On April the 17th I joined others here in Hammondsville with the 'FairTax" rally. I arrived about an hour early so I could get set up for the petition drive to have the city audited. We gathered a few signatures in our effort to bring accountability to our elected leaders.
What I found amusing about this day was the worker ant mentality of the people as they circled the driveway to drop off the tax returns. There was no hostility towards one another and everyone was much maligned about getting in line for their turn at the dropbox. Apparently the government school system has done a rather well job on teaching conformity. On a day when aggression should've been at an all time high the population was rather well mannered.
To a degree I find this trend a little bothersome, has the population become so complacent that handing over 20% or more of your income is considered something that should and has to be done?
Have we become compliant to the HUGE leviathan(GOVERNMENT)?
In watching the display before me I wonder if the GREAT men and women of yesteryear would've had this attitude if government took almost half of what they earned?
Some people jump up and down and hollar and scream to get the attention of people. These types of people are in all political parties. Many people call these types "activist" and the sheer mention of that name has people backing away from the label because of the negative connotation.
We as citizens of this country can only redress government in this manner since trying to evict a sitting member of Congress has almost become impossible if not improbable.
When "we the people"become informed of what government is doing to us and then turn that anger towards our elected officials at the ballot box then we the citizenry will regain the "power" assured us in the Constitution.
With government in control of educating the masses have the people lost the will to fight for what is RIGHTFULLY THEIRS.
Is the endless bickering amoungest the two political parties bringing about an end that people are aware of what their representative is doing? So many people vote the party line with no regard to whether that individual person agrees with their ideology, that we are no longer a nation of individual ideas.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Who said we have a representative government
In one corner we have the owners of a dog that has been deemed to be vicious.
You already have guessed who is in the other corner "City Government."
On the night that this topic came up on the city council docket there were over 50 people present to speak against this proposed ordinance, while the people in favor of this ordinance could be counted on one hand.
I don't know anyone that has a Pitbull that has attacked anyone, however we have had attacks in this city which got widespread attention with all the news media coverage. The last attack was an unattended child that had wandered off and into the back yard of the dog. I don't blame the dog for attacking the child since the dog probably assumed that the child was intruding into an area that it didn't belong in.
There will be those that will say the dog should've known that the intruder was only a child and the dog should've never attacked.
I wonder why the dog is at fault and not the parents that left their child unattended and unsupervised?
I'm not an uncompassionate person but I do believe there is enough blame in these stories to go around.
I've seen Pitbulls be as gentle as any other dog, and I've seen chihuahua become obsessed with attacking people, and yet these dogs are never labeled for RFiD chips.
As a citizen of Springfield, I'm sorry to say if I owned a Pitbull at this point I wouldn't lawfully turn over my dog to government.
Pitbulls are chipped today and should I dare say juvenile deliquents will be next in line?
City embarks on pit bull PR campaign
Along with a litany of requirements, the dogs must be registered annually.
News-Leader staff
Springfield's new pit bull ordinance goes into full effect Oct. 16, the city announced Monday.
But the Springfield-Greene County Health Department has already begun a public information campaign about the new requirements for pit bull dogs living inside the city limits.
www.springfieldmove.com
According to the ordinance, city residents may keep pit bull dogs within the city limits only if they follow these regulations:
# Pit bulls must be registered annually with a $50 fee.
# Pit bulls must be vaccinated for rabies.
# Pit bulls must be spayed or neutered.
# Pit bulls must be microchipped.
# Pit bulls must be kept in a secure, fenced enclosure while on the owner's property.
# A sign at least 8 inches by 10 inches that reads "Pit Bull Dog" must be clearly displayed at all entrances to the owner's property.
# When off the owner's property, the pit bull must be leashed and muzzled.
# Owners must notify authorities within five days if the pit bull is lost, stolen, dies or has puppies.
# New litters of puppies must be registered following the same guidelines, in order to stay within the city limits.
The Springfield City Council approved the new law April 17.
