Joe Ryan has a Law Degree from ABA Approved School.

The vast majority of the members of congress also have law degrees. While membership in congress is not reserved for attorneys (Hallelujah); having a law degree is certainly a valuable asset for any person that will represent the electorate in floor debates, and in meetings where matters of law might be discussed, and where staff might not be available to provide legal guidance or an opinion regarding a proposed law's constitutionality.

Mike Lumpkin has No Law Degree and no Significant legal Education

It's hard to imagine how a 43 year old lacking any significant legal education- who spent the last 22 years absorbed in military matters- could be ready to stand up intellectually to the attorneys inhabiting the halls of congress. There are many persons - without any legal education - who have attained the depth of legal knowledge necessary to represent citizens in congress; however, having spent the last 22 years moving up the military hierarchy, it's hard to imagine how Mike Lumpkin. could have had time to attain the requisite level of legal acumen he would need to compete in the beltway. Military service is something to be proud of, and I'm sure Mike knows a bit about non-military issues; but moving up the military hierarchy must be a very consuming task; so I question how much opportunity he's had to really concentrate on non-military matters; especially matters related to the law.

Joe Ryan Refuses to accept Money from anyone

What if every voter demanded that candidates for office accept no money from any Individual or organization as a prerequisite to receiving their vote. Politics in America would change overnight! Instead of listening to a bunch of baloney answers to various political questions, why not first say; Do you accept money to run for office? If the answer is yes, tell them you don't need to talk to them about other issues. What would be the point? Nothing they say could be trusted once they're being paid off by who knows who. Joe Ryan is not excepting any monetary contributions and vows to never take any money in order to run for office. If elected Joe Ryan will never accept any free gifts, meals, boatrides on The Dukester or anything else, ever! Joe Ryan would never leverage a congressional seat in order to provide himself with any post-service, financial windfalls. Candidates coming from either major party have virtually no chance of escaping the money chase. If Joe Ryan is elected he vows to spend all his available time working in the service of his 52nd District constituents and not chasing money, taking calls form 'connected' contributors and figuring out what fundraiser is on for that night. Congresspersons constantly complain that they don't have any time to do anything but raise funds. I would spend zero time fundraising! If Joe Ryan has to accept money to win, he would rather lose the race for the 52nd District Seat.

 Joe Ryan Has some campaign signs going up around town. They were all made on Joe's patio out of some leftover auction materials, and some new 1x 2 pieces of wood. Joe make small signs for less than $2, and he makes big signs for $3 dollars. Both major party candidates get lobbyist and other contributors to pay for their expensive signs. Joe Ryan will put up 100 signs for less than $300 dollars (plus gas money). Joe Ryan will work hard and come up with the $300 himself.

Mike Lumpkin is raising and spending money non-stop

Mike Lumpkin taking money from the Coachworks companies (defense contractors) who think they have his ear, and from lots of elites from New York, Lajolla, and other wealthy enclaves far from the 52nd district. The consultants, advisors, pollsters and job-seeking 'staff' all have to be paid. Then there's the hoard of expensive signs, bumper stickers and the multi-page glossy mailers that he'll flood the district with. There's staff vehicles and meals. Then he has to come up with money for professional photographers and caterers; office space with office furniture, a network room, alarms, file cabinets, and a zillion other items. Then he has to stay on the phone all day most days stroking contributors egos and asking for even more money. Mike has obviously gotten himself hooked up with the right people in the Democratic party who know how to run a big money, modern style expensive campaigns. The money-train has pulled from the station and the locomotive has no brakes. Voters must 'Just Say No' to this type of campaign. Otherwise the voters may end up with the congressman the looters have paid for. Only the public can stop this baloney and demand that the race be about ideas, and not about money. Mike is a smart guy, who seems like an honorable guy, but the money guys are sucking him in; and no matter his intentions, the wrong people have Mike's ear. See the next section for details.

So far Mike Lumpkin has collected approximately 62 donations of more than $200 from individuals or companies located in New York (11), New Jersey (4), Beverly Hills (4), Lajolla (32), Virginia (6), and Delmar (5); Meanwhile Mike has collected Zero donations over $200 from Ramona, Alpine, Descanso, Pine Valley, Borrego Springs, Lakeside, Santee, Lemon Grove, Santa Ysabel, and Julian Combined!

In addition Mike Lumpkin Has taken $$$$ from individuals who work (or worked) at Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Shipbuilders, coachworks companies, Metlife (one of the the next companies to be bailed out), Trident Submarines, or for real estate companies or developers.

