Monday, May 09, 2005

I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING....AND DIDN'T STAY LONG ENOUGH TO TAKE IT OFF....

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