There are a lot of questions you should ask a candidate for public office. The most important?
“Why are you running?” Here’s my answer, in case you’d like to know.
I am running for 1st District Allen County Commissioner because I believe government’s first and most important mission is to deliver services at the lowest cost to taxpayers. It is not government’s mission to meddle in your life or tell you what to do.
I want to be County Commissioner because I believe government lets us down and falls short of its potential far too often. For nearly a decade, I have made bold commitments to improve the way government works – and delivered on them every single time.
I am running for County Commissioner because I believe there is no shame in working with my political adversaries to deliver on what the community pays us to do. It is not a sign of weakness to stand on common ground when we find it beneath our feet. The shame comes when we waste opportunity in the name of winning a game nobody asked us to play.
I want to be your next Allen County Commissioner because I think you are tired of the noise, the bickering, the waste of our shared treasure and of government that spends too much time thinking of itself and too little time concerned about the community. I know I sure am.
I am running for Commissioner in 2012 because I think I can do the job better. Plain and simple. That’s my answer, in case you’d like to know.