Here is a well-written, simple and effective letter to the Juneau Times in support of Kucinich's candidacy:

Web posted Wednesday, November 19, 2003 My Turn: Why I support Kucinich for president By CAROL ANDERSON I 'm working on the Dennis Kucinich for President campaign because he is the only candidate who has a broad and generous enough vision to bring the United States back on track. Under both Republican and Democratic administrations we have become a nation bent on dominating the world militarily and economically, with diminishing regard for the health, education and prosperity of our own citizens. A Kucinich presidency would end excessive military spending and use the money to provide for the domestic needs of our people. Under Kucinich we would rejoin the world community as a peaceful partner by turning the reconstruction of Iraq over to the U.N., by joining the International Criminal Court, and by ratifying treaties that eliminate land mines and biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. What drew me to Kucinich in the first place was his unwavering opposition to the war in Iraq. He is the only presidential candidate who voted against the Patriot Act and against the Iraq war. While other Democratic candidates say they regretfully voted for $87 million to continue funding the war, Kucinich voted against the appropriation in keeping with his conviction that we must turn away from military thinking and spending. He has promised to repeal the Patriot Act and to create a Department of Peace and Nonviolence once he is elected. Our country and the world desperately need him as a leader. Last week I read with horror an article of international importance buried on the third page of our newspaper. It revealed that the Senate has passed a $401.3 billion defense bill that eliminates a long-standing ban on low-yield nuclear weapons research and authorizes $15 million more for research into the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. As president, Kucinich would not tolerate this. He has pledged to reduce nuclear proliferation, decrease the risk of nuclear war and renew the ABM treaty that Bush opted out of. Kucinich has already introduced legislation to ban weapons from space. I think the world will be a safer and more stable place once he is elected president. The more that I learn about Kucinich and his beliefs, the more I admire him and the stronger my support for his candidacy grows. Kucinich believes that a person's access to higher education should not be based on their parents' economic situation. He will use money diverted from the military to fund free education from preschool through college level for all. Kucinich wants to do what's good for the U.S. and what's good for the rest of the world at the same time. He will repeal NAFTA and withdraw from the World Trade Organization to end the excessive power of multinational corporations with their focus on profit over workers' rights and environmental protections. I respect him greatly for working to keep and create jobs with a living wage in our country and for deploring the practice of moving U.S. factories to countries with cheap labor, no unions, and lax environmental and safety regulations. Everything Kucinich stands for makes such good sense for our country. He will ratify the Kyoto protocol on global warming, require the labeling of genetically engineered food, protect a woman's right to choose, secure equal rights for gays and lesbians, prevent the privatization of Social Security, make Social Security benefits begin at 65, strengthen environmental laws, promote the development of alternative energy, and develop a progressive tax structure that eliminates tax breaks for the wealthy. He has a great vision for the United States and will make us into a country we can all once again be proud of. You can learn more about Dennis Kucinich at www.kucinich.us. • Carol Anderson is a member of Juneau Kucinich for President campaign.

All you Kucinich supporters out there, let's start e-mailing the editors of our local papers with these types of letters. As Bush has proven, if you repeat something often enough, people start believing (and in the case of Dennis K., it's believing the truth).