Primary Election Day is TODAY!! VOTE QUOC VAN FOR CONGRESS!!

I wrote this blog a few weeks back but have reposed to remind people that today is primary election day!! If you are a registered Democrat vote Quoc Van today and put the power back in the hands of the people!!

Meet Quoc Van. He is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida’s 8th District. You may have seen him on a local street corner waving his sign, or maybe he knocked on your door asking you to sign a petition to get his name on the ballot. If you haven’t seen him, or heard of him yet, you will soon. Quoc is not the traditional run of the mill candidate. In the state of Florida most candidates pay a filing fee to get on the ballot. That fee is $10,000. The only other way to get on the ballot is by collecting thousands of petition signatures. Quoc personally collected more than 5800 petition signatures over a 110 day period and spent 9 hours each of those days knocking on doors asking people to sign his petition. Few people take this route but Quoc has heart, and is devoted to this community, and his country. It is easy for an out of touch elitist to pay $10,000 to get on the ballet, but do you think our current representative Rick Keller, or even some of the other democratic candidates like Alan Grayson or Charlie Stuart would walk hundreds of miles to get their name on the ballot? Quoc did this not only to get the opportunity to serve his community, but to hear thousands of individual central Florida stories, concerns, and issues.

In the corrupt game of old time dirty Orlando politics, where the same group of elitist seem to find there way into office year after year, Quoc is a breath of fresh air. The incumbent, Ric Keller made a pledge to the citizens of central Florida that he would not serve in the House of Representatives for more than 4 two-year terms. He has decided not to keep his term limits pledge and chose to run for another term this year. If Ric Keller can’t keep his word to the citizens of Central Florida about a simple thing like this, why would he stand up and fight for the issues you are passionate about. Quoc is not only interested in serving the will of the people, he has heard them one by one.

Quoc was born in 1983 and is a first generation Vietnamese American. He graduated from Georgetown University with honors in 2005 and the Emory University School of Law in 2008. He is also the youngest candidate in the race. If you would like his opinion on some of the important issues we face this election year like National security, the economy, and education you can visit his website: www.vanforcongress.com