Hello Everyone,

I just want to tell you personally that the Boland for Congress website is on the air and we will publicly announce the start of my campaign this Thursday evening at 6pm. An event is being held at Jakes Northwood’s in Sparta Wisconsin. You are cordially invited to attend and bring your friends.

Newt is hyping himself, with some considerable help from media types as THE "not-Romney" deserving of the nomination. Yesterday a story broke about his ex-wife coming forward, telling among other things, how Newt wanted an "open marriage." Titilating to be sure, but as a number of critics point out, there are no perfect people much less candidates, and does this story really have anything to say about Newt's qualifications for office? The good news for me is that I do not have to get down in the dirt, engage in the "he said/she said" stuff. There are plenty of reasons to oppose the candidacy of Newt.

Early on in the movement, I crossed Tea Party Patriots off my list of organizations that I, as a Tea Partier could support. Why you ask? In large part, because Newt Gingrich was one of their spokesmen. I thought it a bad joke to hear Sean Hannity say so many times, "We have to hold the feet of newly elected Republican congressmen to the fire, and now, here to talk about that, is NEWT GINGRICH??????? (Emphasis added.) Newt is one of the more spectacular liars and hypocrites of our time. He pretends to be conservative, yet has little appreciation for the constitution, limited government, and invidual freedom. Newt lionizes FDR, thinks government should be involved in our economy, promoted useless "national greatness" public works projects, and got rich as a lobbyist. NOPE, not my kind of Republican. But given all that it came as no surprise when in a recent straw poll, TPP members gave Newt and Romney more than 51% of votes.

I stopped down at the La Crosse GOP headquarters for their re-opening rally and I was very impressed with the turnout. There must have been at least 150 people packed into that place while about 2 dozen Marxists protested us across the street. Kudos to the LCRP leadership for doing such a good job.

After hearing some great speeches about defending our principles I decided to head down to the convention center gun show to hang out at the T.E.A Party table and chat with the great Americans who believe in the Second Amendment.

It was very interesting to get all the various perspectives from the people at those events. There were a few people at the convention center who did not agree with Governor Walker but not a single one of the people I spoke to liked the effort to recall him. I heard the term 'sour grapes' and 'poor losers' several times from various people and I had a lengthy conversation with one gentleman who happened to sit on one of the area school boards.

This video speaks for itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gwwmm-cQxU