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What would you do if your Congressman came to you personally to ask for your help? What if the help he asked you for was to help design a program to rig an election?

If you're Clint Curtis you go public with the scandal and run for Congress against him.

Clint Curtis grew up Republican in Illinois and Florida. It took the recent Republican scandals and the realization that his Republican Congressman wanted to rig elections to bring Clint Curtis to the realization that the Party that calls itself Republican had long ago abandoned the values it once professed. In this Clint is coming to the same realization that Jim Jeffords came to when to switched to Independent, that Arianna Huffington came to after watching her idol, Newt Gingrich, show his true colors, and that Pete McClosky came to when he switched his party affiliation to Democrat...after a lifetime of being a Republican including a candidate for President in a primary against Nixon. Clint describes his own change this way:

In September of 2000, Clint’s life took a course that he never could have imagined. It was then that Clint was first introduced to Tom Feeney the incoming Speaker of the Florida House. Clint was a programmer at Yang Enterprises, a company whose owner was an associate and confidant of Mr. Feeney. Initially Clint was impressed. He expected that Mr Feeney shared the values of the Republicans he knew growing up in Illinois. Clint identified with the Republican values at the time - conservative and based on ethics and integrity. It was always the Democrats under Mayor Daley that were engaged in corrupt behavior. Clint expected that Mr. Feeney would share those values. Clint soon learned he did not.