Dr. Carl Mumpower for Congress 2008

Carl Mumpower for the 11^th District

An Independent Republican

and a True Conservative Voice for Western North Carolina

We appreciate your interest in supporting our campaign for the 11th District Congressional seat. There are several ways you can help:

If you would like to learn more, please join the Mumpower E-Express (just place your email address in the box to the right) so that you can receive our weekly press releases/position statements. We appreicate your efforts to forward those emails to others, regardless of party affiliation, with an interest in the future of America. Your email address will not be shared.

I want to meet with every small gathering of folks I can to learn from you and share where I stand on the issues. Your help in securing those informal meet and greet opportunities would be appreciated. Face to face contact is the best way to secure voter confidence in our sincerity.

We need volunteers of all sorts. In fact our campaign is going to use only volunteers - no paid staff or managers - to assure that our grassroot efforts remains grounded and genuine. No matter where you live in the 11th District District - your help is welcome and important.

Bumper stickers, buttons, signs, and other campaign material are available on request. Please email (or call) and let us know what you need.

Your campaign contributions matter - no matter what the amount. We are not taking any special interest, union, political action committee donations. That makes your help crucial and an investment in the best form of campaign finance reform - candidate refusal to participate in a system that has special interests buying the future of America.

Your ideas, suggestions, and support are always welcome. This is not about one person - its about all of us - learning and moving forward - together ...

The Mumpower for Congress "Lincoln Campaign"

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A mission to do nothing less than change the formula for Congressional elections and service-

There is simply no such thing as clean special interest money. It all comes with attachments, agendas, and obligations - such money is always an investment in buying a piece of America's future. Under our present system for electing members of Congress, how one runs predetermines how one will serve. Regardless of the denials and hollow claims of autonomy, very few politicians, from either party, arrive in Washington with their dignity, independence, and principles intact. Special interest driven campaigns insure that power, party or popularity trump principle almost every time and insure paralysis and misguided priorities on Capitol Hill. I intend to reverse that formula.

I am committed to not accepting any PAC, union, party, or other special interest monies to help me buy a seat in Congress. I won the 11th District Republican primary with any eye on the common good and no attached obligations to the party power structure or any special interest. That win provides opportunity to challenge a system that purchases seats in Congress, press my party to return to its core principles, and to conduct a campaign that changes the formula for Congressional elections and service.

Going forward, we are going to fund our campaign one Lincoln at a time. Our goal is to reach out for to all concerned voters, regardless of party, who believe we need to take back America. We are asking for a $5 contribution toward that goal and a willingness to ask 3 friends to do the same. We are grateful for any contribution within legal limits, but $5 from enough people can be more powerful than a lot of money from those accustomed to buying America's future.

I am going to win or lose standing up straight through our "Lincoln Campaign" - obligated only to the common good and holding fast to a committed set of principles. Together - we have the potential to change politics in America. As a candidate who is more interested in America's future than my own, there is really no other reason to run.

Carl Mumpower
11th District Republican Congressional Candidate

Principles before party, power, or popularity - always.