"I want Ed to win the election. How can I help?"

1. Get out and vote on November 2nd
   
2. Send a Post Bulletin "Letter to the Editor"
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3. Send e-mail to Ed at elected@edhruska.com
   - authorizing your support for PB endorsement ad
   - authorizing a yard sign on your property

Re-Election 2010:

As I close my second full term as Council Member of the 1st Ward I see things in a different light. As many of you know, while campaigning in September of 2006 my wife, Sue, was diagnosed with a Grade 4 Glioblastoma (terminal brain cancer). She urged me to continue on with my election and we were together on election night, where I prevailed.

Four wonderful years later we are still together as Sue continues to amaze her doctors and those that know her. However, as cancer is known for, this disease continues to attack. Not even the greatest medical doctors in the world can rid her of this cancer.

While discussing my option of running another term with Sue she again has encouraged me to run. We have learned together that there is no “time out” in life and live by the saying “it is what it is” – a saying shared so often by one of our close friends, the late Michael Kuhlman, who succumbed to this same cancer.

During my thirty years with Sue she has always been my inspiration. We share many discussions on issues I/the City face. She always brings up points that give me a view I respect and consider. I am hoping to be able to continue these discussions well into the future. She is a remarkable person!

I will file for this position again in May. However, this campaign will not follow the normal practice of “getting elected”. I will do the following:

Not accept any money from anyone during this election! Money is tight and certainly should be spent on more worthwhile things than a political election.

Not litter the city with yard signs! There is no reason we need to clutter up our neighborhoods with political signs for months leading up to the election. If I put signs up at all it will be within a few days of the election. Signs up longer than that simply are not needed and become an eye-soar to the neighborhoods.

Will not bother people at their homes during all hours of the day! Quite frankly, if I am not at my full-time job or out dealing with City Council issues, I find it very important to be at home with my wife. I would be happy to meet with any neighborhood that wants to get together and discuss issues (or anything). However, I do not find it necessary to be knocking on people’s doors and disturbing their family time. And - I will not ask others to do this for me.

Not be standing on street corners in sandwich boards on election day! If I have not done my job as a representative for the past four years will this help? If this is how you decide who you vote for I would be fine without your vote. Really, is this the way you want to see your elected representatives?