Who am I and what is a political grunt. Anyone who has been in the military knows what a grunt is. It is a foot soldier, a ground pounder, a guy who does the dirty work and gets little glory. Now coming from a U.S. Air Force Vietnam-era veteran this term is a little humbling to accept but I guess that is what I am.

I live in Western New York, an area known for political dysfunction. I am not from this area. I'm a transplant but I love this area, even the snow. I think I would rather live here than anywhere else in the world. I do have to confess that even though I love it here I still have a little attachment to the Pittsburgh area. You know what they say, "you can take the boy out of Pittsburgh, you can't take Pittsburgh out of the boy," at least not completely. I still cheer passionately for both the Steelers and the Penguins. (It's too bad the Pirates became a major league farm team.) Now, I like the Bills and the Sabres but they aren't my teams.

O.K. Enough about me. Why am I writing this. I, with about everyone else who lives here, have one major complaint with New York - THE GOVERNMENT. Talk about a bunch of nincompoops. After watching these people since 1988, when I moved to New York, I finally had enough complaining from others and me. Something had to be done! Through "Providence" I met Lenny Roberto of Primary Challenge. After talking for a couple times a week over a few months he invited me to become a part of Primary Challenge. So here I am. I am the guy who does the video for major events. You will see me off on the side recording the history of the reform movement here in the Buffalo area.

And it is a movement. We have some people out in front who get the bulk of the attention but it is filled with people like me, grunts, who don't seek glory but struggle for one goal - RECLAIM OUR GOVERNMENT. We have seen the American ideals that were taught to us, that we came to love quickly eroding under a "European - idolizing" bureaucracy that is increasingly expanding and it scares us. We are not all scholars but we are well read. We are not all geniuses but we are not the dumbiesthat the media makes us out to be. There may be a racist or two there; but, when we know who they are, they are not tolerated. This is not about one man - Obama. This is not about one issue - taxes. It is about a forgetten concept - FREEDOM and the God-given right to govern ourselves. More to follow....