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April 29, 2008

Press Release: Tony Zirkle for Congress

1. Zirkle goes on TV

I will be running a 1 minute tv commercial on Fox cable throughout the district starting Wednesday, April 30 and continuing on May 1, 2, 5 and in the morning on May 6. Winamac Comcast does not have Fox so it'll be on CNN. The commercial will also run on WNDU Channel 16 during the news at 6:30-7:00 am, 6-6:30 pm, and 11-11:35 pm on May 1, May 2, May 5 and in the morning on May 6. That cost me $14,701, and since I'm completely self-funded here and am not accepting contributions, it wiped me out for a couple of days. If I have a good work week, I'll add Channels 22 and 28; however, I’m a bit busy right now. The transcript is pasted below and is on my Web site at www.tonyzirkle.com/campaign. 

"Hello, I’m Tony Zirkle, Republican Candidate for Congress

Some of you have been deeply offended at my campaign tactics, and for inciting your legitimate feelings, I am truly sorry and do apologize.

However, it is my sincere hope that some day that many of you will finally realize why I had to do what I did because the Republican non-leadership would not let Toth, Chocola, or this new good-hearted guy, who seems to help his opponents almost every time he attacks less than fully cocked, debate me fairly in the public square.

You have to fight with the weapons you have.

The truth is that I only said I’d be willing to debate, in stage 4, "the idea" of the guillotine for 4 or more time serial pre-aged 12 child rapists.

Self-determination slavery reparation segregation is a human right honored in International law and is neither racist nor bigoted. What could be less loving than to ignore the high crime, single parent and std rates in that community?

No father of 3 beautiful Jewish Christian children (their mother converted) is going to be voting to gas innocent ones.

If you want a politician, you’ll have to vote for someone else. If you want a statesman in training, you’ll have to just hold your nose, take a risk and vote for Tony Zirkle on May 6 because I’m the only one on the ballot.

Please visit my campaign site.

I’m Tony Zirkle and this pro-life, anti-porn message now stands approved."

I had to cut "National Socialists deserve the Gospel as much as communist or anyone else and white people have a right to defend themselves against the targeted sexual exploitation of their youth."

2. TONY ZIRKLE Called by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann World's 2nd Worst Person in the World!

Last week, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on his Countdown show called me the world's 2nd worst person after Bill O'Reilly and ahead of John McCain. What cracks me up is that he showed the picture of me presenting the Gospel book, "The Desire of Ages" to the National Socialists. You know that America and its liberal dominated media have become morally bankrupt when you are called the second worst person in the world for trying to present Jesus to a group the media claims is filled with hate.

So, let me get this straight. The liberal media believes that evangelizing Nazis is more evil than suicide bombers, child rapists, drug dealers, murders, torturers and yes even porn-pimps. Maybe those national socialists have a point that WWII was really about liberalism and communism dominating the world and that it was an assault on Christian civilization. Was the bipolar Churchhill possibly deceived? Was America? Didn't General Patton say that we should have been fighting the Russian communists instead? How many people died after WWII because of the new communist threat that Patton said we should not have tolerated. On the other hand, communism gave us Russian brides and capitalism gave us porn stars. Oh, that's tmi (too much info). Maybe asking these questions will get me ranked #1. Anyway, here's the link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MPxOY7l0Brg

3. Tony Zirkle to hold Press Conferences on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 1:00 pm and Friday, May 2, 2008 at 11:00 pm in my South Bend law office at 110 N. Main St. South Bend, IN  46601.

I had previously stated on my Web site that I had intentional designed this campaign to lose so that I could enjoy my summer. However, I also stated that if I hear one more single mother tell me she gets treated worse than a dog, I’d consider cleaning up my act and campaigning to win. It may be too late now, but believe it or not, a potential family law client last week told me, "You don’t treat a dog that way."

Accordingly, I am going to have to eat my words, polish up my protest campaign and try to make this campaign race somewhat competitive.

At these press conferences, I will field any questions the media has and will begin discussing my economic platform. I have two economics degrees from Andrews in business economics and from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in International Economics. What a nice educational complement I could be to a presidential contender who got busted for saying he doesn’t know much about the economy. Maybe being top 5% at Annapolis will allow me to work my way up to 5th from the bottom of McCain’s VP list. Oh, the things Saturday Night Live could do with me. Admiral Stockdale was fun, but I bet I could provide even more entertainment value with my history.

4. Zirkle to Hold Town Hall Meeting at Penn High School on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

I will be holding another town hall meeting at Penn High School on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. The meeting will be in the Large Group Instruction Room A which is straight back and as you curve to the left from the Bittersweet Road visitor’s entrance.

5. Zirkle on Pastor Jeremiah Wright

Article VI, Section 3 of our Constitution states, "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

For the record, I do not support the media’s over-emphasis on who Sen. Obama chose as his pastor. If we go down this road, we will disqualify a large percentage of our population. Are we going to start judging candidates by their religious beliefs? The history of conflicts between Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others is so complex that it could consume almost any political race and nothing else would get accomplished.

I took black preaching in the seminary, so I understand somewhat the difference in flavor that the African American community prefers. While the book of Micah exhorts us to walk humbly with our God, my impression is that black preaching is very often rooted in arrogant pride and too rarely focuses on moving its parishioners to help themselves by disciplining their lifestyles. However, we have to understand the oppressed history of that community and should give them some slack.

Pastor Wright and Sen. Obama have the right to their 1st Amendment freedom of religion and an over-emphasis on one’s religion in a political campaign calls into question the separation of church and state.

6. Zirkle to hold Rally at the South Bend Courthouse steps on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 12:00 pm to 1:00.

I will be holding a rally (perhaps a one man) on Saturday, may 3, 2008 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm at the South Bend Courthouse steps. I will march around the court house square 7 times and then present a speech. I’m still working on the topic.

I’ve always been fascinated with studying how public speakers in centuries past could project their voices without microphones. There’s a famous story of Benjamin Franklin testing the projection of George Whitfield. http://www.pioneernet.net/rbrannan/whitefield/bfongw.htm

I always wanted to be Brigade Adjutant at Annapolis and sound off at parades. I may take the opportunity to sound off a passage from Revelation 14:8. C.f. Isaiah 21;9, Jer. 51:8, Rev. 18:2. I’m a bit out of practice on voice projection so we’ll see.

Tony Zirkle
317 658-0107 Cell Phone
www.tonyzirkle.com/campaign
campaign2008@tonyzirkle.com