Greetings,

It’s my 51st birthday today—a good age to capture 51% of the votes!

My request of you on my birthday is simple: become an inaugural member of the Ten Squad. Ten Squad members will contribute $10 and pledge to try to raise $100 for our Campaign by raising another $10 from nine of their friends. Over the next 10 days, we want to raise $100,000 from 1,000 people. It’ll be pretty simple if you all pitch in.

Our Campaign is sending a message that North Carolinians are tired of professional politicians and want real people from the real world with fresh voices in the Senate. This Campaign is not beholden to special interests and powers-that-be, for we know that (as my mother always said) “if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.”

When I’m elected as your next United States Senator on November 4th 2008, I’ll be going to Washington to represent all the people of this state, regardless if they supported me or not. That’s not only what I’ll be elected to do, it’s the right thing to do.

Get started as a member of the Ten Squad right contribute $10 and then email or call your friends, family and associates to do the same.

Thanks to all of you for your support.