I have been privileged to advise many elected officials, not solely in Arizona. I have been behind the curtain, so to speak, providing counsel and briefings to many candidates for various offices including national positions. I have seen, firsthand, the building of a campaign strategy and program geared toward smart and smooth looking websites, brochures, radio and TV ads along with how the candidate should handle public appearances. I sincerely pray this election, regardless of the office being sought, citizens will ask some very poignant questions to the candidate about the candidate’s character and beliefs, not merely their well-rehearsed, smooth and delightfully appearing rhetoric and finely tuned campaign platform.
Stop being timid. We are sincerely in a fight to save our nation from being toppled into a Marxist New-World Order. I am NOT being theatrical. I AM sounding a warning, and I pray WE THE PEOPLE hear and respond. Ponder the questions I listed below. Bring several of your neighbors together and attend a meeting with a candidate, I don’t care for what office; be it local, school board, county, state, national. We better find (and I share biasedly it is terribly close to being too late) people willing to truly serve and not be served, who are willing to practice servant leadership similar to what our founders demonstrated, office holders willing to stand and truly fight to protect and preserve our way of life and the exceptional founding principles that are the foundation of our nation.
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Ask the following questions and hold the candidate accountable for not merely espousing a vague, smooth word salad reply, cackle or not included.
Question #1: What is the proper role of government? — An appropriate answer should be, or close to: Our Founders were clear that government was to reflect the will of the people. It is the people who give government its authority.
Question #2: As an elected public official, you will be required to take an oath to uphold and preserve the Constitution of the United States. When was the last time you took a serious look at the Constitution? Can you identify one or two areas where the Constitution is being violated today?
Question #3: What are your views about public debt. What is your opinion of using debt and how it should be paid off. –An appropriate answer should be, or close to: Our Forefathers warned about debt; it should be paid by the generation that created it!
Question #4: What is your view on unalienable rights stated by Jefferson in the Declaration. –An appropriate answer should be, or close to: These are rights given by our Creator. They cannot be taken by man without coming under the judgement of God. This will tell you much about a candidate’s philosophy and even values.
Question #5: Share your thoughts on: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. –An appropriate answer should be, or close to: Solutions to America’s domestic problems should be based on morality and virtue. Definitely not political philosophy.
Question #6: This is a BIG ONE and make certain it is answered clearly by the candidate. Please give an example or two of verifiable evidence in your life where your beliefs, as stated above, can be seen or measured by your speech and acts.
As a nation, we seem to have misplaced the truth that government derives its powers by consent of the governed; by We The People. So very many elected officials clearly appear to have misplaced, or outright ignored, that our Forefathers sought for elected office those who would represent the citizens first, not their own careers, and they would accomplish such as “Servant Leaders.”