TIME TO CONTRIBUTE! Just to match what McIntyre has in the bank WE WILL HAVE TO RAISE an average of $3000 a day from now until the election! I need your help to get there! Your check today will help establish the base, build the momentum. When you convince a friend, a relative or neighbor to give you multiply what you gave. Please go to our on line donation page at our web site - http://breazeale08.com/support - or write another check and send it to Breazeale for Congress, PO Box 717, Elizabethtown, NC 28337 or host a fundraising reception for the campaign!

Our District is one of just 48 in the country currently held by Democrat Members of Congress where President Bush easily won in 2000 and 2004. The National Republican Party knows that the statistics of this district support a Republican victory. The Democrat led Congress is ineffective and is constantly trying to raise your taxes. We need to win this District and 14 others nationally. Then the House of Representatives will be back in Republican hands!

My refresher training with Airtran Airways on the Boeing 737 is complete! This means that I am back on the campaign trail in NC's District 7! Ashley, our campaign scheduler, is working with WWAY TV in Wilmington for me to appear live on their morning news program. There is a chance I will be on this Tuesday morning, 30 Oct, so please check our website for updates. I am honored to be the keynote speaker at 11am on 7 Nov at the National Guard Armory in Elizabethtown, NC for their Veterans Day service. Come honor the Veterans and you can listen to my speech.

This week a key leader in the Lumbee Tribe based in Robeson County called me, happy that I am challenging McIntyre. The Lumbee Indians are traditionally a key McIntyre base of voters numbering 50,000 people. The Lumbees are a very patriotic tribe with many Veterans. They are taking notice of our campaign and qualifications I have, that McIntyre will never possess, concerning national defense. The Lumbees also realize that it was due to a Republican, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, that their national tribal recognition was advanced. With the support of Veterans, Republicans, Religious Conservatives....it will be GAME OVER for McIntyre's re-election hopes when the Lumbee Tribe gives me their support. I will be working hard on meeting with and convincing tribal leaders in the future.

"Let's bite off more than we can chew...and CHEW IT!" We can win this! Until next week....take care!

Will

PS – a group of Republicans have created a fun way to donate to Republican candidates (including me) at slatecard.com. Not only can you easily donate on line but you can send a message about what issues are most important and you can create your own slate of Republicans you support and share that slate with others.

Breazeale calls for continued payments to wounded warriors

Fayetteville, NC – When a soldier voluntarily re-enlists in the military and receives a bonus for doing so, the government might demand it be repaid if that warrior is wounded in battle and unable to remain in the service. This is the current policy and not everyone agrees it is the right policy.

Congressional Candidate and Iraq Veteran joins NC Rep. Walter Jones and others in calling for an end to the practice. That policy, which also calls for repayment of such bonuses if the service member leaves the service for other reasons prior to the fulfillment of the enlistment term, has no exemption for members unable to continue due to injuries in the line of duty, Breazeale says this should change.

“Say a young soldier re-enlisted, got married and used the bonus to qualify to buy a home for their future family. Then he deploys, is seriously wounded and discharged. Is it then fair for the government to say they are taking back the bonus? I don’t think so!”

Rep. Jones is co-sponsoring HR 3793, also called the Veterans Guaranteed Bonus Act, to make this change.

Breazeale applauds Michael Yon

Independent Iraq War correspondent Michael Yon applauded by Iraq War veteran and Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale

White Lake, NC – Independent Iraq War correspondent Michael Yon, who embeds with various US Army and Marine units in Iraq and is funded by donations from readers of his web site, was applauded by Iraq War veteran and Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale. Calling Yon’s reports “a breath of fresh air” Breazeale commended his efforts while criticizing the main stream media’s reports.

From Michael’s web site: “Telling soldiers' stories from the frontlines is dangerous work that few do as well as Michael Yon. Risking combat injury, intense heat, sand and dust storms, and jarring explosions: the cost is crushing. Most major news organizations can't afford to keep a footprint here, yet Michael Yon does it without corporate sponsors or advertisers. He receives no funding or financial support from Fox News, or any movie, book or television deal. He is entirely reader supported.”



Yon’s latest report comes after a return trip to the US that coincided with General Petraeus’ testimony before the US Congress. “I was at home in the United States just one day before the magnitude hit me like vertigo:” Yon wrote “America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are attached to a string of false assumptions.”

