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May 14th, 2008 by Elizabeth DoleThe people of North Carolina elected me to the United States Senate in 2002 and I consider each day that I work on your behalf a true privilege.
North Carolina - and the nation - face many difficult challenges. Some of the most complex of those challenges - such as energy policy that is clean and independent of foreign oil, protecting our nation from terror, strengthening our economy in a competitive world market and securing our borders from massive illegal immigration will require carefully crafted solutions. How our nation resolves these crucial issues will have very real implications on the daily lives of every person, every family and every business for generations to come.
There has been a great deal of partisanship and political posturing over how to deal with our challenges. But gasoline prices approaching $4 per gallon hurts every person and every business. Paying for the millions of illegal immigrants now in the nation – and the millions of potential illegal immigrants that will come to this nation if allowed – affects every person and every business. If terror is allowed to come to America, it will have a negative impact on the economy of every community and the liberties of all North Carolinians and all Americans. These – and other prominent issues don’t just impact Republicans or just Democrats. They affect of us all. They are American issues.
I believe the “change” that most people want in North Carolina is to simply move toward finding common ground and real and long lasting solutions to the big challenges we face. In the campaign ahead, I want to hear from YOU – the voters of North Carolina – to hear what challenges you see and your ideas on how we can solve them.
Modern campaigns have become a contact sport, so please anticipate that this campaign – and yours truly – will come under attack. There will be careless attacks – personal attacks – votes and issues taken out of context – maybe even outright falsehoods. There is little I can do to prevent that, but I will defend my record and this campaign will do all that it can to get the truth to the voters each and every day through November 4th.
I hope you will take this opportunity to join the Dole Team today. My campaign cannot be successful without your help and support. When I was President of the American Red Cross, I was apt to tell potential volunteers that I needed their time, their money and their blood. Well…I’m not asking for your blood, but I do hope you will honor my campaign with your time, your ideas and your financial support.
Thank you for coming to my web-site and reading my first blog.
With heartfelt appreciation,
Elizabeth
May 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I hope that Senator Dole will wage a vigorous and assertive campaign this year because the state needs it. I also hope that on the website, the staff will post an issue based agenda on where the Senator will take us in the future. With the tide turning against the GOP this year, we can’t afford to rest on the laurels of the past years but must make plans for the future to distinguish ourselves from our opponents.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Just a quick note to say two things. First and foremost, the people of North Carolina are truly blessed to have a hero of an American like Senator Elizabeth Dole representing them in the Senate… it’s a testament to the wisdom of the people of North Carolina.
Secondly, on an essentially unrelated matter, as a professional who has spent the past decade studying political web sites — I honestly believe this new ElizabethDole.org is among the best campaign web sites I’ve ever seen. Well written, well laid out, with an intelligent visual appeal.
Very best regards! We’re all rooting for Senator Dole!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Glad to have a fine candidate like Elizabeth Dole running this year.
It looks like it could be a tough year for the GOP nationally, but in NC we have a sound candidate who loks like a winner.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Elizabeth — great to see you joining the debate in such a public forum. I enjoyed seeing you during my visit to DC on 4/15, and thank you for highlighting the critical economic issues affecting us during this election cycle.
In the eyes of many working Americans, terror is already firmly on our shores. It’s the terror of inflation that’s understated by our Bureau of Labor Statistics, and grocery and gas bills that are spiraling out of control.
Folks are getting frustrated, and looking to the government for “change”. Unfortunately, today’s federal government is the average American’s biggest enemy as it continues to borrow and print money on top of an existing $9.4 trillion national debt, and unfunded liabilities of $40-60 trillion (depending on whose numbers you believe) for Medicare and Social Security.
Our national credit card is tapped out, and the rest of the world is gradually telling us what our dollar is worth — as a result, we are being hammered with higher prices that are eviscerating the middle class.
Given that the emperor is very poorly dressed, it’s time to own up to the fact that our federal government can’t help us any more. Washington cannot create wealth — it can confiscate through taxes, borrow and create debt for my children, or print money and make our existing dollars worth less.
How can we get people to realize that “change we can believe in” does NOT mean a federal government providing “benefits” that it can’t afford? Continuing to borrow and print money to “help” will only make the underlying problems worse.
Here’s hoping our party, and the people, will figure out a way to move in a better direction:
http://blog.lawsonforcongress.com/2008/05/07/earth-to-gop/
Looking forward to joining you on the campaign trail!
