Thank you to our volunteers and voters

November 5, 2008

Thank you to all our volunteers and voters who supported us through campaign 2008.

Although victory was not won, the Green Party of Ohio and progressive ideas made gains across the state last night.

First, Tim Kettler and myself were the first two Green Party of Ohio Candidates to be officially recognized with a party label in the state of Ohio.

Second, in 2006,  when the Green Party of Ohio ran candidates for Governor and Secretary of State, we gathered 2% of the vote.

Last night Mr. Kettler and myself doubled that total by gaining roughly 5% of the vote in our races despite the long coat tails of President-Elect Obama.

A wave in the ocean starts as a small ripple, and builds momentum with time. This is what we are seeing with the Green Party in Ohio. We are growing and we will become a mighty Green Wave one day.

Americans want universal health care. Americans want clean renewable energies, and Americans want to see less lobbyists buying American politicians.

Again, thank you to all who supported our campaign. May God bless you.

Sincerely,

Dennis Spisak-Green Party Candidate for Congress-6^th District

It’s Election Day! For New Jobs, Vote For Dennis Spisak For Congress!

From:

Struthers, OH

Office Sought:

U.S. Congress-6th District

Offices previously held:

Struthers City Board of Education 2006-present

Dennis's reasons for seeking office:

I am running for Congress because I believe we must send a representative to Washington who will address the issues facing regular citizens, not lobbyists or corporation PACs. My campaign will focus on the issues that Ohioans care about: affordable health care, economic fairness, quality public education, and bringing renewable energy manufacturing jobs to the valley. I am not afraid to call for Health Care for All Ohioans, economic justice, and nothing less than a renewal of America's sense of community and promise of equal opportunity for all citizens.

Dennis's qualifications:

As a Board of Education member, I was able to help take the district out of state fiscal control and debt and return the system to financial health in 2 years with the help of my fellow board members. Also as a Struthers Board of Education member, I worked with the Save our Stadium Committee and the Board of Education to tear down and rebuild the football stadium without using additional taxpayer money. As principal of Southern Local High School in Columbiana County, my school was named a “School of Promise” by the Ohio Department of Education for 2003/2004 school year. I also received a State Improvement Incentive Award for $50,000 for an 83% improvement on state proficiency tests.

Where Dennis stands on the issues:

1. Bringing green renewable solar and wind energy manufacturing jobs and companies to the 6th district. The Renewable Energy Policy Project's latest report, Component Manufacturing: Ohio's Future in the Renewable Energy Industry, produced for the Apollo Alliance, utilizes industrial codes from census data and a state of the art software program to identify the scope of potential job growth that would occur in Ohio. "The report states that Mahoning County is one of the top 20 counties in Ohio with the greatest potential for economic growth by building alternative energy companies and factories." said Spisak. "The report suggests that Mahoning County could gain 93 million dollars to its economy and provide for 592 jobs in the solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal industries." 2. Funding A Health Care for All Americans Act where the only 4 no's you will hear are: no co-payments, no deductables, no premiums, and no one excluded. 3. Ending lobbyists and corporatation PACs control over Congress. Last year, incumbent Charlie Wilson received over $450,000 in PAC money. Mr. Wilson legislates for corporations. As a Green Party candidate, I pledge not to receive any lobbyist or PAC Monies and instead work for the average American instead of corporate greed.

Dennis's priorities if elected:

Bringing green renewable solar and wind manufacturing jobs and companies to the 6th district. My proposing tax incentives for consumer use, tax incentives for companies to relocate here, and by working with private industry to showcase what our district has to offer in the way the way of labor, resources, and transportation.

The Apollo Alliance and the clean energy, good jobs economy we are working so hard to help build represents hope made real and visible. As Apollo Chairman Phil Angelides wrote this week on our blog and in an op-ed we are circulating across the nation: "Clean energy isn't a mirage. It's the fastest growing industrial sector in the United States. It is already generating $25 billion a year in sales and revenue, is growing at 30 percent a year."

He added: "Imagine the growth in jobs, technology, equipment, suppliers, and productivity if the United States actually treated the development of clean energy as a national economic priority. And consider just as seriously the remarkable benefits to America's security, environment, economic stability, and communities that would be realized by keeping at home the nearly $400 billion that we send each year to foreign nations, many hostile to our interests, to import their oil. It's time for America to quit bailing and to start building."

As the Apollo Alliance has noted on its Web site, in our public events, in reports, and in the just completed six-state roll out of The New Apollo Program, there is no time to spare. The old economy is sinking. A new one, gradually emerging, needs to dramatically gain speed and influence.

