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Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

5/30/2002

Letters
I just received a great letter from State Rep. Mae Beavers, seeking financial support for her campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Rochelle, the leading Senate champion of the proposal to lay an unconstitutional income tax on the backs of Tennessee workers. She is seeking to raise $250,000 in the next few weeks for her underdog campaign to beat Rochelle, who has been in the Senate nearly forever and is one of the biggest supporters of tax-and-spend big-government policies the state has ever known. He takes huge amounts of PAC money, and recently got the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to probe Bob's bogus claim that Rep. Beavers didn't really reside in her district. It was dirty politics at its worst, which means it was Bob Rochelle at his best.

If Rochelle loses, the income tax is dead for at least a decade. But Mae can't beat Bob without the money to run an effective campaign. I'll be sending Rep. Beavers a check, though I'm not currently able to send a large one. I'd like to send her the maximum, so ... I intend to donate to her campaign and to the campaigns of other anti-income tax candidates across Tennessee, up to the legal campaign contribution limit, 25 percent of the gross revenue of all purchases made now through the end of June at my online store, which sells high-quality, reasonably priced vitamins, nutritional supplements, personal care products and fine skin care products. The formula is simple: shop at my online store with your purchases, and 25 percent of what you spend (not including shipping) will go to Rep. Beavers and other anti-income tax candidates for the state House and state Senate.

You can shop all day at the local mega-discount StuffMart and not a dime will go to help elect candidates who favor limited government and low taxes.

An added bonus to you: your purchases at my online store are sales tax-free.