Is it a fixed election? The question came up at a recent event.

In southeast Colorado caucus straw poles, the people were told to vote a certain way. That’s the accusation. When the specific officials were contacted, they replied that they were voting for a specific leader, “who is trusted by party leaders” for many years. Um… politics as usual?

As yet another election comes before us, the opportunity to make a difference in Washington, D.C. arises. There’s no time like the present to make your voice heard. The political machine currently in office isn’t working and YOU have an opportunity to fire the representatives in Washington who have chosen NOT to listen to the voice of the people.

A few realities you may not have heard about the process of electing public officials…

If a candidate is an attorney, he/she fits in with more than 60% of the current elected officials in Washington. He not only has an edge on the games currently being played, but his agenda is dramatized by his ability to read the laws and his interest is in writing new law. Never in history have we needed LESS law to be written than today, when the people are overrun with Constitution fighting NEW laws that shouldn’t be on the books.

If a candidate is associated with Lobbyists, he/she fits in with more than 80% of the current elected officials who have an agenda in Washington. Not only is he already being given money to run on a “traditional” ticket, but he’s being hounded on a daily basis to vote as per the lobbyists choice and NOT the choice of the people. Lobbyists not only have an agenda, they have money, and political candidates who are already working out of the pocket of a lobbyist, will be doting on lobbyists when the next Bill comes across their desk. Will they listen to the people? NO. They will turn their ear to the lobbyists who are filling their pockets.

In order to stop the pocket filling, law writing agendas in Washington, we must start using some backbone at the polls. Vote for men and women with integrity who have run fiscally sound campaigns and elect men and women who have experienced life in REAL American Business not just in the Washington realm of Political access. Stop letting local “officials” tell you how to vote and start learning about the leadership of your country on your own, using the sound logic and good sense God gave you.