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I am writing this before election day 2024. Regardless of the results of the 2024 election, I am pledging my best personal effort to stop messages of hate, fear, and division that have plagued American politics for the past 10 years. Whoever wins their races up and down the ballot in this free and fair election process will be challenged with doing the hard work of providing leadership and crafting legislation that must simultaneously follow the rule of law established by our constitution and provide benefit not to themselves or just those who financed their campaign or voted for them but to all constituents.
As chairperson of the Manistee County Democratic Party, I am proud of the positive, hope-filled messages for a brighter future we have made the focus of our campaign support efforts. We have purposefully avoided juvenile name-calling, misinformation, and mudslinging while focusing on educating voters to compare how candidates’ proposed policies can help them with important cost-of-living issues like affordability of housing, childcare, and health care while building an economy that provides real opportunity for growth from the bottom up and the middle out. |
I was taught in high school government and civics classes that citizens participating in the American democracy have a duty to vote and to then hold our elected officials accountable through civil discourse to represent the greater good of their constituents. We need to communicate with each other and collaborate to find common ground on issues and then compromise to develop a true win/win outcome.
To get the healing process going right here in Manistee County I am inviting my counterpart in the Manistee County Republican Party to sit down with me over a cup of coffee before the end of November to begin the process of finding common ground. We could work together to reduce homelessness or support our local industries and small businesses. Together we could find ways to bring more state and federal resources to benefit Manistee County. The potential benefits to our county of resolute people in both political parties working toward mutually agreed upon goals would be significant. |
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