Presenting Myself As A Possible Delegate To My Neighborhood (3/9/12)

Presenting myself as a possible delegate to my neighborhood (3/9/12)

I am going to try for something I don’t really want to do. I’m going to try to see if I can be elected by my neighborhood to become a state delegate. I tried last year, but I didn’t do much to prepare but this time I’m making more of an effort. People laugh when I tell them that I often feel shy. I’m not a quiet person and I feel uncertain of my abilities. But I realize that if I don’t like how something is going then I should stand idly by and let it happen. I don’t want to be like people who will complain about who our current political leaders are but they never bother to vote.

The last few years I’ve become a much more informed citizen. In fact a lot of the information coming to me is coming at such speed and volume that it feels like I am drinking from a fire hydrant. So if I want to influence who is going to be elected to represent me and my neighborhood then I need to try to be a delegate or support someone else I have respect for. I admit that I’d prefer to take the lazy way out and just concentrate on personal concerns. But too many times I think we’ve all done that too frequently, and things get worse.

So with those who visit my site and this blog, you get to come along and see what I would like to see if I got a flyer from someone who wanted to represent me. Here is my first draft and now to slim it down and modify.

First some brain storming.

Picture. 2. Bio of myself 3. State reasons why I would be the one who would be good to represent my neighbors. 4. Links to the different candidates of my party that I represent. . 5. A list of issues that concern me and potentially other people in my neighborhood. I will have links on the flyer of where people can get more details on the candidates. 6. I will have them go to my web page to get detailed info. 7. I have an invite for neighbors to come to my house for turkey sandwiches. 8. Post audio files of the speeches I taped on my Vent page. And so now Let’s begin.
I have lived in the neighborhood since 1994, 17 years. As far as I recall I have voted at every opportunity I could.
I am interested in becoming a delegate to represent this neighborhood. Why do I feel I would be worth considering? 1. I’m single and so have had the time to pursue some good opportunities to go to political events. 2. I’ve hosted a Meet the candidate night at the Orem council rooms where a governor and senate candidates spoke. 4. I attended the 3 D republican dinner where multiple candidates presented their views on different issues. 5. I was a staff worker for the Patriot Camp in Utah County.
My political views are very conservative; I feel government control should be restricted to only their specified jurisdiction. The people and the individual states should be responsible for their health care, education, business policies. I think we have digressed from the constitution far too much.
Candidates for Governor:

Gary Herbert (R)                    http://www.utah.gov/governor/
Rob Bishop (R)                       http://www.votebishop.com/
Gary Frank (R)                       No web hits
Stephen Sandstrom (R)          http://stephensandstrom.com/
Bill Skokos (R)                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZuxTcaiCeI
John Valentine (R)                 http://www.johnvalentine.com/