Friend —
I’ve never emailed this many people before in my life, but I can’t think of a better reason than this: There’s only one candidate I trust — as
a Navy veteran of 24 years, as a father of two daughters — to navigate
our country through the challenges ahead: It is time to end decades of
regime change war and mend the partisan divide this administration has
widened.
There’s also only one candidate not being given a voice in CNN’s upcoming presidential town hall being held just days before my neighbors and I head to the polls: Tulsi.
I believe we need to do something about this attempt to unduly
influence the choices presented to voters like me here in New
Hampshire: That’s why I’m asking you to sign my petition asking CNN to Let Tulsi Speak.
We all deserve a candidate who actually understands — who knows
firsthand from time on the ground — the enormous cost of war, and who
intends to do something about it.
I don’t think of myself as a Democrat, or a Republican… I’m an American first and foremost,
and I want a president who shares my priority in upholding the values
and freedoms we all hold dear. Who has a record of putting service above
self, not just empty words.
When I first heard Tulsi speak I thought to myself: Here is someone who’s truly authentic. Someone who provides a reasoned response that comes from the heart. She hasn’t pandered. She’s been dead honest about why we went to war, who profited from it, and how much we’re still spending.
She shows up, she listens, and she isn’t afraid to say the things we’re
all thinking to the people in power, regardless of what party they’re
in.
Tulsi’s unmatched experience as a soldier, a veteran of Iraq and
Kuwait, and as a member of Congress sitting on the House Armed Services
and Foreign Affairs Committees is what we need in a Commander in Chief.
And it’s a voice that deserves to be heard on CNN alongside the other
presidential candidates just days before we go to vote here in New
Hampshire.
If you agree, join me in asking CNN to let Tulsi speak.
I don’t like in any way that media elites think they can decide which voices matter in this election, and which voices do not.
When I joined the Navy, it was to uphold our American values — our
democratic freedoms - and that is the spirit in which we need to call on
CNN to extend a town hall to a candidate who speaks for people like
me.
Thank you for standing with me,
Kirk Hoppe USN (Ret.), New Hampshire
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