August 1, 2010

We hit the home stretch of this campaign with just under 100 days, and momentum is building to flip West Virginia's 1st Congressional District from blue to red!

U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner recently campaigned with me in Morgantown and was impressed with the organization and excitement behind our campaign. He understands how important a Republican victory on November 2nd will be for our state and nation. Rest assured I will be voting for Congressman Boehner to be the next Speaker of the House, replacing Nancy Pelosi! It is crucial to West Virginia families that we have strong, conservative leadership representing our values and protecting our jobs.

The week after Congressman Boehner's visit, I got a call from the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee with word that our campaign had been elevated to their “top tier” of House races, one of only 39 in the U.S. to earn such a designation. That is the number of seats the GOP will have to capture for a Pelosi-Boehner changing of the guard!

National polls are most favorable to Republican congressional candidates this fall. Consider, too, that Senator John McCain captured 57 percent of the vote in this district in 2008 and President Bush won it with a comparable margin in 2004. As a matter of fact, the Obama campaign lost all but two of our district’s 20 counties, and one of those two was by a razor-thin margin.

These next few months I will be listening to every voter and aggressively visiting every county of the First District. We need a change in Washington to stop Nancy Pelosi’s coal-killing tax and spend policies.

This positive change and strong leadership for West Virginia is only possible with your support. Please consider volunteering with our campaign or donating today. My family and I appreciate your dedication to making a difference, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

David McKinley