Craig Zanetta wants you to know there are not only two candidates this presidential election.
The Peterborough resident gave a speech Tuesday, Sept. 20, on why he is seeking your vote as a write-in candidate.
“In what other country can a man decide a month before the election that he’s running for president?” he said.
Citing a statistic that 70 percent of people do not favor either Donald Trump or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he said he was inspired to run by his political heroes.
Zanetta named Abraham Lincoln as a hero, as well as Thomas Jefferson, the 18th century man who built his house and John Kasich.
“I wanted to connect with Trump, but that wasn’t possible,” he said.
“We are a nation divided; we are a nation who don’t know who to vote for.”
Zanetta, a California native and stone mason by trade, thinks he’s the solution, or at least part of a reminder to bring back the New England political tradition.
“Bush took my TV away from me. Obama, he took my healthcare away from me,” he said. “Most of why I’m running is I believe men to have liberty and freedom.”