One Week Left Before Real Change

Whether you realize it or not, there is only one week left- 7 days- until the midterm election. This election in Michigan is about several things- getting rid of our liberal Democrat Governor, keeping Republican control of the offices in charge of elections and law, putting in place the right conservative people at the local level, and letting President Obama know that we reject his agenda by rejecting Democratic candidates at the national level. At the least, you need to make sure that you vote Republican for Congress or Senate this year, but if you want to become more involved, you should volunteer to help out by making some phone calls or go door to door or donate some money. If your race for Senator or Congress isn't competitive, then you can always feel free to help out or donate to the race for Congress here in Michigan's 9th District.

Here in the 9th District of Michigan, the Republican candidate Andrew 'Rocky' Raczkowski is in a dogfight with the incumbent Democrat Congressman Gary 'Pelosi' Peters. Peters won the historically-Republican district in 2008 by riding the coattails of Old Hope'n'Change, and now is pretending he is a fiscal conservative Republican by running commercial after commercial bragging about how he supports the opposite of everything that he voted for the last two years in Congress. Peters doesn't mention his party and doesn't mention his votes on the issues, and like most Democrats around the country, he is dumping massive amounts of special interest money into unbased and false personal attacks of Rocky. This race is an important race- Erick Erickson at Redstate put together a list of the top 99 GOP hopefuls this election, and the race for MI-9 was rated as #76 (he says it 'leans Dem', but that means nothing if on election day the GOP and independents and moderates all vote for Rocky).

MLive.com reports that both candidates recently appeared separately on WJR-AM 760:

Peters attempted to frame himself as a job-facilitator, touting recent his work on the Small Business Act, which is designed to spur local lending, and the Advanced Vehicle Technology Act passed last year.

Raczkowski replied "I've never so much rhetoric before in my entire life," referencing Peters' controversial votes on health care reform and cap-and-trade legislation.  "...I haven't seen anything come out of his office that helps Michigan or focuses on Michigan or actually really works on the issues that we have to do. He's been a rubber stamp for this administration, and I'm not a rubber stamp for any administration. I'm a rubber stamp for Michigan and for Oakland County families."

Peters is attempting to frame the situation, and Rocky is attempting to get voters to vote based on Peters record. Here is how dagblog analyzes the situation:

MI-9: First-term incumbent Gary Peters (D), a nine point winner in 2008, seeks to defend this depressed suburban district against the almost unfunded challenge of Rocky Raczkowski, who was nicked in the primary by charges that he committed fraud in connection with his business. Rocky led in one poll, and trailed in another, by EPIC-MRA, which seems to have a major house lean. This is a jump ball, but I really don't like relying on the EPIC-MRA poll. Jump ball, but I take the GOPer.

The only reason why this race is close is because Rocky is running his campaign by raising money from real people and isn't getting bought off by special interests like Peters. If you contribute to his campaign at http://www.rockyworksforus.com/ you can help him win!