of early voting, I find it hard to believe that we have reached the point where Tennesseans actually begin casting your votes to decide our Republican nominee in the Third District. What a great campaign it has been. On behalf of the entire Smith family, I thank each person who has offered your support, your time and your contribution.

Over the past year I have stood in places as diverse as family farms and in the national security complexes that are transforming the way we produce energy. I have been in homes and businesses, small shops and large factories. I have listened to your concerns and shared with you my ideas on restoring the American dream.

I have shared with you a pro-growth and job creation agenda that includes eliminating the death tax, capital gains taxes and reforming the way government collects taxes. I’m proud that my economic stands have been recognized with endorsements by the Club for Growth and The United States Chamber of Commerce.

It’s been humbling to me that my stands for the sanctity of life and protecting the role of the family earned the endorsements of Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America, Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council. Our government today ridicules the values we share. By standing together, we can return these values to a place of honor in government.

I understand and share your concerns about government spending, bailouts and selling our debt to hostile nations. I have been the only candidate who, from day one to today’s first vote, has called for an end to the Washington favor factory of earmarks. Like you, I know we cannot spend their money so irresponsibly and look our children in the eye without shame. The President has ignored our concerns about spending and, with your support, we can “take away his checkbook.”

If we are to have a health care system that honors America’s free market traditions, ObamaCare must be repealed and replaced with reforms that reduce cost, increase access and deal with the damage of trial lawyers.

If America is going to be a nation that respects the law, we will find leaders with the courage to seal our borders and deal with the growing problem of illegal immigration. If we are to respect our traditions, government will protect, not attack, our Second Amendment rights. If we are to honor the founders’ intent, the states will no longer feel the heavy hand of the federal government mandating policy from Washington.

This past year has been a remarkable experience. I have made so many new friends and grown closer to old friends across these great eleven counties. Whether it is a group of sisters inviting me into their home for singing in the kitchen after church or stopping for apple butter at Ritter’s Farm, each moment is one to remember and only makes me more proud to call this place home. Most remarkable are the moments when I know someone who cannot afford it hands me a contribution of a few dollars because they believe I might be the vehicle through which a government that has long since stopped listening might hear them once again.

It is a humbling experience when someone places their faith in you.

So with the end of a wonderful year, I ask for your vote. I will carry your belief in life, opportunity and freedom with me to Congress. I believe in this nation and ask you to stand with me as we put it back on the path to being a more perfect union.

God bless,

Robin

Posted by Robin Smith

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