Just when we thought we'd have to give up the campaign, along comes FreedomSlate08.com's July 4th Money Bomb.

An update on the campaign...

As the regular readers of this column may know, in my last article I had resolved to "throw in the towel" on my congressional campaign (Illinois' 14th CD) because of the near impossibility of obtaining more than 11,000 ballot petition signatures by June 23rd. Hours after that article was posted, along came Trevor Lyman. For those who don't know Trevor, he is the guy who spearheaded the Ron Paul money bombs and the Ron Paul Blimp.

I'm very pleased to announce that Druck for Congress is now one of 16 pro-constitutional candidates selected for inclusion in Lyman's FreedomSlate08.com July 4th money bomb. As a result, we have hired an army of paid petitioners to collect the signatures required to get on the ballot. As our filing deadline is 12 days before the money bomb, we are rolling the dice in hopes that the donations we receive will cover the costs of the petitioning. In the mean time, I'm fronting most of the costs myself. (oh well... my kids didn't need their piggy banks anyway!)