Breazeale echoed these observations calling the news coming from Iraq “distorted, at best, out right fabrication at worst” referring to the fabricated stories published in The New Republic called “Shock Troops” where a soldier, for his own purposes made up stories of atrocities involving himself and other US troops.

“There is real progress being made in Iraq, the US troops are performing professionally and intelligently as they train the Iraqis to take over their own security” said Breazeale who himself returned from his third tour in Iraq this past June. “Much of the area I was in, north of Baghdad, is pacified enough and the locals trained well enough that the Allied troops could start withdrawing from that area and most areas of Iraq where Iraqi Army Divisions have achieved the required strength to defeat the insurgents.”

Citing the recent report by retired Lt. Gen. Sanchez -who reported “As I assess various media entities, some are unquestionably engaged in political propaganda that is uncontrolled,” - Breazeale agrees with Yon saying “the real story in Iraq, the victories being won, the progress being made there, is not being reported to the people in the US and around the world by the media.” He continued “that is why independent reports like those from Michael Yon are so important.”
Will Breazeale is seeking the NC 7th district seat in Congress which represents southeastern North Carolina from Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville to the outskirts of Camp LeJeune near Wilmington.

Did Pelosi threaten McIntyre on SCHIP?

Cross posted from RobBoyce

The Wilmington Star News had an editorial Wednesday Applauding Rep. Mike McIntyre for flip flopping on the SCHIP bill. This is not at all surprising, since the paper is owned by the NY Times.

They do slip into an interesting point when they ask:

It's interesting to wonder what the Democratic leadership might have offered or threatened to get McIntyre to reverse himself. No doubt other Democrats are feeling similar pressure to vote the party line.

What could they promise? Campaign money? He has a million in the bank. Committee Chairmanship - he has one. What indeed could they promise him?

Now threats? - They could certainly threaten him, losing the committee chairmanship, losing other majority party perks? Or could it be what he probably really fears - an opponent in the Primary election?

Read more here and here and here.

More on McIntyre flip flop

MCINTYRE FLIP FLOPS OWN POSITION ON PROTECTING NC TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND PROVIDING TAXPAYER BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS



RALEIGH—Congressman Mike McIntyre signaled that he is going to flip-flop and vote FOR the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) after having voted AGAINST the EXACT same legislation two weeks ago. North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Linda Daves asked why McIntyre had completely reversed his position on protecting the state’s tobacco industry from new taxes and the American people from providing new benefits to illegal immigrants.



“After telling the people of North Carolina that he couldn’t support a dramatic tax on the state’s tobacco industry and after consistently voting to keep that promise -- Mike McIntyre has decided to vote for the exact same bill he voted against a few days ago,” said Daves. “The same exact bill that contained a tax that he called ‘unfair’ and the same exact bill that would relax eligibility standards for illegal immigrants. “

“All I want to know is what changed? Why was it unfair to pick on tobacco and give new taxpayer health benefits to illegal immigrants two weeks ago, and not now?”

On August 1, 2007, McIntyre voted NO to the SCHIP bill

On September 25, 2007, McIntyre voted NO to the SCHIP bill

Following the September vote, McIntyre defended his vote saying it was an “unfair tax, picking on one crop,” and also saying that it was “not fair to the American people” because “illegal immigrants could qualify under the bill's relaxed eligibility standards.”

“Tobacco is a convenient target,” McIntyre said last week. “Unfortunately, here in Washington , it’s a favorite whipping boy.”

McIntyre, chairman of the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development and Foreign Agriculture, said he didn’t mind breaking ranks with the Democratic leadership on the tobacco issue.

“This was an unfair tax, picking on one crop,” he said. (“Tobacco supporters oppose health bill” Fayetteville Observer, October 1, 2007)

A spokeswoman for Etheridge said the Congressman objects to paying for the expansion with a 61-cent increase in the tax on a pack of cigarettes, which he says would place a hardship on tobacco growers and their families. She said Etheridge does not support the bill as written and will not vote for an override.



