Hammons makes another 2nd CD run as unity candidate

It's not that you're doing a bad job congressman, it's just that the system needs changing.

With that co-opting of Obama's change message, Unity Party candidate Bill Hammons announced today that he would challenge Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, in 2010.

Hammons received .63 percent of the vote last November.

"Although Jared is currently representing our District well, he is a part of a system that is defunct," Hammons said in a release. "The two major parties' stranglehold on American political power was primarily a 20th century phenomenon, and cannot continue indefinitely.

THE FULL RELEASE FOLLOWS:
Boulder, Colo. -- Bill Hammons, 2008 Unity Party of America candidate for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District (Fact Sheet: http://bill-for-congress.us/hammons-fact-sheet.htm) is running for the 2nd District once again, against incumbent Jared Polis.

"Although Jared is currently representing our District well, he is a part of a system that is defunct," says Hammons. "The two major parties' stranglehold on American political power was primarily a 20th century phenomenon, and cannot continue indefinitely.

"It gives me great pleasure to see the Unity Party of America on a rather short list of American political organizations which are formally recognized in at least one State of the Union, and to see the Unity Party on a much shorter list of organizations which could conceivably govern one day. In the meantime, the Unity Party and its 200 Colorado members will need to field a candidate in 2010 to remain an option on the State's voter registration form.

"I therefore declare my intention to run for Colorado's Second Congressional District in 2010 as a Unity Party of America candidate. As before, I support a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop the nonsense, at least of the spending variety, in Washington. I support Federal term limits, and, if elected, I will serve only four terms as a US Representative. Finally, to encourage true competition and thus innovation in American politics, I support abolishing the practice of gerrymandering US Congressional districts, and placing the drawing of such districts in the hands of retired judges.

"Moving forward, I will be running against an incumbent in a District which was last represented by a third party at its creation in the 19th century. I am a small businessman of limited means who will make a point of not spending money on this race; I'm primarily grateful that my New York-based Communications Director and other supporters are sticking with me for the long haul."

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