As Election Day 2012 draws near, it is time to think seriously about our federal and state future. We need the best people for a strong, free, better future.

We must consider that our current U.S. president is a total failure. Big deficits, big government, big regulations, big spending, tax and spend, caters to favored groups and firms, etc. Tax attacks on a 1 percent minority group, who are job creators. No to him! No more years!

Minnesota’s current governor also is a tax-and-spend type who wants more taxes on a minority group of job creators. As Minnesota governor, he has shut down Minnesota government when he did not get his big-spending ways. How do we deal with the above? How can we improve? What are the best fed and state choices?

Vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for U.S. president and vice president — a great team, great leaders!

Vote for Kurt Bills for U.S. Senate — a new leader for reform.

Vote for Al Quist for U.S. Congress — dedicated to deficit reduction.

Vote for Linden Anderson for Minnesota Senate — a new voice.

Vote for Rich Murray for Minnesota House, a hard-working, proven reformer, who listens and knows our needs and is a rising star in the Minnesota House.

Tort reform, curbing spending, regulation reform. No string blocks grants. Private sector growth, not government growth. These are our keys to a better future. Vote reform now!

 Tom Schleck

Albert Lea