McIntyre said he has the same concerns, and is also worried that illegal immigrants could qualify under the bill's relaxed eligibility standards. "That's not fair to the American people," he said. (“Bush veto threatens insurance for kids” News & Observer, October 4, 2007)

According to today’s Wilmington Star, “In an about-face, U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre said Monday that he will vote later this week to override the president's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.” (“McIntyre reverses insurance position” Wilmington Star, October 16, 2007)

Said Daves, “Upholding this veto would force the Democrats in Congress to compromise with the President and hopefully, we could get a strong SCHIP bill that doesn’t attack North Carolina ’s economy. Why not support that approach?”

McIntyre flip flops

Wilmington, NC – Rep. Mike McIntyre has indicated he will now vote to over ride a Presidential veto on a bill he originally voted against. President Bush vetoed the bill expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for being to expansive and expensive. McIntyre had said he voted against the bill over the funding mechanism, an increase in the tax on tobacco and because it opens up the program to illegal aliens.

McIntyre now says he will vote to over ride that veto. Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said over the weekend "We'll try very hard to override it. But one thing's for sure: We won't rest..."

Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale today criticizes Rep. Mike McIntyre for “flip-flopping” on the SCHIP expansion bill. “It certainly seems like Pelosi is pulling Mike’s strings and making him dance to her tune” said Breazeale. “He said that it was wrong to target tobacco to pay for the program and also was concerned about it covering illegal immigrants, but it seems toeing the Democrat Party line was more important to him in the end.” Breazeale also noted that a donation was made through his web site today from a Wilmington voter with the comment the donor was “about McIntyre flip-flopping on the SCHIP issue!”

The Republicans opposing the expansion have noted that the pressure to enact the bill coincides with Democrat Presidential candidates clamoring to endorse socialized heath care for all. This view was reinforced when Rep. Rangel, Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, said “It hardly matters that the expansion would be expensive or a step toward socialized health care.” This bill would cost taxpayers $35 billion but the Democrat’s original bill would have totaled $50 billion.

The Democrats need to “flip” 24 members who voted against the bill in order to over ride the President’s veto. This pressure had been predicted in an October 3rd story in the Washington Post. That article predicted “the real pressure will likely fall on the eight Democrats who voted against the program,” including McIntyre.

McIntyre has been pressured also by the left wing organizations such and Moveon.org and Daily Kos which said of McIntyre and other Democrats who voted against the bill – there will “be plenty of eyeballs on these votes.” All across the left side of the “blogosphere” there have been negative comments about McIntyre’s vote, even some comments calling for someone to oppose Mike in the primary.

Republicans, such as Breazeale, have been critical of the attempt by Congressional Democrats to expand the SCHIP program beyond the original purpose of providing affordable health insurance for low income families who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford health insurance for their children. “The Democrats wanted to expand it to include families earning as much as $82,000 per year” said Breazeale “The Republican plan was to increase funding to allow the plan to continue with the original purpose and focus on lower income families – not middle income families. The bill as proposed by the Democrats, now including McIntyre, is just another step toward their goal of socialized medicine”

From Michael Yon

Michael Yon posts from Iraq as an independent embed. Here is his latest:


Achievements of the Human Heart
October 15, 2007
Achievements of the Human Heart

When the 1-4 CAV first arrived to set up COP Amanche, the neighorbood looked beyond hope.

On April 30, 2007, I published the conclusion of a two-part dispatch, Desires of the Human Heart, about the efforts of the 1-4 CAV to transform an abandoned seminary into COP Amanche, an outpost in a Baghdad neighborhood that had been all but deserted after more than a year of sectarian violence. One of the last photographs, shown below, depicted the 1-4 Commander, LTC James Crider, looking out over the compound which his soldiers had managed to make operational over the course of a single weekend. I captioned the photograph with this modestly optimistic thought:

[Read it all]

Will's Weekly Newsletter

Breazeale08 Weekly Newsletter 10/15/2007

Hello from Atlanta Georgia!

Why am I writing from Atlanta? I am here for the next 2 weeks undergoing recertification training on the Boeing 737 I fly for Airtran Airways. This is the first time since returning from Iraq in June 2007 that will operate my 737 at my civilian job. I have used the time since returning home from Iraq to organize our campaign and I am glad I did!



