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Our country is in deep trouble and our politicians are making things worse. It's time for bold new leadership to fix America.

Update on the Campaign -- February 14th

Submitted by Laurence Kotlikoff on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:26

Happy Valentine's Day!

I spent the day doing interviews with CFA magazine, Jeff Robinson for his "Follow the Money" radio show, and Dan Rae for his "Nightside" radio show with Dan Rae, which is carried in 38 states on CBS radio.

The Boston Globe did a story on my candidacy on Monday.

I'll post the urls at www.kotlikoff2012.org under Coverage as soon as they are available.

More radio appearance are scheduled. Also, I've submitted (with Scott Burns) a co-authored op ed to the New Times on the Purple Tax Plan, the Purple Health Plan, and the Purple Social Security Plan. This was solicited by one of the op ed
editors and should be published in the next two weeks.

Scott is also going to write a column about my campaign later this month, which will appear in the Dallas Morning News and many other top newspaper that are included in his syndication.

A total of 71 people have clicked Support next to my name at www.americanselect.org. That's a very long way from the 50,000 support clicks I need by April to get into the primary elections to be held, so please, please, please do what you
can to get your friends, neighbors, colleagues and relatives to go to www.americanselect.org, register on their site, and then locate me in the list of candidates and click Support.

Also, please dig deep and contribute whatever you can to my campaign at www.kotlikoff2012.org. A small amount of money can go a very long way. It will be used to make videos that will capture attention and should go viral.

I'm talking with a former very high ranking military leader about running with me as VP. If he signs up (I'll find out by the end of the month), this will make a huge difference and get, I believe, large numbers of current and former members of
the armed services galvanized behind our campaign.

Finally, Americans Elect has indicated that it will shortly start distinguishing Declared Candidates separately from Drafted Candidates. I believe that the number of serious Declared Candidates is very small and that once I'm so identified, the
large number (roughly 400,000) of people that are fully registered/verified on www.americanselect.org will add their support clicks. Right now, my candidacy is buried very deep on their site.

All best, Larry

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Why Kotlikoff in 2012?

Our country's problems are severe and getting worse. No candidate has all the answers. But the problems we face are primarily economic ones and may be better addressed by someone who has spent his life focused on our economic problems and their solutions. No economist has, to my knowledge, ever run for President. In recent years, we've had a nuclear engineer, an actor, two businessmen, and two lawyers. In their hands, the economy has done very poorly on a number of critical dimensions. In particular, none has come to grips with the country's long-term fiscal insolvency.

We've also been very badly served by the two parties' primary concern -- obtaining and maintaining power. This may work for them, but it's certainly not working for us. It's time to elect someone with fresh, bold ideas that will appeal to all segments of society -- someone with the courage to both articulate and implement what's really needed to fix America.