DEAR READERS:
LAST MONDAY (05/02/05) I DECIDED TO PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS.
I WENT TO MEET WITH THE YORKTOWN G.O.P. NOMINATING COMMITEE TO BE
INTERVIEWED FOR A POSSIBLE NOMINATION TO RUN FOR YORKTOWN TOWN
COUNCIL. I SUBMITTED AS MY RESUME ALL MY PRINTED WRITINGS (WHICH
INCLUDED ALL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND ALL ENTRIES INTO MY BLOG
UP TO 04/O8/05). I THOUGHT THAT THE COMMITEE SHOULD KNOW I WAS
SOMEONE WHO HAD TAKEN SOME STANDS THAT I BELIEVED THE PARTY
NEEDED TO ADRESS, AND I WAS THE ONE TO ADRESS THEM. I HAD THE
PRECONCIEVED NOTION THAT CHARACTER AND CONVITION IN A CADIDATE
MATTERED. IT DOES, IF YOU WISH NOT TO RECIEVE A NOMINATION. PARTY
LINE AND TEAM PLAYER ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN INDEPENDENT
THOUGHT. I WAS TOLD THIS IN ADVANCE BY SOMEONE IN ELECTED OFFICE
WHOSE ADVISE I SOUGHT. I WENT ANYWAY. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I WAS
LAST TO BE INTERVIEWED, THE OTHER CANDIATES HAD AT LEAST 25 MIN.
I HAD 10 MIN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES TOLD THE
COMMITEE, BUT IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, I FOUND THEM TO BE
THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD THAT ARE ALREADY REPRESENTING YOU, ALL
READY TO TOE THE PARTY LINE. IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T THINK THEY
CAN BEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I WENT INTO THIS MEETING BELIEVING
THAT THERE ARE A BLOCK OF VOTERS ACROSS PARTY LINES WHO'S VOICES
AND CONCERNS ARE NOT BEING HEARD, AND THAT SOMEONE OF THAT
GROUP NEEDED TO BE REPRESENTED ON THE BALLOT. ON TO THE MEETING....
THE FIRST QUESTION ASKED OF ME WAS WHY DID I WANT TO RUN?
I ANSWERED THAT I WANTED TO RUN TO STOP THE PARTY I GREW UP WITH
FROM THEIR CONTINUED SLIDE INTO THE INTRUSION IN THE THE LIVES
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS OWNERS. I USED THE
OLD STONE CHURCH AS AN EXAMPLE. THEY THEN ASKED MY WHY I THOUGHT I
COULD BE ELECTED. I TOLD THEM THAT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED
I BUSINESS IN THIS TOWN THAT DEALT WITH PEOPLE EVERYDAY SINCE I WAS
14, I COULD REACH PEOPLE THEY COULD ONLY DREAM OF. THAT I HAD A FEEL
FOR WHAT WAS ON THIER MIND, THAT THEY AND THE OTHER CANDIATES
ALREADY ELECTED AND SEEKING ELECTION DON'T REALLY HAVE AS THEY ONLY
MEET WITH THE PEOPLE AT MEETINGS AND PUBLIC EVENTS. I WAS THEN
MENTIONED THAT I DON'T REALLY TRUST POLITICS AND I POINTED OUT
THAT I WAS NEVER GIVEN A REASON TOO, WHICH IS ANOTHER REASON WHY
I WANTED TO RUN. I WAS THEN ASKED IF I WAS WILLING TO GO DOOR TO DOOR?
I SAID I WOULD DO THAT AS I THOUGHT WAS NECESSARY. I WAS THEN CUT OFF
BEFORE I COULD POINT OUT THAT BECAUSE OF MY TAXI BUSINESS I HAVE
THE VOTERS IN MY CAR BEFORE THEY GET TO THEIR DOOR. AGAIN MY
EVERYDAY ACESS TO PEOPLE THEY DON'T HAVE. THEY THEN POINTED OUT THAT
I WOULD HAVE TO RUN AS A TEAM PLAYER AND WOULD I DO THAT? THIS IS
WHERE I LOST THEM. I TOLD THE THAT IF IT MEANT GOING AGAINST WHAT
I ALREADY SAID IN PRINT, THAT IF IT MEANT THAT I HAD TO STAND FOR THAT
WHICH I BELIEVED THE TEAM WAS WRONG, I COULD NOT DO THIS. I COULD NOT
GO BACK AND DISAVOW WHAT I ALREADY HAD SAID. IT WAS AT THIS POINT,
EXACTLY 10 MIN. INTO THE MEETING I WAS ASKED TO LEAVE. I WAS NOT EVEN
INVITED TO STAY FOR COFFEE. I WAS SHOWN THE DOOR. THIS IS WHY I
BELIEVE THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD PREFER A CANDIATE WHO PLACED
MORE EMPHISIS ON PARTY LINE AND BEING A TEAM PLAYER, THEN ON
A CANDIDATE WHO COULD REACH OUT TO THE PART OF THE PARTY WHO
STILL BELIEVES IN A LESS INTRUSIVE GOVT. THE PART OF THE PARTY
WHO STILL BELIEVES IT IS THE ELECTED OFFICALS JOB TO HELP BUSINESS
GET STARTED, TO HELP CREATE PRIVATE SECTOR, TAX PAYING JOBS.
THAT IN DOING THIS, A BUSINESS DOES IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE
FOR THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT SITS. THAT IT IS NOT THE GOVT.
JOB TO MAKE PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS JUMP THROUGH HOOPS TO GET
STARTED. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH OF YOU VOTERS WHO BELIEVE THAT,
TO BE ELECTED, AND DEFEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH
OF YOU WHO BELIEVE A CANDIATE SHOULD STAND FOR PEOPLE ABOVE AND
BEFORE PARTY AND POLITICS. THAT SAD PART IS THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD
RATHER PLAY IT SAFE, THEN TRUST IN YOU AS I DO. I TRIED, I FAILED, AND
FOR THIS I AM TRULY SORRY I LET YOU DOWN.
BAZZO 05/09/05