In addition, Mike is taking money from West San Diego politicos like Lynn Shenk, and John Moores. John Moores has already been caught bribing Valerie Stallings (San Diego councilmember). He wasn't prosecuted because he supplies lots of money to both democrats and republican politicians from the San Diego.

Joe Ryan strongly supports efforts to create a green economy; but he won't fall for bunk programs that enrich billionaires, like 'cap and trade'. Joe Ryan believes that every time a defective product is produced, the equivalent of an environmental sin has occurred. Joe Ryan believes that we cannot continue to ignore product quality and durability, when we discuss controlling damage to the environment. The key to controlling the burgeoning worldwide desire for material goods is to make sure every product that is produced fulfills a material need; and to make sure that the same product does not have to be reproduced over and over (to fill the same, identical material-need, again and again). The landfills are running out of space due to the massive amount of junk products that are sold at junk outlets. Giving consumers the tools and rights they need to hold the manufacturers and retailers of junk responsible for what they put into the stream of commerce.

The United States could lead the world in a new emerging market; the manufacture of products that have lifetime guarantees, or guarantees that have real substance and that can be enforced with ease by any consumer of the product. Rather than running from guarantees and warranties, American producers could market the same. Sure, American made products made of superior quality would cost more than products from competitors, but the market for quality products will invariably grow, while consumers of the world will lose their tolerance for 'junk- products' as their skies grow grayer, their rivers die, and their own landfills overflow. If elected, Joe Ryan would work against the production of junk, and try and stop the revolving door that sends products into a port, through a store, and almost straight into the landfill.

Unlike 'Moderate' Democrats, Joe Ryan does not support off-shore drilling or drilling in ANWAR as a solution for America's high energy prices. Instead of being selfish, doesn't this generation have a responsibility to make sacrifices so that the next generation has some resources left at their disposal? Joe Ryan understands that the easiest way out of a problem isn't always the wisest or most equitable way to go.

The Democratic Party only pays lip-service to it's base on issues pertaining to the environment, and when they back a environmental initiative it's usually part of a scam by the Globalist Billionaires to line their pockets some more at our expense; under the guise of protecting the environment. Cap and Trade is such a program. The Democratic Party will get Cap and Trade (the carbon tax paid to hedge funds and corporations) into law sooner or later unless they are stopped. The Democrats are too naive to understand that hedge funds are using money (printed up and loaned from the Federal Reserve bank) to buy the logging rights to forests throughout the world; so they then become the recipients of the tax. And if we ever stop paying or drop out of Kyoto, they'll be 'forced' to liquidate their forest holdings. Any so-called environmentalist that falls for the Democrats, cap and trade tax, is being gullible and naive. Many environmentalist have their heart-and-soul wrapped up in cap-n-trade because the foundations, and think tanks that most work for (directly or indirectly through grants and 'charity') are funded by the same parties holding and accumulating forest-logging-rights on a worldwide basis.

Doesn't it give any environmentalist any concern that most major Wall street Firms, brokerages, and Corporations love cap-and-trade? Has that gang ever backed a legitimate environmental program. It's time to vote for someone who has a clue about cap and trade, and who has a better plan to protect the environment than a party regular like Mike Lumpkin? If you think Joe Ryan doesn't know what he's talking about, or that he got his ideas from a conservative talk show host, think again. If the talk-radio guys bash Cap-N-Trade; that's just because, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. The fact is, Cap and Trade is a scam. Don't count on Mike Lumpkin to understand what cap and trade is really all about. Maybe he will, maybe he won't.

JOE RYAN WILL NOT REST UNTIL FOOD SPECULATORS FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ARE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS & THE CARNAGE STOPS!

If you vote for Joe Ryan, you will get a representative who will battle the Federal Reserve Banks' funding of food, and oil speculators with gusto. Joe Ryan knows that affordable housing will only be available to persons of median income, when the prices of homes are not driven up and down by Federal Reserve Bank bubble-creation and deflation.

Denying that hedge funds - that exited the real estate market and entered the commodities market after being given a flood of cheap money by the Fed - are behind the food speculation that is causing the deaths of 6 million people a month, is ludicrous. Voters can't believe all the propaganda spewed on PBS and the National media outlets, without at some point, digging deeper for the truth. Many have. Joe Ryan has too. Consequently, he has a plan to dismantle their system of looting. Elect Joe Ryan and get the speculators under control before the fed gives them enough money to double the price of other consumer goods. Perhaps, if voters elect enough Democrats and Republicans again, their 'buddies' can see to it, that the hedge funds have enough money to double the price of water and electricity too.