I did manage to squeeze in 2 campaign stops this past week in Fayetteville, the second largest city in our district behind Wilmington. I campaigned at the Military Officers Association of America (of which I am a member) and listened intently to their guest speaker, one of the local leaders of the Base Realignment Commission. Did you realize that when this realignment of our military forces is complete, the only place that will have more Generals in the United States than Fort Bragg will be the Pentagon? Go to www.bracrtf.com for more information. Wouldn't it be nice for our local Congressman to be a military officer who can relate to and instantly work with these Generals for the good of Fayetteville? As the Chief of Protocol for a 3 Star General in Kuwait during 2004, I already have met many of the General Officers in the military.

I also attended the March of Dimes Auction in Fayetteville Thursday with 500 people in attendance. I actually met a lawyer who is a part of a law firm comprised of all Republican lawyers in Fayetteville....imagine that! It continues to be amazing to me the amount of people that just walk up to me and ask: "Are you the Republican and Iraq War Veteran running against McIntyre?" When they find out I am, they always follow up with a handshake and a offer of help for our campaign. Many follow up with a donation check on the spot!

I was interviewed this past week concerning the Democrats over-expansion of the SCHIP program – which was created in the '90's by the GOP to help low income working families insure their kids. The GOP sees a need to increase funding but the Democrats want to extend it to families making over $80,000 a year. McIntyre voted against this legislation, saying he had "concern that Illegal Immigrants would access free health care benefits." Folks, I don't believe this is the REAL reason he voted against the SCHIP....the real reason is because he is trying to save his job. He knows his record of voting with Pelosi's liberal Democrats over 90% of the time before we announced our campaign will hurt him – he thought his job was safe. Now he is looking over his shoulder.

Now that we have the momentum, he is trying to vote conservative because he knows this district is conservative. We are already making a difference by putting pressure on McIntyre! I give straight answers. The reporter recognized this and said, "Will, I can always count on you to be genuine." The truth is that the SCHIP was a backdoor attempt by Nancy Pelosi and her cronies to take the first step towards socialized medicine. I am formulating a plan to help every American (legal Americans) get affordable private health insurance, not a copy of the failed Canadian health care system. I will announce this plan on another aircraft tour of the district in the Spring of 2008. When I am in Congress you will have a Representative who is not afraid to take a leadership role on important issues like affordable Health Care.

As always, please keep the contributions coming in. You can mail them or just donate over our website with your credit card. I also ask each of you to host a house party for our campaign and invite your friends and neighbors. I will be there to listen, talk and raise money. Just call Ashley at 910-409-7023 to schedule your date! Or on our Campaign site aWILLtoWIN.com.

For God and Country

White Lake, NC – Congressional candidate Will Breazeale said here today “I am
appalled by the news that Speaker Pelosi agrees with the decision of the
Capital Architect refusing to allow the word God on a certificate issued with
a flag purchased by an Eagle Scout to honor the scout’s grandfather.” He went
on to say “The specific phrase, ‘In honor of my grandfather Marcel Larochelle,
and his dedication and love of God, country, and family’, is hardly a
subversive attempt to undermine the foundation of the nation.”

Very similar phrases can be found in many places that are hardly subversive or
political in nature. Take the American Legion: the Legion’s constitution
begins: "For God and Country, we associate ourselves together. . ."

The Boy Scouts’ oath: “To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout
Law”

The Girl Scouts: “On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country, To help
people at all times, And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

The North Carolina Constitution : “We, the people of the State of North
Carolina, grateful to Almighty God…”

The Declaration of Independence: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them...”

Breazeale agrees with the more than 100 members of Congress who have signed onto
a letter from Ohio Congressman Michael Turner to Pelosi calling for a change in
the policy and calls on Rep. Mike McIntyre, who voted to elect Speaker Pelosi,
to sign on as well.

According to Rep. Turner members of Congress vet the appropriateness of messages
constituents request with the flags, and their discretion should be
sufficient.

"We have the responsibility for these common sense issues that might arise with
flag inscriptions and this one is basic," Turner said. "The architect has
decided the word 'God' is offensive. This rule should not be allowed to
stand."

Breazeale Donates to March of Dimes

Wilmington, NC – Airline pilot Will Breazeale of White Lake attended the March of Dimes Celebrity Chef Auction at the Wilmington Hilton Hotel Thursday night. He donated a sightseeing flight of the Wilmington area to the auction to help them raise money for their effort to reduce premature births.