How certain of we of that point? This certain. On September 4, a Thursday, federal Transportation Secretary Mary Peters called the heads of every state transportation department to alert them to an unusual circumstance in the history of American mobility. The Highway Trust Fund was empty. Two days later, on Saturday, the Fed announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were close to collapse. The very next day, Sunday, the Fed announced a rescue plan for the two largest mortgage banks in the country.

Though Congress bailed out the mortgage banks and soon after passed a bill that partially filled the trust fund, the import of what occurred was not lost on the world's credit and stock markets. It's also coming into clearer focus for the country.

What happened was that the federal financial institutions that supported highway construction and suburban home development, arguably the central drivers of America's prosperity over the last 60 years, were insolvent. America's drive through economy – reflected in $4 gasoline, falling home values, record rates of foreclosure, a Minnesota bridge collapse – is nearing its economic and fiscal limits. The Highway Trust Fund itself, dependent on gas tax revenues, emptied because Americans responded to what was unfolding around them by spending so much less time behind the wheel.

Yet just as significant as the momentous events of early September in Washington is the question that followed. What's next for America? And the answer to that is the resounding call for changing how America's economy literally runs itself, the transition the Apollo Alliance anticipated when it was founded earlier this decade and which is now one of the salient choices in this election – whether America is ready to invest significant public resources in the environmentally and economically useful switch from fossil fuel to clean energy.

As Phil Angelides writes: "Our current economic crisis has reminded us once again that financial engineering and manipulation are not substitutes for long-term investment and job creation. People need jobs and relief from high energy costs. Our dependence on oil is putting the nation's security at risk. Foreign competitors are moving rapidly to exploit the opportunities offered by clean energy. We can seize the opportunity to become the leader of a new global green economy. We're Americans. Let's do it."

ELECT DENNIS SPISAK TO CONGRESS-6^TH DISTRICT TODAY!!!!!

ELECT!!!!
DENNIS SPISAK FOR CONGRESS

Green Party Candidate for Ohio’s 6^th District

The ONLY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE

Running against a Conservative Democrat and Republican!

Renewable Energy Green/Blue Collars Jobs

Single-Payer Affordable Healthcare

Cast your Vote For Dennis Spisak For Congress (Part 2)

The Only Progressive Candidate for the 6^th District of Ohio

November 3, 2008

Name Dennis Spisak

Party Green Party of Ohio

Education B.S.C. from Ohio University 1981, M.A. from The

Ohio State University 1989

Qualifications for Office

Qualifications for Office:=2 03 years Board of

Education Member- Struthers City Schools

23 years experience as a teacher and principal.

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1. What should the federal government do, if anything, to ensure that every American has health coverage?

I believe we should have a single-payer universal

health care system for all Americans with no co-payments,

no deductibles, no premiums, and no

one excluded from coverage. Since everyone will

have health care coverage, people can choose and

see their own doctors for routine care and

encourages doctors to practice medicine of the

highest quality. I believe health care should be

secure. Americans should no longer have to worry

about losing coverage if they lose or change their

job. Employers should no longer have to worry

about the ever-increasing costs of health care.

2. What Steps do you propose to strengthen the U. S. Economy?

We need a buildup. We need to get back to

making stuff, based on real engineering not just

financial engineering. We need to launch an E.T.,

energy technology, revolution with the same

urgency as this bailout. Otherwise, all we will have

done is bought ourselves a respite, but not a

future. The exciting thing about the energy

technology revolution is that it spans the whole

economy — from green-collar construction jobs to

high-tech solar panel designing jobs. Our No. 1

resource is our people. Let’s put people back to

work — retrofitting and repowering America.

Elect Dennis Spisak to Congress-6^th District

ELECT!!!!
DENNIS SPISAK FOR CONGRESS

Green Party Candidate for Ohio’s 6^th District

The ONLY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE

Running against a Conservative Democrat and Republican!

Renewable Energy Green/Blue Collars Jobs

Single-Payer Affordable Healthcare

Solar Power/Wind Power/Geothermal Energy

Cast your Vote for Dennis Spisak for Congress (Part 1)

November 2, 2008

Why cast a vote for you?

Spisak: "I am not afraid to call for health care for all Ohioans, economic justice and nothing less than a renewal of America's sense of community and promise of equal opportunity for all citizens." Spisak said the area's representative must address "the issues facing regular citizens, not lobbyists or corporation PACs."

What is the most pressing need for the district, and what can you do to see that this need is met?

