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Mike Flynn for Congress
1006 Maine St
Quincy, IL 62301
309-340-1823
www.mikeflynnforcongress.com
mikeflynnforcongress@gmail.com
April 7th, 2015
Dear Fellow Republican,
I am a candidate for Congress in the Special Election to
represent the 18th District. A sixth-generation native of Central
Illinois, I want you to know more about me and what I stand for. I
am not a career politician, but a committed conservative who has
been at the forefront of policy debates for more than 20 years.
I was born and raised in Quincy. My family founded a bottling
company there in 1874. Through high school and before and
after college, I worked at every level of the family business. After
college I managed one of its distribution plants, covering the
northwestern part of the 18th District.
This early experience in business showed me the destructive
impact government policy has on small businessmen and
entrepreneurs. My mother’s family were farmers in Morgan
County and I remember the crazy times government paid people
not to farm.
As a result, I became more involved in the Republican Party. I
worked for the Illinois House Republicans in Springfield,
including the only time in the last three decades where
Republicans controlled the House of Representatives. During
that time, I was a policy analyst and helped move our agenda of
welfare and school reform through the General Assembly.
The state legislature sent me to Washington, to act as a liaison
with Illinois’ Congressional delegation. I realized more fully how
out of control our federal government was becoming.
For seven years I was policy director for the American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the nation’s largest
membership association of state legislators. My mission was to
push conservative policy solutions at the state and federal level.
We were able to secure meaningful tort reform, health care and
education reform and tax and spending limitations in numerous
states.
It isn’t enough to identify and support important reforms. One
must know how to lead to achieve success. Conservative
policies work, but we must advance them and, quite often, fight
for them.
The challenges our nation faces are daunting. We have over $18
trillion in debt, with hundreds of billions more added every year.
Our economy is struggling beneath an overly complicated tax
code and a tidal wave of regulations. Every day, our government
gets deeper into our health care decisions, jeopardizing our
medical care. Every day, also, thousands of foreign nationals
stream into the country without the most basic background
check.
America can meet these challenges. It cannot meet these
challenges with the same politics as usual, though. Six years
ago, Andrew Breitbart and I launched BigGovernment.com,
exposing the corruption of the left-wing ACORN. This work
evolved into Breitbart News, one of the largest conservative
news organizations.
William F. Buckley once said that the role of conservatives is to
often stand “athwart history and yell stop.” We must stop
runaway spending and tax hikes. We must stop the wave of
foreign nationals streaming unaccounted for into the country. We
must stop ObamaCare’s rot of our health care system.
We must also stop the institutional left’s attack on our country’s
founding principles.
Only then can we win the reforms our nation needs and ensure
that our children and grandchildren have the same opportunities
we and our predecessors enjoyed.
This is our chance to stand up.
I ask for your help. First, please go to our website and sign up
for our newsletter to stay informed about this important
election. Second, I ask you to circulate the attached petition and
return it to us by Sunday, April 19th. You can email or call us
and we’ll arrange to pick it up. Finally, please sign up to be a
volunteer on our website.
Our chance to change Washington is now. I know that I can do it
with your help. Thank you for being a part of our efforts.
Sincerely
Mike Flynn
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS-SPECIAL PRIMARY PETITION
We, the undersigned, members of and affiliated with the Republican Party and qualified primary electors of the Republican Party,
in the 18th Congressional District of the State of Illinois, do hereby petition that
Michael J. Flynn,
who resides at 1665 Hampshire St, Quincy, Illinois, 62301, County of Adams, and State of Illinois,
shall be a candidate of the Republican Party for the nomination for the office of
Representative in Congress
of the State of Illinois for the 18th Congressional District, to be voted for at the Special Primary Election to be held on June 8, 2015,
pursuant to the Writs of Special Election issued by the Governor on March 31, 2015; or, in the event such date is changed by order
of a court, by any amended Writs of Special Election, or by the state legislature, on that date so specified.
Voter's Signature
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I, _______________________________________, do hereby certify that I reside at __________________________________,
Circulator Name
Circulator Address
__________________________, __________, County of ___________________, State of _______, that I am 18 years of age or
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Zip Code
older, that I am a citizen of the United States, and that the signatures on this sheet were signed in my presence between April 1,
2015 and the last day for filing of the petitions, and are genuine, and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the persons so
signing were at the time of signing the petition qualified voters of the Republican Party in the 18th Congressional in the State of
Illinois and that their respective residences are correctly stated, as above set forth.
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Circulator Signature
Signed and sworn (or affirmed) by _______________________________________before me on ___________________
Circulator Name
SEAL
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Notary Public Signature
Instructions and Guidelines for Circulating and Signing Mike Flynn Petitions for Congress Thank you for taking the time to circulate a petition to get Mike Flynn on the ballot for the 18th Congressional District vacancy. Circulating petitions is easy and fun. You can circulate among your neighbors, at your business, within community and social groups, or any place that people gather. When you are done circulating, please contact us by phone or email below and we will arrange to get your signed and notarized petitions by ​
Sunday, April 19th​
. Circulators Any citizen over the age of 18 can circulate a petition, even if they don’t live in the district or even the state. The circulator must witness each signature on the petition that he or she distributes. You can copy a blank petition or print out additional ones. You may distribute as many petitions as you’d like. Your petition must be notarized to be valid. You must fill in your address on the circulator’s statement. An invalid signature does not invalidate all the other signatures on the petition. Petitions do not need to have every line filled in to be valid. Please turn in any partial petitions. Do not number the petitions that you hand in. Petition Signers Anyone can sign who is a registered voter in the 18th Congressional District. A person who has signed a Democratic petition for the special election is ineligible to sign this petition, however there are no announced Democratic candidates so that shouldn’t be an issue. A person can sign a petition for more than one Republican candidate for the 18th Congressional District vacancy. Signers and circulators must give a valid physical address on the petition. No post office boxes are allowed. Petitions should be signed as the person signs his or her name typically. You may sign the petition that you are circulating. mikeflynnforcongress@gmail.com 309­340­1823
www.mikeflynnforcongress.com 1006 Maine St, Quincy, IL 62301