NC 7th Elections 2010 Examiner

Verne Strickland


AN ESSAY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR VOTE IN THE NC 7th GOP DISTRICT PRIMARY

If you don’t have honesty and integrity before you go to Washington, you can be sure you won’t find it when you get there.

Some do have it but lose it quickly in the giddy, power-mad circus of favors, deals, eroded morals, unholy alliances, kickbacks, media fluff, short cuts and long shots.

These people are sometimes called incumbents.

They’ve been around. Learned the ropes. Won the perks. In their world a public servant is someone who opens the door to the limo.

Pride has turned to ingratitude and cynicism. Standards have been adjusted to suit the accepted level of incompetence on any particular day. Duty is an inconvenience. Honesty a catchword for losers.

This is the Washington that has to be changed. Entrenched incumbents made it what it is. Voters too apathetic to stop let it happn. And it is a disgrace.

Who would you most like your U.S. Congressman in the 7th District to resemble? Nancy Pelosi? Jesse Jackson Jr.? Barney Frank? Barney Fife?

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