Michael Snyder – I have never been very good at asking for help.  My father was an officer in the U.S. Navy, and he raised me to be very strong and very independent.  So for my entire life, I have been a “pull myself up by my own bootstraps” kind of guy.  From a very early age I came to think of asking others for help as a sign of weakness.  Of course today I know that is not true, but there is still part of me that hesitates to enlist the support of others even when I really, really need it.

But now I have been put into a position where I have no choice but to ask for help.  As many of you already know, I am running for Congress, and there is no way in the world that I could ever do that by myself.  So this is very humbling for me, because I know that if this is not a team effort that I am 100% assured of failing.

The good news is that a number of my readers have already stepped up to help, and I am so thankful for that.  And if you would like to financially support my campaign for Congress, you can do so right here.

Thankfully, I don’t have to raise enormous amounts of money to be successful.  In some areas of the country, candidates for the House of Representatives raise millions of dollars, but in this district candidates for Congress usually only raise a small fraction of that.

And there is going to be no incumbent in this district in 2018, because the individual that is currently holding this seat is running for governor instead.  So the race is wide open, and it doesn’t look like any of my potential opponents are going to raise a great deal of money. Continue reading →