A three time veteran of the Iraq Wars and no stranger to volunteering for worthy causes Breazeale said “This is just such an important event, helping to find ways to prevent premature births, I’m proud that I could do my small part in the effort to raise money”. As a member of the Angel Flight Network of Southeastern North Carolina Will also volunteers his time, money and flying skills to fly critically ill patients from Southeastern North Carolina to destinations all over the Eastern United States for medical treatment and testing.

The evening saw several hundred local people come together to sample the excellent food prepared by local chefs and to bid for the donated items. The wonderful food prompted Breazeale to comment “If these people had been cooking for us in Iraq, I’d have had to get my body armor let out!”

“My goal of raising ten cents per foot of elevation was slightly optimistic” he said, “ but if I hold the ceiling to one mile it will be close.”

During the social hour before the auction, the people attending got to find out from Breazeale about his run for Congress in the 7th district, which includes Wilmington.

Congressional Candidate sees Iraq War Plan validated

Congressional Candidate sees Iraq War Plan validated

Fayetteville, NC – Three tour Iraq war veteran Will Breazeale, candidate for Congress in North Carolina’s 7th district, and a major in the Army Reserve, said today he is encouraged by the report that Prime Minister Gordon Brown believes Iraq could assume security control of southern Basra province from British forces within two months. This dovetails exactly with what Breazeale has been saying since his return from Iraq earlier this year.
Breazeale’s plan proposes would turn over the security protection duties for sections of Iraq to the Iraqis as the local forces are deemed ready. Province by province, city by city. He envisions reducing the overall US and Allies presence there to roughly half the current deployment, with 30,000 manning a permanent base in northern Iraq and another 40,000 remaining temporarily in Baghdad only until the stability and security of their government is achieved. Breazeale said “this plan puts pressure on the Iraqi Security Forces to defend their own country to the maximum extent possible.”
Breazeale said “I believe that as the new free government in Iraq grows stronger and more stable, these other governments in the region are seeing the value to themselves of a stable, free, non aggressive neighbor”.
Breazeale cited a Reuters’ report from Oct.1, indicating many other Islamic countries like Indonesia, Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to send ambassadors to Baghdad. Iraq's foreign minister Hoshiyar Zebari is quoted as saying "We have been able to discern a perceptible shift in favor of Iraq by many countries which until now had been much less engaged. These impressions were confirmed during meetings last week at the United Nations in New York."
Breazeale concluded saying, “the evidence keeps coming in that the surge is working, the US troops in Iraq are doing their jobs well and they will be returning home victorious”.
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Illegal Immigrants to steal citizens’ right to equal representation

“Illegal Immigrants to steal citizens’ right to equal representation” says Congressional Candidate

White Lake, NC – Commenting on a report from UPI, Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale, seeking the 7th District of North Carolina, said “Illegal immigrants will be taking away representation from American Citizens after the next census.” The districts of the 435 members of Congress will be redrawn sometime after the 2010 census and that plan will be distorted by the millions of illegal immigrants, according to the article Breazeale referred to.

Because the number of districts is fixed, an influx of people in any one area as determined by the census will result in that area being assigned more Representatives than areas without such an influx. Although these people are not legally in the country, they will be counted by the census. The current ratio is about one Representative for every half million people. “If 12 million illegal aliens are counted that means 24 districts will have fewer American Citizens than the average. This comes down to illegal aliens stealing representation from people who are here legally,” said Breazeale.

“This is just one more reason”, he said “that we must immediately resolve the illegal immigration situation, because it will only get worse the longer it is allowed to continue.”

Someone named Fredrick, commenting on the UPI article wrote "Illegals can vote in North Carolina. All they need is a drivers license and they hand [sic] that out like crazy. La Raza recently had a voting drive and this will definitely help us Democrats in the next election."

Breazeale found it “simply incredible” that someone claiming to be a Democrat would be bragging that encouraging millions of people invade our country and steal votes from legal citizens!

Information on Will Breazeale’s campaign can be found at www.Breazeale08.com

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Link to UPI story referenced in release: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/02/illegals_could_cost_congressional_seats/6221/