We spend much of our time at C3 building and equipping advocates who can make the difference in the fight against colorectal cancer. And yes, we often focus our advocates’ attention on what they can do to influence Congress – the House and Senate.
Tuesday, November 7 represents perhaps your easiest and your most important means for influencing Congress. You and your neighbors will determine just who the Congress is.
C3 is not in the business of endorsing candidates. Not only are we not allowed to do so, we don’t think it would be a good idea for us to do so! You see, at C3 we are concerned with one thing and one thing only: fighting colorectal cancer. It’s why we exist.
But we also like to think that there is more to us as people than just that fight. True, it might be the most important thing that you and we are doing right now, but we believe we’re well-rounded enough to know that there are other important, life-changing issues in our lives, too. C3 will never tell you to be a single-issue voter. We do not believe that our issue of colorectal cancer is the only issue that Representatives and Senators should be concerned with or judged upon. It just isn’t so. We expect our elected officials to be well-rounded individuals, too.
We do hope that colorectal cancer is one of the factors – not the only one – that you take into account when you vote. Will this person be responsive to my needs and to the needs of people with colon cancer and rectal cancer?
We are proud to live where we do – proud to be able to be advocates for our single issue, proud that we have the right and ability to speak up for ourselves and for those who cannot do so, proud that we have the ability to select a government that we believe will be responsive to our needs. And whoever is elected, C3 will be monitoring their votes and actions to ensure that they are responsive on colorectal cancer.
So, please make yourself and us proud on Tuesday by exercising your most fundamental right in this great land. Vote!
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