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So Whats so different about us REFORM people...
For far too long, those who have been fortunate enough to find themselves with the responsibility of being our representatives have often times grown accustomed to their appointments and often times have found that it is far better for themselves to keep a low profile and support positions that, unfortunately, ignore pressing issues of concern. As a Kansan and an American I have noticed many developments that are occuring all around us that are troubling both on a State wide and a National level. One of the true joy's in my life is my hobby as a journalist. For many years it has been my goal in life to expose problems and offer solutions. I believe that a wise thing to do is to interview people who have had success with various problems and then listen to those who have "been there and done that" .
I believe this process has been circumvented for a long time by a motivation to retain office at any cost. I want to break that mold.

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Jason Littlejohn
Candidate for Kansas
State Representative District 45
Reform Party of Kansas

Hope for OUR Future

- Pressing Issues -
- Real Solutions -

Vote Littlejohn For
KS State Representative
District 45

Cities: Lecompton and Lawrence (part)
Townships: Kanwaka, Lecompton, Wakarusa (part)

http://www.VoteKansas.org/jason.littlejohn

I have lived in Kansas for 25 years, and I have lived in Lawrence for about 10 years.

I attended school in Pomona. I went to The University of Kansas in Summer 1988. I participated in the Summer Honors Institute. The following year I graduated from Pomona.

I attended K.U. for two years as an aerospace engineering major, and I then joined the U.S. Navy to see the world.

I attended a special military school known as the Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, Fl, involving a lot of math, chemistry, nuclear physics, and metallurgy. Graduating, I became a third class nuclear machinist mate, E-4.

My travels overseas gave me new insight into how people really are outside the U.S. news media. I was in Spain, Turkey, France, Greece, Italy, Israel, The United Arab Emirates, and Puerto Rico.

I returned to K.U. for 2 years in journalism. I began my work in radio on KJHK 90.7.

I wrote a newsletter for non-traditional students and was elected a student senator.

In 1999 I left K.U. and started work at the Lawrence Energy Center power plant. I have been employed with Westar Energy for 7 years. I am also a volunteer for the Confined Space / High Angle rescue team, where members learn to rescue people from hazardous places. I am a member of the IBEW union local 304 and a life time member of VFW post 852.

I am a member of the Lawrence farmers' market. Our family has a small fruit farm and U-Pick operation south of Ottawa. Please visit us sometime at:
http://www.HappyHensBrand.com/

I do a talk show called “Lives in the Balance” on KCXL 1140 AM with news and interviews. We discuss issues that concern us all: energy, illegal immigration, eminent domain abuses, out of control government growth, and farming.

Real Issues – Real Solutions

Education: I believe that parents ultimately have the GOD given right to raise their children the way that they see fit rather than as the STATE sees fit. Parents should be able to use their tax contributions to educate their kids where and how they want. Period.

Government: According to sources at the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy, Kansas has a rapidly expanding government that I believe is growing far faster than is necessary, putting other needed services at risk such as our infrastructure.

Labor: Our nation is already seeing the profound effects of uncontrolled illegal immigration. This places downward pressure on wages and increases social costs. We need to protect our borders and prevent the illegal hiring practices that not only dehumanize those here illegally but also makes life miserable for those citizens struggling in an environment of falling wages.
Energy: Having experience in power generation I believe that we have the responsibility to seek out sources of energy that are better for the environment and beneficial for all of us. I support a mixed energy strategy that incorporates renewable forms with modern improvements like nuclear gas turbines and coal gasification, along with improvements in efficiency.

Trade: NAFTA is an absolute disaster: it has dislocated 1.5 million farmers from Mexico, who are now here. It has increased our trade deficits to obscene and unsustainable levels, and it has allowed corporations to become rich beyond their wildest dreams, while you and I barely scrape by on less and less. I would support the abolition of NAFTA and CAFTA and work on trying to re-establish home grown industries. I would like to see our state contract with those small struggling Kansas and US manufacturers for goods instead of the State owned prison systems that make our goods in places like China. Also we should help reduce the immigration problem by encouraging the development of Mexico's energy infrastructure. It would be the start of a real economy and also give us an alternative source for oil and gas. This can be done for a relatively modest sum, at least compared to the hundreds of billions that we have spent in the middle east.

