Dear Neighbor,

My name is Daniel Almond. I am writing this letter to

let you know that Im running in the Republican
Primary on May 24 to be your next state
representative. This will be my first time running for
elected office.
I live in rural Effingham County on Clyo-Kildare Road
with my wife, Amanda, and our four daughters. Ive
worked for three years at Effingham County Prison
as a corrections officer. I am a U.S. Marine Corps
Combat Veteran of multiple tours in Iraq, and I have
been a vocal activist for reform.
I was raised in Georgia after my parents moved to
this state from Louisiana when I was a baby. I am
the oldest of three sons, and I grew up in the Atlanta
area. At age 20, barely an adult and still living with
my parents, I decided to enlist in the Marine Corps in
the spring of 1999.
I started at the very bottom with the rank of private. I
enjoyed the challenge, the training and the
opportunity to see different places like Japan and
Australia. But to be completely honest, I soon
started thinking that the Marine Corps wasnt right

for me, and I was stuck in a four-year contract. In the

military there is no quitting, no going on strike, no
overtime just a lot of following orders and having to
sacrifice free time and comfort. By my third year in, I
was really ready to get out of the service, and I was
counting down until the end of that four year
contract.
I can remember in the late summer of 2001 I was
working in the garbage room of the USS Gunston
Hall, an amphibious ship, off the coast of South
America on a training exercise. For a month, for 12
hours a day, I worked in a small room, the size of a
small bedroom, where all the trash from the entire
ship went. This was the garbage from almost 700
people, from the living quarters, from the chow hall,
from the kitchen and from the bathrooms. I would be
exhausted, covered in garbage and smell like the
inside of a dumpster at the end of those days. I was
so ready to become a civilian; I didnt care what I
would do in civilian life so long as I would be done
with the military. I was so dead set against reenlisting for another four years that if someone had
asked me at the time, I would have said not for a
million dollars. And I would have meant it.

But I changed my mind on the morning of

September 11.
After watching the Twin Towers fall on one of the
ships TVs, I was eager and ready to take the fight
to my countrys enemies and do my part to prevent
another attack. I re-enlisted for another four years as
a counterintelligence/ human intelligence specialist. I
got the opportunity to participate in the first Fallujah
battle in April 2004, and in the following years, I
raised my hand volunteering for more deployments
to Iraq in 2005 and 2006.
While on leave in April 2006 between Iraq tours, I
met Amanda Page who was then a kindergarten
teacher at Guyton Elementary in Effingham County.
A year later, I finally got out of the Marines in the
spring of 2007. Amanda and I got married that
summer. We lived in the Atlanta area for a time and
had our first child while living there before deciding
to move back to Amandas hometown of Clyo in
Effingham County in 2011. Since being honorably
discharged from the military, I have worked as a real
estate agent, as a cook, as a corrections officer and
as a security guard.

During that time I have also been an activist for

conservative reform. In 2010, following the ramming
through of Obamacare, I organized a rally in protest
of that action as well as other recent incidents of
government overreach like the 2008 bank bailouts.
The rally had the simple but forceful message:
Restore the Constitution. I did this along with
others in order to bring attention to the fact that the
Constitutions limits on the size and scope of
government and guarantees of individual freedom
were not being followed like they should be. And this
rally gained national press because we went to the
edge of the Potomac River, across from Washington,
D.C. while legally and safely carrying rifles and
pistols. It was an armed rally as close to D.C. as
possible, and it succeeded at getting the message
Restore the Constitution out there in the
Washington Post, on NPR, and on MSNBC.
As Ive watched our liberties continue to be eroded
and the size and scope of government at all levels
continue to expand, I began to consider running for
public office myself. And as I looked at things more
closely, as I considered whether to run for office or
not, I noticed that there was a lot of cronyism and

improper influence going on in our states capitol.

And the more I looked into things, the more I saw,
the more convinced I became that I had to run for
office myself and try to change things for the better.
I believe district 159 should be represented by
someone who will listen to the people in the district
instead of listening to lobbyists outside the district.
Im looking forward to standing firm against cronyism
and corruption and fighting for the ideas of personal
freedom and limited government as called for in all
of our founding documents.
If youd like to know more, you can visit my website
at www.DanielAlmondForGeorgiaHouse.com, you
can email me at
DanielAlmondForGeorgiaHouse@gmail.com or you
can call me at 912-704-3369.
Again, my name is Daniel Almond and I am asking
for your support in the Republican Primary for House
District 159.
Sincerely,
Daniel Almond