Frank Cotton has always upheld the importance of family values. Before he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, before his work with the United States Senate and before he became one of Maine’s most popular Republican governors, Frank was a single father, raising a son on his own. He knows the struggles that most Americans face as they try to balance a busy work schedule with a commitment to family.

We challenge you to find another candidate who embraces the conservative ideal the way that Frank Cotton does. It has been with him from the start.

When he was a struggling lawyer in Boblin, Maine in the 1970’s, Frank knew that he had to work extra hard to raise his son Calvin under the shining light of those ideals.

When he was elected to the House of Representatives from Maine in 1978, he immediately began fighting for things like maternity leave and more affordable health care for middle class families. Concepts that are important to you and your family as you ponder your choices before this important Presidential election.

While he was busy fighting for your rights, he was also guiding young Calvin through his adolescence, seeing that his only son grew up with an appreciation for education, worship and conservative values.

In the U.S. House, Frank worked hard to reduce government spending and lower taxes, again in the interest of families like your own. After four years of battling for you, he was elected to the U.S. Senate where his efforts only intensified.

While Frank was at work, Calvin began attending Stanford University, studying law and ultimately graduating cum laude.

As Governor of Maine, Frank energized efforts to rebuild roads and bridges, creating employment for thousands of families. He fought against tougher pollution standards because he realized that those standards would have hobbled operations at mills across New England and the result would have been lost jobs.

And while he was at that, Calvin married Bethany Drouin, a classmate from Stanford, and the couple returned to New England where Calvin works as an attorney. If you need a testament to Frank Cotton’s dedication to wholesome, conservative family values, you need only to look at his son.

Or to his past.

In 1965, Frank enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent immediately to Vietnam where, for eleven months, he fought in numerous battles in the effort to preserve the peace and stability of America.

Four years later, he was back at home where he married his longtime sweetheart. But like most Americans, the Cottons could not avoid their share of tragedy. Frank and Stella Cotton welcomed a child a year after they married, a son they named Phillip, but the boy died in his crib when he was a month old. It was another year before Calvin was born.

Frank left one law firm to start his own in Boblin, Maine. Within two years, the firm was flourishing and Frank began his long and fruitful political career. But tragedy struck again in 1985 when his wife drowned near the family camp in Naples, Maine. Frank never remarried.

As you examine your choices in this crucial election, it is easy to see which candidate can most closely relate to your dreams, your beliefs and your struggles. Frank Cotton is not from big money and was never part of the Washington D.C. elite. All that he has achieved he achieved through hard work and commitment.

Just like you. Just like the people you care about.

And while Frank was seeing to his ambitions, he never forgot the importance of his family. Today, Calvin Cotton is a fine young American with a bright future of his own. Because his father impressed in his son the need for conservative values, a way of life most of us see as vital to lead the nation into the 21^st century.