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Dan
Smith Business Manager Roofers & Waterproofers Local #95
Thank
you for visiting this website. By your action you have demonstrated that
you realize the importance of being politically active. I was slow to
learn. The first time I voted I was twenty-six years old. When I was
eighteen could have voted but at the time I felt it didn't matter and, what
the hell, they are all the same. In retrospect that was the time of my life
when I should have been politically active. I was fresh out of high school
without the grades or money to go to college and there was a war going on
in a place called Vietnam. However, I was content to simply complain about
the government in the hope that if enough people complained, something
would change.
One day
I was at my mothers house and one of my sisters told my youngest sister to
do something. My youngest sister responded with "why should I you're
not the boss of me?" Right then it clicked for me. Why should
politicians respond to me? If I am not politically active and vote they
have absolutely nothing to fear from me. I could talk, squawk, scream, cry,
complain, beg, bitch or do whatever I wanted to but as long as I did not
vote I had no real power to implement change. I had no real impact over who
was in office or what they did while they were there.
On the
other hand my life was directly influenced by the people put into office by
people other than myself. In a real sense I had voluntarily decided to make
this country a dictatorship for me. By not voting I agreed to follow, or
suffer the consequences of not following, laws and rules made by people put
into office by the few who vote. I did nothing to insure people who understood
my needs were in elected positions to represent me.
Perhaps
my efforts into this website are my attempt at making amends. I want to
live in a country where 100% of the people are politically active. It seams
very simple to me, if you want a government that listens to you, you have
to speak out. The only place to speak out where you will truly be heard is
the voting booth. Thank you for being politically active and please do what
you can to get as many people as possible to vote.
YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE!
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Election Day
June 3, 2008
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Saturday 9:00 am
Sunday 11:00 am
gloria@atwork.org
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