Steve Harvey

(Adam Schrager of 9News referred to the following campaign email as "hands down, the most creative fundraising pitch I've seen in 20 years of covering politics"):

Land of ruddy red rock and river,
Of ores and lores and scores from thither,
Of fruits of the mind left on the vine to wither,
Of too many who stand but too few who deliver;

Now it is time to at last leave behind
The politics bereft of reason and rhyme,
The poisonous fruits of ideologies blind,
Which seek to exalt the crude and unkind;

It's time, instead, to be well-advised,
To examine the systems of which we're comprised,
To derive our policies from thought well-apprised,
And become harmonious, healthy, and wise;

I humbly offer myself to this cause,
To help fight the good fight to pass the best laws,
To pull ourselves back from these Hobbesian jaws,
Holding out helping hands, not self-serving claws;

I need you now to help me help us,
To be your agent and earn your trust;
To do what we can and to do what we must,
Please keep my campaign from going flat bust!

As we approach a day when we celebrate the idealized story of a shared feast, let's remember that we are all gathered around a single table, partaking of a single meal. Politics, at its best, and as I seek to engage in it, is nothing more or less than the provisioning of that table around which we are all gathered. Please take a minute to contribute any amount, no matter how small (even just one dollar will help out!), to my campaign at (click the blue "contribute" link in the upper right corner of this window), or by mail to: Committee to Elect Steve Harvey, P.O. Box 271085, Littleton, CO 80127. Thanks so much! And Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

-steve.