Fellow Drivers, Friends, and Family;
I am asking for your support and help in getting this message to as many people as possible. If you have any questions about these issues please feel free to contact me.
Kris
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I want to suggest a better way for my fellow truckers to protest high fuel prices, high road taxes, the transportation bill, poor roads and low freight rates.
I like to call it GO HOME AND VOTE!
The plan is for all drivers to demand their right to vote at their home polls on November 2, 2004. It is a more productive way to demonstrate how important the trucking industry is to this country and the issues that concern truckers the most.
Most importantly it is not illegal for a citizen to demand the right to vote, blocking interstate traffic is. However, it is a violation of our constitutional rights to bar or impede a citizen’s access to, or exercising of, our right to vote.
As an Owner-Operator I know that my fellow Owner-Operators can do this without serious financial repercussion. It would take two days to get every one home and two days to get everyone loaded back out. I believe that this campaign is important enough that I am recommending deadheading home if need be.
I also believe that the Teamsters can get their union to back them, if they demand their right to vote at their home polls.
I do not advocate one candidate over, the only issue is that this year 6 million truckers go home and vote.
Most importantly, this is not a strike! I would not and do not support a trucking strike!
Thanks,
- Happy Jack -
Payette, ID
