To the OC with Love

Dear dear friends and supporters,

This is a last note to all you wonderful people, before election day tomorrow.  Your hands and minds and hearts and passion are the best gifts we've ever had.  And we've done a fabulous job together, all of us.

From a standing start, you've made the most exciting campaign this riding has seen for a long long time.  When Allie and I met sixteen months ago this week, we could not have imagined that we would by now have a brand new extended family, a grand new circle of friends, and a whole new understanding of the power of community and love.  You have been magnificent, and have welcomed us into your lives with great big open hearts.  Thank you from the top to the bottom of our hearts.

Thirty-one days ago, Allie suggested that we touch a thousand people a day, raise a thousand dollars a day, and give a thousand hugs a day (because that's all the time we had).  So today, through your walking, phoning, Facebooking, emailing, talking, tweeting, donating and baking, we have touched a thousand people a day three times over, we have raised thirty-five thousand dollars, and we have hugged and received more hugs than any other federal election candidate and campaign manager in the history of the country.  We'll bet votes on it.

Each and every one of you is a beautiful compliment to the human race, and tomorrow night, you will have done good, done good for others, and done no harm, all a very difficult task under the circumstances, indeed.  Tonight we ask simply that you remember to rest well, cast your vote, remind others to do the same, and join us tomorrow night for a celebration of friendship, respect and love.

With enormous gratitude,

John and Allie