Stateline Election 2017-Lessons Learned
Listening to my local news and wondering, out loud, how someone who has millions of dollars to spend could find themselves millions of dollars in the hole just really did not make sense to me. Especially since the money that they were spending did not totally belong to them. I had a hard time understanding how someone trusted to represent those who elected them, could ignore their pleas and cries while pretending to hear them at the same time. After several days of this and many rhetorical questions later, my wife made one solid suggestion. She suggested that I either stop complaining or run for office and fix the things I saw was wrong. As I looked into her eyes, saw that she was serious and felt the faith that she had in me to not only care about the suffering but my ability to figure out a way to stop it, I became convinced that she was right. It didn’t take much longer for me to begin to conceive of ideas and ways to fix these issues as well as j...