Friday, November 30, 2007

Why I do this....

About a year ago my husband and I started talking about how great it would be if Mike Huckabee ran for president. As residents of the state of Arkansas we've had the opportunity to see first hand the great things Mike has accomplished here.

When Mike announced his candidacy earlier this year I started looking for ways that I could get involved. As a stay at home mom of 4 kids, I wasn't sure there was much for me to do. A few months ago I was preparing to run a local 5k and an idea came to me. I made myself an "I Want To Be Like Mike" t-shirt to wear to races. The shirt featured a picture of Mike crossing the finish line at the Little Rock Marathon. Within a week I had some "Runners for Huckabee" t-shirts made that I gave to some of our local runners and sold to others across the nation. The few that I didn't sell were shipped to New Hampshire where Mike was running a 5K.

I had many non-runners asking me about other Mike Huckabee t-shirts. I looked around on the internet only to find that most of the t-shirts out there are extremely overpriced and none of the money goes to the campaign. After that I decided to have some Huckabee '08 t-shirts made. I sell them for about $5.00 more than the production cost and shipping. That extra $5.00 is contributed to the campaign.
My kids love helping me. I have one child that takes care of the "inventory". Another that packages and labels the shirts for me. And another that likes to pull them back out of the box.

This is our way, as a family, of getting the word out about Mike Huckabee as well as generating some extra income so that we can donate to his campaign.
If you would like a t-shirt, please visit ebay or contact me directly at andysprite2@yahoo.com.

4 comments:

Frances Clements said...

Thanks for doing so much for the Huckabee campaign. I am a stay at home mom too (only 2 kids though). I may have to order a t-shirt once I get paid.

BDBopper said...

Got my shirt today Andrea. It's perfect and looks great! :)

-BDBopper

Unknown said...

Are you the person selling the shirts on Ebay? If so, I bought one from you yesterday!! :)

Unknown said...

Are you person selling shirts on Ebay? If so, I just bought one from you yesterday!! :)