A year from now...

At this time next year, I will have decided, and hopefully picked up the packets to officially file as a mayoral canidate for the town of Riddle, Or.

I suddenly wish I had a crystal ball so I could know what my desicion turned out and I wouldn't be constantly wondering.

I want to do it, I've had four years to make this choice and I REALLY want to do it. I'm just...scared out of my bloody mind. I have no idea what I'm doing, I was choosen by the buisnesses of Riddle as their canadate to 'make changes'. But they don't exactly have lessons to prepare you for becoming a mayor in school, I wouldn't even know what to day the day after the election (er, If I won, I know what I would be doing the day after if I lost).

But then again...this town needs someone new. Someone who isn't bogged down by the politics of living here, someone who doesn't toe the line of the City Council and is willing to fight for what we need. Someone who actually shows up and gets shit done, not take vacations every time something's going on.

I want to turn the old grocery store into a skate park for kids (ramps and all, with a shades area for parents/younger kids). I want to revitalize downtown, not with crappy flowers, flags and the 'pocket park', but by working with the shops, supporting our new buisnesses, repealing the 'no loitering' ordanence and trying to bring in more buisnesses to get people downtown and shopping.

I want to sell the land up the hill that the city owns to build housing for our town to expand a bit (there was a recent hoopla about how our town can't grow yet more people are moving in...it could grow if we release some of the land the city is sitting on and doing nothing with, to build more houses, giving the small families of this town a chance to own their own homes instead of renting.

I want to re-do the city ordanences to get rid of what is really making this town ugly, instead of picking on the innocent home-owners. I want to fight the meth flooding our town and give the people a chance to not only get clean but get a better life. I want to work with the school board and schools to eradicate the bulling that is epidemic and get kicks back on the right track to a decent education.

I want to work with the church groups and the senior groups to build a community vegtable garden with the 'fruits' of the labor going to the food bank.

I want to shake up this sleepy town and make them realize that they can't keep ignoring the problems and only focusing on their own life. We're all here together and it's time we acted like a god damn community instead of a group of strangers forced to live together.

A year from now…

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

At this time next year, I will have decided, and hopefully picked up the packets to officially file as a mayoral canidate for the town of Riddle, Or.

I suddenly wish I had a crystal ball so I could know what my desicion turned out and I wouldn’t be constantly wondering.

I want to do it, I’ve had four years to make this choice and I REALLY want to do it. I’m just…scared out of my bloody mind. I have no idea what I’m doing, I was choosen by the buisnesses of Riddle as their canadate to ‘make changes’. But they don’t exactly have lessons to prepare you for becoming a mayor in school, I wouldn’t even know what to day the day after the election (er, If I won, I know what I would be doing the day after if I lost).

But then again…this town needs someone new. Someone who isn’t bogged down by the politics of living here, someone who doesn’t toe the line of the City Council and is willing to fight for what we need. Someone who actually shows up and gets shit done, not take vacations every time something’s going on.

I want to turn the old grocery store into a skate park for kids (ramps and all, with a shades area for parents/younger kids). I want to revitalize downtown, not with crappy flowers, flags and the ‘pocket park’, but by working with the shops, supporting our new buisnesses, repealing the ‘no loitering’ ordanence and trying to bring in more buisnesses to get people downtown and shopping.

I want to sell the land up the hill that the city owns to build housing for our town to expand a bit (there was a recent hoopla about how our town can’t grow yet more people are moving in…it could grow if we release some of the land the city is sitting on and doing nothing with, to build more houses, giving the small families of this town a chance to own their own homes instead of renting.

I want to re-do the city ordanences to get rid of what is really making this town ugly, instead of picking on the innocent home-owners. I want to fight the meth flooding our town and give the people a chance to not only get clean but get a better life. I want to work with the school board and schools to eradicate the bulling that is epidemic and get kicks back on the right track to a decent education.

I want to work with the church groups and the senior groups to build a community vegtable garden with the ‘fruits’ of the labor going to the food bank.

I want to shake up this sleepy town and make them realize that they can’t keep ignoring the problems and only focusing on their own life. We’re all here together and it’s time we acted like a god damn community instead of a group of strangers forced to live together.