It has been a long two months.....  running for any public office is not really fun.  It gets personal - sometimes too personal.  It brings out a different side of people.  I have never been involved to 'play' politics.  I only got involved to try and make a difference.  But that difference doesn't start by getting elected, or serving in an official position.  The difference starts everyday - the little things, which make up the big things.  
Maybe that view is what makes an election difficult.  I want people to judge and vote based on my past dedication - not my future promises.  I want to be judged by what I have done and what I AM doing, not by what I 'promise' to do.  The whole experience was stressful.  My blood pressure as already high - I think it only went higher.  Add that to everything else in my life and there were a few times I thought the world was crashing around me.  
Thank goodness I have a great support system - a great family and great friends who are always willing to listen.  You can't ask for anything else - well, except to win.  And that I did.  There was a lot of pressure from a local 'questionable' business to get in three new candidates who would forward the mayor's perspective.  There were some other great options.  It was close - but I was happy to see that I received support that I did.  
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Another four years......  Cannon will be starting kindergarten and Monica will be starting college......  I feel older already!  It's hard to believe when I started on the council Ryker was 15 months, Monica was almost 10.
The age thing is crazy.....but I love you tons and only wish you the best! (We are getting old....slowly....but it is happening.) Together we will age! Ha Ha
ReplyDeleteThanks! I still think I'm 25 and can't imagine where all these kids came from..... and how they got so old so fast!
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