Medical care: I believe in the creation of an advisory panel of medical professionals that desire to offer their patients alternative treatment methods that they agree with because of their past experience. Why should the FDA dictate a person's health choices, especially when there is such a cozy relationship between the FDA and big Pharma? It's simply not right.
Thank you for taking the time to read this flyer and become familiar with my campaign issues.

Please vote on paper ballots for me, Jason Littlejohn, and I will vote for you in Topeka.

Kansas Reform Needs Your Vote!

Solving Real Problems in KS

As a Kansan and an American I have noticed many developments that are occurring all around us that are troubling both in Kansas and nationally. For many years it has been my goal in life to expose problems and offer solutions. As State Representative, I will offer my constituents in district 45 and in Kansas some hope for OUR future. I want to change things for the better, but I need your help to do it.

Leadership – Not Politics

Kansas is suffering at the hands of politicians and lobbyists that are serving themselves. The issues I am addressing and the solutions I am proposing are considered “political suicide” by career politicians, and that is why things in this state have gotten so bad. It is long past time for the politics of personal gain to be thrown out by Kansas voters. Voters are now seeing that it is time for pro-Kansas leadership in Topeka. Jason Littlejohn is your advocate to stand up to both the corporate lobbyists and the federal encroachments that entice our representatives to negotiate away our personal freedoms.

How You Can Help

For those of you interested in helping to spread my vision for Kansas, here are a few ways to help:

  1. Register and Vote! This year you CAN make a difference.
  2. Send e-mails to everyone you know and tell them about this website. Encourage them to vote as well. In order for this campaign to be successful, it will require the efforts of thousands of Kansans working together to spread the word.
  3. Walk your neighborhood and tell them about this campaign and the issues that I am trying to address.
  4. Call your local newspapers, TV stations, and radios stations and encourage them to cover this campaign.
  5. Consider becoming a key leader in this campaign. We need people to help with public relations, fund raising, and organizing meetings. If you are interested in becoming active in this campaign, contact me.
  6. If you would like me to speak to your community group, church, civic organization, etc. then feel free to contact me:
    jason.littlejohn@votekansas.org

Donations

For those who want to make monetary contributions, make your checks payable to "Jason Littlejohn for State Representative" and mail them to the address below:

511 Wisconsin St.
Lawrence, KS 66044

Anyone contributing more that $150 dollars must write their occupation on their check for reporting purposes. There is a limit of $500 per person to the campaign.
I will not accept contributions from lobbyists.

Thank you,

J. Littlejohn

]]> Aaron Russo's - America: From Freedom to Fascism. http://www.votekansas.org/reform/f/node/93 2006-08-03T02:04:02-06:00 2006-08-03T22:56:09-06:00 jason littlejohn America: From Freedom to Fascism is a sad, but true look into the dark abyss that has become the national landscape of modern America. A land of corrupt leaders and the lives they destroy through subterfuge, coercion and violence.

