Fellow Plumbers:

It has been a tough and emotional day.  Today I received many emails and calls expressing a wide range of emotions after the disappointing outcome of the election.  I share your great disappointment yet I am optimistic for our long-term future.  Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States.  Our nation faces many challenges, we as Americans we should come together and pray for him.  So while I give him conditional support, I’m deeply committed to real change…values that a chastised republican party should embrace.

Many of you asked me to keep our blog up.  I will, the blog is not dead, I’m more energized than ever. Election day 2010 is now less than 2 years away.  I would like to thank KT here in Tampa for setting up the blog. This was her first foray into politics and her dedication is to be commended.  Without KT there would have been no blog.

My intention going forward is to energize and reinvigorate our blog as a vital and active forum.  I’ve had offers of support and suggestions for going forward.  I will accept them all.  From a friend in AZ…”I would like to see you continue with it. I want to spread this kind of information to every single person in business and give him or her a reason to not loose hope. I think that an army of people can be created with the use of the internet and information about what is going on in different states needs to be reported to everyone.  As business people we can unite and become activated in a way that may repair some of the damage that will be done”.

We’ll keep our blog http://blog.wetheplumbers.org/ educational, informative and most important positive. I will need your help to do that.  And I will write an email to our fellow plumbers twice a week updating you on important issues.

With your continued help and support, I want to help create an army of educated plumbers to take back our country.  

Our challenge to President-elect Obama, honor the eloquent words you spoke last night…”To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president, too"

Before signing off 2 comments on the election

We did not get out the vote!  Despite all the attention focused on registering new voters, the totalvote count so far is down by around 1 million voters.  While the Obama machine did an incredible job getting out the vote, we didn’t.  Here the totals for the last 2 elections.