I am running for political office because I think Bethlehem's citizens - of all political affiliations - deserve more competent and less selfish political officials than what they have had in national, state, county and local government during the last four years. As voters, you need to expect more, demand more, of your elected officials. I am running to be eyes, ears and a voice for downtrodden ordinary citizens and to show you how to take back your country, state, county and municipality from the rascals who have been taking advantage of you while smiling at and pandering to you sweetly, if you choose to participate. Your choice in this election is not between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.
Most change - especially big change - has to start small. What better place to start than the county legislature?
Election campaigns are a job interview, not a popularity contest, and democracy is a participation sport. Will you join me in this noble cause larger than any one of us and save our state and country by saving our town and county?
"Promoters and politicians tell you what you want to hear; leaders tell you what you need to know. Promoters and politicians tell you what they're going to do for you; leaders show you how to do it for yourself. Promoters and politicians want you to love, respect and admire them; leaders want you to respect yourself." -Dennis Waitley, motivational speaker
"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government." -Thomas Jefferson
"Somebody has to pay the bills, and that somebody is you." -Jared King
"I'm more frightened by the apathy of the good people than by the hate of the bad people." -Martin Luther King
"I would like to see determined and iron-assed people get into positions of influence in this country, some people who wouldn't be afraid to say that there is a difference between right and wrong. I would like to see some standards set that we can be proud of." -Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima
"None comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him." -Richard Rumhold, a man involved in the regicide of Charles I at his own execution
"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or, perhaps both." -James Madison
"We live in a universe of good and evil .... We cannot evade the truth. We must assume our moral responsibilities." -Desmond Tutu