May 6, 2010
How can we measure, beforehand, the worth of anyone who runs for public office? The answer is, by their history of actions.
Back on Dec. 1 of 2007, I was asked to list my name, phone number and email on a paper at the Sparta High School when the garbage issue was being discussed.
Little did I know how significant and meaningful signing my name would become. The man passing around the clipboard was Jesse Wolosky, a current candidate for councilman in Sparta. He organized a group of us into a coalition to improve Sparta’s governance and for the next two-and-a-half years, lead us through public battles and challenges against the excessive spending by the ruling majority-voting block of councilmen in Sparta.
Wow, what a journey! At that first public garbage meeting, we listened to the laments of over 50 women, young and old, single and with children, who exclaimed what a hardship another bill would make against their ability to manage financially. It was the most extraordinarily heart-breaking moment in my 34 years in Sparta, to become aware of what stress, a seemingly insignificant, governmental action could cause.
Now, two-and-a-half years later, let me tell you who Jesse Wolosky is. This is a man who has a clear understanding of what government should not be doing. He holds firm to the fact that government is a service provider not an overseer.
This is an intelligent man, who has traveled the world, lived in third world countries and knows first hand how great our form of government can be and wants to do whatever possible to protect it.
We need a man of his character, who has a moral compass, is fiscally responsible and possesses governmental savvy. I am voting for Jesse Wolosky for councilman on May 11 and I am asking you to do the same because he knows how your government should be serving you.
Phillip Lid
Sparta