THE DEMOCRATS (and Republicans for that matter) ARE ALL HOLOCAUST DENYERS, BECAUSE THEY'RE PARTY IS DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH ENABLING THE SLAUGHTER THAT IS 'THE FOOD-HOLOCAUST OF 2008'!

There's no indication yet that Mike Lumpkin understands the totalitarian agenda being advanced by the Globalist that provide most of the funding for The Democratic Party. A vote for the Democrats is a vote for more food-speculation based genocide. Only 6 million a month die now; so I wouldn't want you progressives to do something drastic like boycotting your beloved Democratic Party, so the blood isn't ON YOUR HANDS anymore! Just keep holding up your stupid little 'change' signs, while voting for Candidates controlled by hedge funds murderers. Face reality; The Democratic Party and The Republican Party are the enables of the hedge fund speculators who kill 6 million a month. Mike Lumpkin wouldn't condone food speculation, but as a democrat he will be forced to unwittingly enable the same.

Joe Ryan = Against REAL ID!

Joe Ryan opposes the REAL ID Program and understands that the 'REAL ID' equals complete 'people control'; and that it will be the number one tool used to extinguish freedom and dissent. If you upset the Globalist Mafia in any way shape or form (by protesting, or refusing to submit to unfair taxation) your 'privileges' can be turned off like a light switch. In the future, your travel 'privileges', your 'privilege to buy medicine' and other 'privileges' granted by the Globalist security apparatus can be added and deleted from your RDIF coded ID at will. This is not a 'conspiracy theory'! It's a fact that is discussed on globalist security sites. Wake up before it's too late. The Democratic party is asleep on this issue.

The Democrats in Congress Love REAL ID!

The Real ID law and the REAL ID Support Act that ban financial Institutions from dealing with anyone who doesn't carry a REAL ID Card! Rudy Guliani says you'll need it to get online on the internet. Others say you'll need it to buy medicine. Where's total people control end? It certainly begins with the REAL ID!

Joe Ryan admits he doesn't have any experience serving in the military; however, Joe Ryan is not ashamed of the same fact; since there are numerous ways to patriotically serve your community and your country. Joe Ryan does support those who are serving, but his definition of 'supporting the troops' does not include deploying American patriots to serve in the giant network of military bases (128 at last count) all across the world, while are allies enjoy open shipping lanes and the disruption of terror activities the US military is engaged in suppressing. Joe Ryan believes that the best way to battle terrorism is to bring most of our troops home from their worldwide positioning, and stop trying to be the world's Mom and Dad, all rolled into one. Joe Ryan believes in reducing the toll on the troops by bringing them home to guard America . The United States geographic isolation from centers of terrorism provides us with the opportunity to realign our entire foreign policy and roll back the entire agenda the Globalist have for our military. We cannot afford to do otherwise. All those in favor of a giant US military used by the Globalist to rule the world, please double the amount you pay the IRS this year or stop indebting the rest of us with your unrealistic visions of how to make your family safe and secure. Get Real and stop dragging the next generation into debt slavery to pay for military insanity. We must spend our military dollars much more wisely and we need to spend a lot less overall. The two goals go hand in hand, and Joe Ryan, if elected, would work to that end.

Mike Lumpkin is touting the rank he attained while serving in the US military. There's nothing wrong with harping on one's accomplishments; however, I don't really see the automatic connection between being a Navy Seal and some of the other claims Mike makes. I have no doubt that Navy Seals are imbued with a sense of integrity and honor during their service and that they live by a code of conduct that requires correct conduct. But it doesn't automatically follow that Mike is still living by those codes. In fact, the way I see things, his reliance on dubious sources of money have already created a conflict-of-interest situation that looks bad. Mike may not be doing anything wrong, but appearances matter. Joe Ryan has no intention of dishonoring anyone's military service, but he believes that running around campaigning for a political office while taking money from John Moores is not necessarily appropriate behavior for a Seal, or anyone else running a political campaign.

Unfortunately, while Mike talks about bringing troops home from Iraq, to Joe Ryan's knowledge he has not formulated an overall strategy to shrink America's military down to an affordable size, and to realign America's troops to protect America first. Hopefully Mike hasn't been drinking the tea they serve at The Brookings Institute, but we won't know until he spells out his vision of foreign policy in the same comprehensive manner as Joe Ryan has. Party bosses tell candidates to speak in generalities; Joe Ryan wants to hear specifics from Mike Lumpkin Joe Ryan is willing to be specific about his plans for the US military.

