Guest Columnist Candace Thomas
To become elected today' is hard enough and being a woman increases the pressure. Try starting with local seats in your community. Have your name to be known for keeping your word and your promises. You should always run a clean campaign, no one likes a dirty ran campaign. A trustworthy campaign manager is also a must. Be an active member in your community. Also try to be available to the public to listen to their concerns. Raising funds to pay for the campaign is also needed.
We as women need to show how to take responsibility for our actions as well as those of others. Today's society has moved away from strong morals. We try to teach our children to respect themselves as well as others. Now lets start using these standards to become more respected public officials. We have seen enough of the backstabbing and under handed elections. If we could bring back some of the higher moral standards to politics I think we would see a huge change in our failing system. I think women are the only way this can be done because the amount of nurturing it will take can only come from a woman. A mother can cradle the community and truly give a caring look into productive changes.
Politics and government bodies are only as good as we make them. If our state senators would listen more to the people who voted them into office, we may be able to make positive changes for our communities, like lowering taxes and raising wages. We need to reduce the need of more government, while working with the people to raise everyone's morals and standards so more laws are not necessary. There is so little trust and respect in our elected officials now that there is no way to raise standards until more women occupy more seats in our government.
While women make up more than half of all elected offices in other countries, here in the United States we hold only 20% of all elected seats. Women are working hard to make the necessary changes to hold higher end elected positions. With this comes the need for more help and financial backing to pay for the costly campaign trails. Lets help change this nations way of looking at women in public offices and elect the more capable women to those seats.
Candace Thomas is a 2009 Graduate of Madison County High School, Madison, Virginia.
To become elected today' is hard enough and being a woman increases the pressure. Try starting with local seats in your community. Have your name to be known for keeping your word and your promises. You should always run a clean campaign, no one likes a dirty ran campaign. A trustworthy campaign manager is also a must. Be an active member in your community. Also try to be available to the public to listen to their concerns. Raising funds to pay for the campaign is also needed.
We as women need to show how to take responsibility for our actions as well as those of others. Today's society has moved away from strong morals. We try to teach our children to respect themselves as well as others. Now lets start using these standards to become more respected public officials. We have seen enough of the backstabbing and under handed elections. If we could bring back some of the higher moral standards to politics I think we would see a huge change in our failing system. I think women are the only way this can be done because the amount of nurturing it will take can only come from a woman. A mother can cradle the community and truly give a caring look into productive changes.
Politics and government bodies are only as good as we make them. If our state senators would listen more to the people who voted them into office, we may be able to make positive changes for our communities, like lowering taxes and raising wages. We need to reduce the need of more government, while working with the people to raise everyone's morals and standards so more laws are not necessary. There is so little trust and respect in our elected officials now that there is no way to raise standards until more women occupy more seats in our government.
While women make up more than half of all elected offices in other countries, here in the United States we hold only 20% of all elected seats. Women are working hard to make the necessary changes to hold higher end elected positions. With this comes the need for more help and financial backing to pay for the costly campaign trails. Lets help change this nations way of looking at women in public offices and elect the more capable women to those seats.
Candace Thomas is a 2009 Graduate of Madison County High School, Madison, Virginia.
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