BJ Lawson
Congressional Candidate, North Carolina’s 4th District
May 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
We appreciate you and what you stand for in representing North Carolina in the Senate. Americans have been led by the media to want “change.” We do need change - the gridlock the Democrats have maintained in prohibiting the confirmation of good judges needs to changed. Corruption needs to be changed. But we DEFINITELY do NOT need the “change” that Sen. Obama wants to bring, or that your opponent will endorse. We need a strong military, he wants to emasculate it. We need strong marriagaes comprised of one man and one woman, which he opposes. We need to protect innocent life in the womb, which he could care less about. We need a strong conservative voice to withstand the attacks of the left. Thank you for what you do.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Senator Dole, I have written you on many occasions. I feel that you have done a fair job at your post. There is much to be done to return this country to the people. Your vote on the farm bill was disappointing as it continues the concept that government can fix all and it only creates disasters. ie ethanel which is creating world hunger. The list is very long that I could create. Cap and trade is opposed by 65% of the Americans. Not one penny for cap and trade.
Look up the recent polls. These include your voters. Here is a new energy policy that will work, DRILL, DRILL. Get Gov. out of the way. I fear that most Republicans have lost touch with the people. These two issues could put Republicans back in power but not the bi partisan sell outs that they have been doing. I hear now that Montana is planning on suceeding out of the union. Watch the land prices soar there.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
I believe that the best cure to any of America’s problems is to get the Government out of the way. The energy “crises” is completly the fault of politicians. No drilling anywhere, no new refineries, mandated ethanol including huge farm subsidies, vetoed by our President and overridden by cowardly Republicans. The Congress has given us both high fuel and food prices, and now as a final insult to our intelligence proposes
“cap and trade” a huge tax increase on all citizens. It is imperative to remove all who support these issues.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 am
Thank you, Senator Dole:
Once again you have demonstrated the greatest maturity in your approach to solving problems!
Not rhetoric and hand-waiving but on-the-street with nitty-gritty, real effort! Thank you for the real effort to keep criminals out of our country!
My wife and I have been waiting three years to even get a chance to obtain a waiting number for her immigration. We are still waiting to get a number in the waiting-line. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of dishonest people have gone around the legal process of our country and filled our nation’s crevices with petty (at least) criminals.
I have spent untold amounts of money and time flying half-way across the world to be with her (no less than 15 very costly round-trips). Our hearts are shattered by the undue lengthy and convoluted process of bringing us together in the nation of my ancestors, the land of freedom, the land of Liberty, the land my folks fought and died for since before the inception of our Nation!
Your staff helped me overcome a paper-work entanglement to keep this (however cold and callous) correctly on-track in our legal and lawful processes. We still stand outside the waiting room, after more than three years in the rain. Our sacrifices should not be in vain!
Thank you for fighting for the law that we suffer so desperately to support!
Thank you for your staff’s efficiency and concern!
I will go to the polls and vote for you again; you are one of very few politicians I genuinely believe and trust!
Thank you, Elizabeth Dole!
June 8th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Something to read:
http://www.thomas.loc.gov
Look up any Senator’s voting record.
http://www.numbersusa.com.
Compare the Senator’s voting record on immigration from two years ago to her recent campaign. ….Hmmmmmmmmmm?
who’s covering their butt now?
June 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I just received your letter regarding climate change. I am not for anymore enviormental attempts to control my life, Your support of the previous Leiberman bill is probably a vote killer for me. You voted to saddle the people of this country with a 45 trillion dollar price tag. Even the EPA said it was too expensive. 31000 climitatolgist have stated that there is no science to support this scam and have signed a document. Do you realize that this amount of money could fix Social Security and Medicare and you voted to lay this on us??? Private industry always passes it to us. I beleive if you wish to continue with this you will find that the voters have stated, 65%, no to this price tag.
Please reveiw the science and the lack of support from the voters. The media and the left are the only ones supporting this. Do not become a Rino.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am
One of the Democrats tv ad has two men sitting on a porch complaining. Although this ad is suppose to highlight weakness of Senator Dole, to me it only shows the Democrats approach to today’s problems, “sit on the porch and complain while others are out doing the work”.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:22 am
It is time Republicans stand up for what it means to be a Republican-”Limited government involvement”. So what is the Bush Administration doing by agreeing to bailout Wall Street. If Elizabeth Dole is our Republican Senator, she should stand up to special interests and stand up for Americans. Dole has not stood up for North Carolina at all, we would not even know she was our senator, except for her name on the ballot. Now is the time for Liddy Dole to prove herself to American and stand up and defeat this bailout or tell us why we should help the rich stay rich.