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Elected officials work for the people. Our tax dollars pay their salaries. They are accountable to us. Evaluating elected officials before midterm elections will be critical.
When elected officials do not conduct the business of government based on our best interests, why do we consistently allow them to get away with it? Think about it.
Would you place someone in a job and never check to see how well he or she is performing? After listening to job seekers rail about their qualifications and experience, and how they are best suited for the job, would you hire them and forget them? Would you leave them to their own oversight? Hardly.
Not evaluating elected officials before midterm elections, and not holding them accountable, can result in bad policies decisions — short and long-term.
However, as citizens, isn’t that exactly what most of us do after going to the polls, voting, and working for — essentially hiring — elected officials? After all the promises, the vote, or non-vote, and the election-night victory parties, we often retire and essentially relinquish our roles to ensure that our government works for us.
As you watch actions and decisions being made on the national, state, and local levels, do you think we have the right elected officials to improve the quality of your family’s life, your community, your employment, and your career opportunities?
Evaluating Elected Officials Before Midterm Elections
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Evaluating elected officials before midterm elections is critical if we want to move our city, state and nation in the right direction.
Aside from all the rancorous rhetoric, this mid-term election cycle will hardly be characterized as the usual state of affairs. It is our duty to remember the tenuous conditions and potentially treacherous waters we are treading where the very state of our participatory democracy is at stake.
But that is only part of it. On the home front, many families continue to suffer from unemployment, a lack of quality education for all of our children, far too high rates of drug, alcohol, and substance abuse, and many other areas needing improvement.
With so many domestic and international issues facing us, we cannot continue to afford partisan bickering, personal political agenda being proffered at the expense of substantive dialogue and debate on these various serious issues with looming and dire consequences.
Our government needs to work better than ever to achieve these needed solutions. Evaluating elected officials before midterm elections is a must.
But the real question is: What will we do to make it happen? Will we, the public, fall into our usual role of the absent employer who fails to evaluate the job performance of those we hired, and determine whether or not they are fulfilling their promises to make life better on our behalf?
In these critical times will we be content to carry out the role of passive spectator, one who complains, but never bothers to make a call, write a letter, or convene a meeting of like-minded citizens to hold elected officials accountable?
What will you do in this election cycle to hold elected officials — new, and veteran — accountable for the very important jobs we are hiring them to carry out?
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