Spisak: "Democrats and Republicans legislate for corporations. I would legislate for the American citizen. The Democrats and Republicans got $120 million from CEOs and corporations last year. Incumbent Congressman Charlie Wilson got over $450,000 from lobbyists and corporate PACs last year. Who does Charlie Wilson truly represent in Washington? The time has come for a candidate that cares less about corporations and more about you. I am that candidate that is concerned about regular Americans and will make this country a better legacy for our children."

Spisak said he will not accept lobbyist or corporate PAC money if elected.

How can you bring new jobs to the district?

Spisak: "I believe our area can become an energy corridor except I disagree with the way Mr. Wilson wants to do it."

Spisak accused Wilson of being paid $18,000 by the coal industry to support the plant.

"Burning coal-to-liquid fuel is arguably the dirtiest, most expensive energy gamble we could take. The truth is that liquid coal is plagued with economic and environmental downsides from the time the coal is mined until long after the liquid is removed from the coal," he said.

Spisak said nearly twice the global warming emissions are emitted by liquid coal than by gasoline and huge inputs of energy are required to make coal into a synthetic fuel.

He also said replacing just 10 percent of the nation's transportation fuels with liquid coal would require a 40 percent increase in coal mining, which would jeopardize long-term prospects for coal including its use as a major electricity source.

"I believe in building an energy corridor based upon renewable energy companies and manufacturers who will build and produce green jobs such as solar and wind component plants. Blue-collar jobs - to put our people back to work," he said.

Spisak described the New Apollo program (put together by the Apollo Alliance, a group of business, labor, environmental and community groups) which calls for a $500 billion over 10 years with the potential to create more than 5 million green energy jobs.

"It will accelerate the development of the nation's vast clean energy resources and move us toward energy security, climate stability and economic prosperity," Spisak said. "And it will transform America into the global leader of the new green economy."

Elect Dennis Spisak to Congress on November 4^th!

ELECT!!!!
DENNIS SPISAK FOR CONGRESS

Green Party Candidate for Ohio’s 6^th District

The ONLY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE

Running against a Conservative Democrat and Republican!

Renewable Energy Green/Blue Collars Jobs

Single-Payer Affordable Healthcare

Solar Power/Wind Power/Geothermal Energy

Spisak(G) U.S. Congress: “Charlie Wilson Skips Second Debate. Why is Charlie

Afraid to Debate Us?

October 9,2008

The Washington County League of Women Voters today announced that Charlie Wilson would not be attending the candidate’s debate at Marietta College on October 22. Mr. Wilson also refused 5 dates to attend the Athens County League of Women Voters Debates earlier this month. Why is Charlie Wilson afraid to debate? Is it :

A. In two years, Charlie has passed only ONE BILL Through Congress:

. H.RES.892 : Expressing support for designation of a "National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day".
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Charles A. [OH-6] (introduced 12/18/2007)      Cosponsors (74)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 4/29/2008 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

That’s right, Charlie passed a bill to pat himself on the back for being a Funeral Director.

Charlie Wilson has taken over $460,000 from lobbyists and corporate PACs last year.

Charlie Wilson legislates for corporations; he doesn’t fight for you and me.

B. Could it be Charlie Wilson is in the back pockets of Electric Company and Coal Company lobbyists and PACs? The Coal Industry has given Charlie over $18,000 since he got to Washington in 2007.

Charlie Wilson is a member of the Science and Technology Committee and there serves on the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
 
As a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, Congressman Wilson has been tapped to be a part of the Blue Dog Innovation, Capital Markets, and Financial Services Task Force. The task force will focus on developing policies that encourage capital formation and investment in America's next generation technologies and the industries.

Then why does Charlie Wilson fail to mention any renewable energy technologies for the future of America except for turning Coal into Liquid Fuel?

Why is Charlie Wilson not on the forefront of solar power, wind turbines, and geothermal renewable energy if he sits on two Technology and Innovation Committees?

Could it be Charlie Wilson is in the back pockets of Electric Company and Coal Company lobbyists and PACs? The Coal Industry has given Charlie over $18,000 since he got to Washington in 2007.

C. ALL OF THE ABOVE.

If Charlie Wilson is afraid to debate his 2 opponents, can we really then expect him to debate anybody on the floor of Congress?

ELECT!!!!
DENNIS SPISAK FOR CONGRESS

Green Party Candidate for Ohio’s 6^th District

The ONLY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE

Running against a Conservative Democrat and Republican!

Renewable Energy Green/Blue Collars Jobs

Single-Payer Affordable Healthcare

Solar Power/Wind Power/Geothermal Energy

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Spisak for Congress

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Struthers, Ohio 44471

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