Joe Ryan believes that a country that refuses to fund a significant college education for a soldier that dodged bullets in Iraq, while running huge deficits to finance the maintenance of thousands of nuclear warheads, wall street bailouts, and other insanity (like Duncan Hunters 63 million dollar 'plane to nowhere') has lost it's way. Patriots from the left and right can unite and demand real change and justice, before the chance to get either is extinguished. You just have to be brave enough to throw the Democrats and Republican Party's under the bus and vote for a genuine Change agent like Joe Ryan. Mike Lumpkin is piling in money from CoachWorks companies (armored vehicle providers) and other conflicted characters he'll owe favors and contracts too.

One thing Joe Ryan can count on over the last 48 years his life, is the fact that every decade their will be a huge scandal erupt over the treatment of our injured troops. It usually involves Walter Reed Hospital or VA facilities and care levels. The Democrats and Republicans get really mad in public and then as soon as things calm down and the reporters get distracted by another story, it's business as usual. Maybe Mike Lumpkin is different. But why take a chance on Mike when you consider the role Democratic members of the House and Senate have had in underfunding troop care while pouring money into 'planes to nowhere', unarmored humvees, and stealth bombers, that were never used much for anything besides show-bombing for the press now and then, before their retirement from service.

Here we go again. The Democrats just gave immunity to the telephone companies that broke the law; so a precedent has been set; and, in the future, any corporation that cheats the people out of their privacy, can fall back on a 'the government told us to do it' excuse. It's the so-called, 'moderates' of the Democratic party that keep selling us out. Guess what Mike Lumpkin is billed as?

Most citizens have not suffered nearly as much at the hands of methamphetamine users and other drugged out criminals than Joe Ryan did while leaving near the beach in San Diego; however, Joe Ryan does not support the war on drugs because he believes that drug addiction is a mental health problem that should be approached accordingly. The jails must be reserved for persons with a proven propensity to commit bad acts, regardless of whether they are on drugs.

This is also another issue that must be governed by the basic principal that we must pay for our societal desires, instead of borrowing money to fund our prison plans. We can't afford to spend 60k a year to put every druggie in jail. We would all be broke fast, and there would be few cured individuals.

We need a war on the Globalist criminals that run the international drug trade and who operate with impunity because they are well connected to government officials worldwide. Those are the guys who make the arrangements and pay the bribes that ensure that cold medicines remain widely available over the counter (despite having knowledge of how their customer-base uses the 'medicine' they legally sell) and who arrange the shipments of precursor chemicals to drug syndicates.

Joe Ryan realizes that resources utilized in the 'war on drugs' have been as badly misplaced as the military resources wasted in Iraq. We need to invest in mental Health counselors and affordable, effective treatment facilities, rather than more prisons, in order to break methamphetamine's grip on America, and we need to go after the problem by breaking-up the drug industry from the top down, instead of wasting money doing the opposite.

Billions of dollars in illegal drug profits cannot flow around the world without our New World Order Security Services knowing exactly who is involved at the top. It's a group of highly protected International criminals. If elected, Joe Ryan would try and get our DEA and other agencies to root the whole bunch out, and get them put of of business for good. Joe Ryan believes we need to pursue the billionaires at the top of the drug pyramid, with the same fervor that has been wasted pursuing the Globalist Crime Syndicate's drugged-out victims.

The Democratic Party has proven to be too weak and cowardly to stand up against the deficit-financed 'war on drugs'. They're always scared to death someone will accuse them of being 'for drugs', or 'against the children' if they do something rational to end a broken, ineffective drug enforcement system. Maybe Mike Lumpkin will break the mold and stand up against our debt-financed 'war on drugs'. He hasn't done or said anything to indicate he will so far. He's trying to shadow Duncan Hunter politically, so he's very limited in what he can espouse. Why take a chance with a Democrat, who is pretending to be one of Duncan Hunter Sr's proteges, on such a critical issue.

Joe Ryan does not support any restrictions on benign substances such as Marijuana. Marijuana has never been linked to any dangerous activity; Therefore, Joe Ryan doesn't care if anyone smokes, eats, or makes a bed pillow out of it. Dangerous drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and the like need some civil regulation; however, Joe Ryan feels the campaign to keep marijuana regulated is a propaganda sham based on ridiculous scholarship, and an overall lack of knowledge by citizens who have been conditioned and brainwashed to hate marijuana. Many now mistakenly believe marijuana is a scourge; instead of something that helps some with their health, and something that helps others pursue happiness (something the constitution guarantees citizens are allowed to do).

