Transcript of Statements

Sharon Spaulding, public information director for Werner Erhard & Associates in San Francisco, provided the following transcript of Erhard’s comments about his brother Nathan Rosenberg’s campaign for Congress. About 4,000 seminar students around the country heard the remarks on closed-circuit television as part of Erhard’s seminar No. 10, delivered March 15, on “The Decisive Edge of the Business of Living.”

WERNER ERHARD:

A lot of people have asked me questions about my brother Nathan running for Congress. First of all, it is a fact that Nathan declared himself a candidate just a little over a week ago for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 40th Congressional District in California, Orange County. And he’s running as a Republican.

His first race is against the incumbent representative, U.S. congressman in the 40th Congressional District in the primary. So the fact of the matter is that Nathan is running for office.

Now, I want to say something personal. First off: Nathan’s my brother. So as you can imagine, one gets to know one’s brother pretty well and one knows one’s brother--all of one’s brother’s faults, and all of one’s brother’s strengths. I could not personally be more proud of who my brother is. As a private citizen, and as a member of Nathan’s family, he has my support and my best wishes for winning the race that he’s in.

By the same token, as a public figure, it has always been my policy to stay out of politics, and to keep the organization with which I’m associated out of politics.

It will be my policy to do so with regard to Nathan’s candidacy, and if he’s elected, with regard to his conduct of the office that he holds. So I shared with you where I’m at personally and as a private citizen about Nathan, and I want you to be clear about where I’m at as a public person and as a person affiliated with organizations, and that is, I hope the best man wins.

For those of you that have questions--and this will be the last time I mention this, and the only time I mention this, and I mention it to kind of get it out of the way--you are welcome to contact Nathan on your own with no encouragement from me. You can reach him at 1951 Port Albans, Newport Beach, Calif. The phone number is (714) 759-0408.