vote for them.

I received this in my email box from a failed primary challenger today.

Subject: We're not done

Dear Anthony,

I know that your inbox is filling up quickly with fundraising emails. That’s why I wanted to go ahead and let you know now that this is not one of those emails.

I’m not going to ask you to chip in to my campaign now before any “critical deadline,” nor am I going to ask you to help me unlock a triple match. Instead I want to share a personal story. It's a little long, but I think it's very important to let you know what I think truly matters right now.

I came to the United States when I was 17 years old, after my father was kidnapped by the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Although my father was American, and had served in World War II and the Korean War as a U.S. Air Force Pilot, Colombia was the only home I had ever known, and Spanish the only language I was used to speaking.

It didn’t take long for me to realize that the English I had studied in school was not enough to make me fluent, as such, I struggled to get into college. But I was determined to get a college education, and prove that I was more capable than any test score made me appear.

I worked as a waitress to pay for non-credit English courses and worked as hard as I could in my classes to prove that I was worthy of going to college.

After two years, my work to prove myself succeeded, and I was accepted to the University of North Alabama -- you should have heard the combination of a southern accent with my Spanish. I ended my college career on the Dean’s List. I turned the negative of struggling with language into a positive by creating a business around translating languages.

I am sharing my story with you today because I want you to understand why I am not discouraged by our amazingly close primary loss, by just barely 700 votes. In fact, now, more than a month after our primary, I am more motivated than ever to continue our work to elect progressives, both here in Florida and across the country; including working non-stop to ensure Hillary Clinton becomes our next president.

I want our shared progressive values to be represented in our government, just like I wanted a college education all those years ago. I have never been afraid of hard work -- I thrive on it -- but I also know that it is teamwork that will make the dreamwork.

So that’s why I’m asking you now -- will you join me in working to help get strong progressives elected both here in Florida and across the country?

To which I penned this short reply:

Hillary Clinton and the malfeasance conducted by the Democratic Party in it's efforts to ensure that she would win the primary is the reason I just sent in my #demexit. and will never vote for a Democratic Party member again.

The Democratic Party has proven itself to be corrupt from the top down and if any real progressives want my vote they will need to find a third party to run with as the DNC has made it readily apparent that they will block or obstruct any candidate that really pushes for actual progressive change.

So in short, while you may not be done, I am absolutely done with you and the D.N.C.

If you really supported the values you lay claim to you would never find yourself capable of voting for, let alone endorsing Clinton or any war-mongering, fear pushing, regime changing, fracking selling, death penalty supporting so called "Progressive."

You should feel shame for sacrificing your moral positions for party fealty, that is if you ever truly possessed them to begin with.

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