Joe Ryan's philosophy on this issue also reflects the enormous amount of deficit spending that is occurring, so that some Americans with control-freak issues, can fulfill a desire to regulate each and every other American they may ever encounter. Joe Ryan is against all types of people and culture control; especially where control based laws are not necessary, logical or affordable. Priorities matter where money is not unlimited. Joe Ryan believes we need to curb spending across the board, and cutting marijuana out of the 'drug war' would be a good start.

Joe Ryan predicts Mike Lumpkin won't touch this subject with a ten foot poll. That would require political courage and insight Democratic Party candidates seldom possess. Maybe he'll surprise us and take a stand that goes against his 52nd District issue-polling. Joe Ryan will not be holding his breath waiting for that to happen. Mike has to shadow The Hunter Family's positions in order to win as a Democrat in the 52nd district. Looks like maybe there's only one Real progressive in the race, and his name isn't Mike.

Joe Ryan tells it the way it is. He's not afraid to speak his mind without consulting a pollster or campaign consultant. Big Party candidates like Mike Lumpkin are usually lost without their staff's guidance. It goes with the territory. Mike mentioned this fall - on his website - that he was in Washington doing fundraising and making calls to contributors. Meanwhile, Joe Ryan was at home studying the issues. You can't get on the money train - like Mike Lumpkin has - and still have time to do anything but get 'briefed' on issues, by think tank 'experts' and other political hacks.

Joe Ryan is straight and never had an ounce of doubt about his sexual preference; so gay people don't particularly bother, offend, or scare Joe Ryan; and quite frankly he doesn't care what gay folks do anymore than he cares what other straight people do. Joe Ryan doesn't think any person's lifestyle should be the subject of scrutiny, and he's a bit baffled by 'tough guys' who get a bit overly obsessed and wound up over other people's sexual preferences.

Joe Ryan doesn't believe that 'activist' judges should be interpreting the constitution in ways that divide humanity into different levels of worth per the constitution. Joe Ryan feels that attempts to strip gay people of their rights can only lead down a slippery slope to the loss of other rights, unrelated to a person's sexuality. Besides, even if Joe Ryan wasn't tolerant of other people (he is), 'regulating' gay people by chasing them around and busting them when they get 'caught' getting married, would still be another deficit-financed project that we can't afford.

If elected, Joe Ryan might risk alienating some on the left and right, by supporting constitutionally protected gun rights and by supporting constitutionally protected gay rights, simultaneously. Leadership isn't about pandering, and it isn't about saying only what people want to hear. Joe Ryan has that figured out. He would protect everyone's rights with vigor, while providing no government support for the promotion of any particular lifestyle, no matter the type, and without promoting the usurpation of private property rights, and without usurping the right of association (which is properly limited by other valid, constitutional principles).

In other words, Joe Ryan will not act as advocate for one particular group that desires to take another groups rights; but rather he would concentrate on acting as an advocate for everyone's rights. Joe Ryan will not support referendums or constitutional amendments that single-out one particular group of people no matter how popular it may be amongst the 52nd District's voters. A True uniter; not a divider. Now, go try and get a straight answer (no pun intended) from Mike Lumpkin on this issue. Good Luck with that!

Mike Lumpkin is being very crafty when addressing controversial issues on his website. It's seems he flip flops his position on an issue as fast as he can stick his finger in the air to see which way the polls are blowing. Or maybe he's flip-flopping because his expensive pollsters are telling him he has Vickie Butcher beaten and he's decided to take a sharp right turn away from his base. Either way, check out theses two quotes from different sections of Mike Lumpkin's website.

In announcing his opposition to same sex marriages, on 5/21 Mike issued a press release which said: “Same-sex marriage is a states’ rights issue and today’s decision is not surprising given California’s constitution. If the decision is contrary to the will of the majority then Californian’s must change our state’s constitution.”

Yet he claims in another section of his website (see 'issues' section) that: "A marriage license is a state's rights issue". "Mike will NOT support a Constitutional Amendment to prevent same sex marriage".

Wow, what do expect from a Party Politician? Talk about a nuanced position. He's supposedly against same-sex marriages, and he believes amending the constitution is the proper way to address the issue; but he won't support a constitutional amendment to that effect. Say What?

See what happens when the Democratic Party pros and consultants start shaping a campaign. Straight talk is the first casualty.