]]> I had the opportunity on the night of the 28th of July to partake in the showing of Aaron Russo's latest movie project entitled America : From freedom to fascism. I sat through a close to 2 hour experience that left me with a multitude of feelings ranging from disgust, anger, saddness and humor. The movie began by asking a simple question. Please show me in the law where it states that we are required to pay an income tax. Now one might think that this is just the tired rant of the "Pay no Taxes" crowd out there, but as I watched this film I began to understand that the wretched condition that we find ourselves in today comes not from the income tax system, but an environment that has developed and flourished within our own government. Our nation, just like many nations before it, is suffering under the convergence of many elements that are forging the iron shackles that are now rapidly turning our once proud "city on a hill" republic into a rough beast, hardly discernable as it clinks, clangs and claws its way towards the historical ash heap. The principal element that seems to cement all others together though is our unfortunate apathy. This movie, unlike so many others that engage in the fatally flawed logic of which Thomas Nast caricature would be better equipped to run the country, leaves the tired old Democratic vs. Republican mantra where it belongs, in the equally flawed corporate owned alphabet soup news agencies. Aaron encourages its viewers to consider that the ultimate blame falls on you and me, because as he says in the movie, we should stop being good Republicans and Democrats and start being good Americans and reassert ourselves in the affairs of this republic and I certainly couldn't agree more. I give Aaron Russo's American: From freedom to fascism two thumbs up. Take a friend, better yet take a van load of people to see this movie and then get out there and vote for those same like minded people while you still can come this November.

]]> NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE PART http://www.votekansas.org/reform/f/node/46 2006-06-27T22:26:26-06:00 2006-06-27T23:12:09-06:00 jason littlejohn ACT NOWToday we are seeing the results of our nation throwing away the sound doctrine that has served us so well, for so long. Today I see a nation where many of our children are having a difficult time judging right from wrong, a nation that my parents don't even recognize, a nation that has dramatically changed in just one generation.Your care and concern is needed desperately. We are at a crossroads in our nation. Now is the time for good people to come to the aid of their country.IF YOU WANT REFORM VOTE REFORM.

]]> WHY AM I HERE?Not so long ago there was a collection of individuals, 56 of them if I recall correctly, who came together from 13 colonies. These concerned individuals knew that their very existence was under attack by forces that did not share their ideas of what constituted a fair and representative government.They believed that the loose confederation of colonies should pull together and unite behind some universal ideas that simply reiterated that government should be of the people, by the people and for the people and that the cement that held this concept together was that a higher authority, even higher than the British crown, mandated that man should be entitled with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.Today we are seeing the results of our nation throwing away the sound doctrine that has served us so well, for so long. Today I see a nation where many of our children are having a difficult time judging right from wrong, a nation that my parents don't even recognize, a nation that has dramatically changed in just one generation.We have seen the results of our highly acclaimed two party system. We have a national debt that is in the tens of trillions of dollars - just ask Representative Ron Paul from Texas. We have wages falling behind rising inflation. We have a federal reserve system that now refuses to tell us how much money they're printing up every day (just before they refused to tell us, it was in the billions of dollars every day). We have an ever increasing amount of our goods (clothes, electronics, oil, food, etc) and services coming from the third world, and yet their citizens who manufacture these products are fleeing those countries to come here. We have the pictures of our men and women coming home in body bags all the while being told that the sacrifice is worth it. We have the pictures of those whom we trust the country to, people like Mr. Rumsfeld, shaking the hands of dictators while selling them weapons of mass destruction. We have our elected leaders meeting behind closed doors and forging ahead with a Pan-American union , the evisceration of the people's sovreignty.Right now our own government, republican and democrat alike, is planning on merging the currencies of the United States with the rest of the nations of North and South America. Right now our country is being sold a piece at a time to foreign interests. Right now our highly respected leaders are silently working on a NAFTA super highway that will connect shipping ports in southern Mexico with inland "smart ports" like Kansas City. This will effectively further place more strain on good working Americans by eliminating tens of thousands of long shoremen and possibly hundreds of thousands of teamsters. I suppose these are more of the jobs that Americans simply don't want to do.Honestly ask yourself this question: Is it wise to allow trucks into our nation unchecked, to drive thousands of miles before they stop somewhere like Kansas City? Those tasked with maintaining our security at our ports have already admitted that they can only check a small percentage of the containers coming in.I could continue ad nauseum about how broken our system truly is. Your care and concern is needed desperately. We are at a crossroads in our nation. Now is the time for good people to come to the aid of their country. IF YOU WANT REFORM VOTE REFORM.

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