Complacency is not an Option: Run for Local Office

This week Minnesotans will have had an opportunity to show their true convictions and participate in something that will undoubtedly change their lives forever.  What might this be?  If you said, “attend Conan O’Brien’s Prohibited Tour at the Orpheum,” it would have been a worthy guess (still bummed I didn’t get a chance to snag a ticket).  I’m afraid you need to try again.  Any others?  Well, for the very few of you who said run for local office, you are correct!  No prizes awarded yet, anyway….

For two weeks, from May 18 until June 1, individuals will have an opportunity to file for offices such as city council, county commissioner, mayor, county attorney, and school board to name a few.  Ever consider running before?  Think it doesn’t matter?  I beg to differ.

In 2007, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Minnesota’s local government employed roughly 250,000 people, over three times the number employed at the state level.  Currently Minnesota ranks amongst the highest in per-capita tax burdens in the nation.  At the current rate Minnesota will collect and spend about $6,000 per person, NOT taxpayer, in our state each year.  These numbers are not reflected in decisions made by Washington, but instead, predominately made by those elected to the offices I cited above.

There can be no denying that the foundation of our democracy starts at the local and state level.  The ability to change the story, laid out by the aforementioned statistics, only exists at first reforming the way government works and that begins at the bottom up, at the local level.

We need candidates for mayor, city council and school board who are entrenched in the ideals of economic freedom and personal liberty.  These offices are the building blocks necessary toward re-establishing the principles that our founding fathers had envisioned and that have made our country the envy of world.

Never run for office before or want more guidance on how to run a successful candidacy?  No problem, we at American Majority https://www.americanmajority.org/ are here to provide you with the resources and tools to ensure that you will have what it takes to win.  All you need to do is attend our upcoming Candidate/Activist Training in Maple Grove, MN on June 26.  Trust me, it will be time well spent.

As Alexis De Tocqueville states in Democracy in America, “The prospect really does frighten me that (men and women) may finally become so engrossed in a crowd by love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right.”

Although he wrote this over 175 years ago, De Tocqueville’s words still ring true today.  We cannot afford to be complacent.  If we want to change the way that government fundamentally operates, we need to start being engaged today at the local level and perhaps even make a “sudden energetic effort” to run for office.

For those conservatives who have already filed to run for local office, I thank you, and for those considering, I urge you to do so, it is not too late. Our state desperately needs your leadership to “set things right.”