Donna and I were special guests yesterday evening at a coffee hosted by Larry and Vicki Friedline, two wonderful people putting hands and feet to their convictions. About 20 of their friends and neighbors took valuable time from their evening to spend it with us and we are grateful. They were all very supportive, both with volunteering and contributions.

Larry and Vicki took it upon themselves to set this up, arrange for the desserts, supply the coffee, and ensure people came even in the midst of a vacation. Wow! What an encouragement for Donna and me. We need you join with us in such an event. The coffees are a fun, informal way for your family, friends and neighbors to get to know us and find out how they can join our cause of electing an everyday American to Congress to start replacing the career politicians who have stopped listening to us. Just give us a call and we will set a mutually agreeable date.

Donna did a great presentation on the simple ways folks can fit into their busy lives that will contribute to victory in November. Handing our cards to their friends, asking them to put up yard signs, passing out the contrast sheets, simply saying to someone in the grocery store line as you wear the t shirt or hand them a card, “I believe in this guy. He is a good man and I think he would be a good Representative for all of us. I am going to vote for him and I hope you will, too.”

Having your car wear our bumper strip for the next 78 days to raise name recognition and as a personal endorsement, forwarding our emails to everyone you know whether in or out of the district – they may contribute a small amount or know somebody in the 5^th District you don’t. Send a letter to the editor or add a comment to a blog mentioning my campaign by name and why you support me – keep it positive and focused on the change we will bring to politics in the District and in DC. Call or email the radio and TV media asking them to cover this race, that you want to know more about both Cleaver and me. This includes national folks like Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin and emphasize for them that this is the kind of person they are urging to enter politics, a regular person with traditional beliefs vs a career, machine supported, liberal politician.

Get the shirt. Wear the shirt. Its message has made such an impact over the last two years. Phone a friend. Come up with an idea to raise the name recognition and support of the campaign we haven’t thought of and go for it!

These ways to help will cost little or nothing and will make a big difference come November 4^th. Now is the time to start.

Politics must change. We are the change.

Donna and I have been encouraged by the response to our call for you and your families and friends to take steps to help our common cause of electing a voice from the people to the halls of power in Congress. We have discovered there are thousands who want to put their hands and feet to work in ensuring victory in November who just need a way to start the work. The single most effective way is personal outreach to those around you – the aforementioned family and friends and also co-workers, those you stand in line with at the grocery store or next to you at the gas pump.

It is a simple act of great consequence to hand them my card and say in your own way I think this guy would represent all of us well in Congress, he is a good man and I personally endorse him. The power of a personal endorsement will not be shaken by any negative ads our opponent will do as the day of election looms. Calling is the other way to reach any one you know with the same message. Get out those address books and start dialing! Ask them to call 10 of their friends and so on. For that matter, if when you hand out our card to a person, they respond enthusiastically, ask them if they will hand out cards to some of their friends. That is how we will win.

We have well over 100,000 votes to find to win our November election and our voters will not necessarily be McCain or Obama, Hulshof or Nixon, or any other candidate’s voters. Our voters will be the regular people, be they Republican or Democrat or Independent, that are fed up that Congress is taking a vacation for over a month while we all suffer in our pocketbooks from high gas prices and a soft economy. They will be the over 70% of 5^th District Americans that want traditional marriage protected and our borders secured. Any voter is potentially our voter because our cause to get a regular guy elected to Congress so we all have a voice rather than just the special interests resonates with almost everyone…except those special interests.

This is a big pie to eat, but if everyone will take a bite we will get it done together. We have cards by the thousands you are welcome to have as long as you will get them into another person’s hands. Remember, there is no calvary coming over the hill to win this battle. It is up to us. Donna and I are giving our all and are committed to be so until November 4th. Your efforts will be appreciated.

Be bold. Reach out and take back our District one contact at a time so we as believers in traditional American values can take back our country. We are all Americans first. Let’s work together to make it happen.

If you are able, go now to www.turkforcongress.com and make a contribution of $10 or $20. Send a check today to Jacob Turk for Congress, P.O. Box 2097, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063. Take action now.

Politics must change. We are the change.