Starting June 5, pit bull owners can begin registering their dogs with the city's health department, by appointment only. Scheduling for appointments begins May 15.
The appointments will take place at the Springfield Animal Shelter, 4002 N. Farmer Ave.
Dogs may be microchipped by health department staff, unless the owner provides proof the procedure has already been conducted by a veterinarian.
For more information, call the Pit Bull Information Line at 864-1166 or visit http://health.springfieldmogov.org.
For a more common sense approach to government
VOTE
MARTZ4MISSOURI
tom martz
You already have guessed who is in the other corner "City Government."
On the night that this topic came up on the city council docket there were over 50 people present to speak against this proposed ordinance, while the people in favor of this ordinance could be counted on one hand.
I don't know anyone that has a Pitbull that has attacked anyone, however we have had attacks in this city which got widespread attention with all the news media coverage. The last attack was an unattended child that had wandered off and into the back yard of the dog. I don't blame the dog for attacking the child since the dog probably assumed that the child was intruding into an area that it didn't belong in.
There will be those that will say the dog should've known that the intruder was only a child and the dog should've never attacked.
I wonder why the dog is at fault and not the parents that left their child unattended and unsupervised?
I'm not an uncompassionate person but I do believe there is enough blame in these stories to go around.
I've seen Pitbulls be as gentle as any other dog, and I've seen chihuahua become obsessed with attacking people, and yet these dogs are never labeled for RFiD chips.
As a citizen of Springfield, I'm sorry to say if I owned a Pitbull at this point I wouldn't lawfully turn over my dog to government.
Pitbulls are chipped today and should I dare say juvenile deliquents will be next in line?
City embarks on pit bull PR campaign
Along with a litany of requirements, the dogs must be registered annually.
News-Leader staff
Springfield's new pit bull ordinance goes into full effect Oct. 16, the city announced Monday.
But the Springfield-Greene County Health Department has already begun a public information campaign about the new requirements for pit bull dogs living inside the city limits.
www.springfieldmove.com
According to the ordinance, city residents may keep pit bull dogs within the city limits only if they follow these regulations:
# Pit bulls must be registered annually with a $50 fee.
# Pit bulls must be vaccinated for rabies.
# Pit bulls must be spayed or neutered.
# Pit bulls must be microchipped.
# Pit bulls must be kept in a secure, fenced enclosure while on the owner's property.
# A sign at least 8 inches by 10 inches that reads "Pit Bull Dog" must be clearly displayed at all entrances to the owner's property.
# When off the owner's property, the pit bull must be leashed and muzzled.
# Owners must notify authorities within five days if the pit bull is lost, stolen, dies or has puppies.
# New litters of puppies must be registered following the same guidelines, in order to stay within the city limits.
The Springfield City Council approved the new law April 17.
Starting June 5, pit bull owners can begin registering their dogs with the city's health department, by appointment only. Scheduling for appointments begins May 15.
The appointments will take place at the Springfield Animal Shelter, 4002 N. Farmer Ave.
Dogs may be microchipped by health department staff, unless the owner provides proof the procedure has already been conducted by a veterinarian.
For more information, call the Pit Bull Information Line at 864-1166 or visit http://health.springfieldmogov.org.
For a more common sense approach to government
VOTE
MARTZ4MISSOURI
tom martz
Monday, April 24, 2006
What makes a good candidate
I hear all the time people complaining about the lack of good candidates to run for school boards, city councils and the like.
I wonder what makes a good candidate?
could it be the little letter representing the political party at the end of their name?
We have some here in town that believe a good candidate has a "r" after their name. Most of our city council and school board members and the city leaders carry this "r" moniker, but yet the people still complain. I thought this is what they wanted someone with an "r" after the proper name.
I live in an area that is heavily populated with republicans and yet our city leaders are doing their damnest to allow the good ole boys network to prosper here in John Q Hammondville, and they do this with the acknowledgement of the democrats.
I'm sorry to say but the elephant and jackass has merged to become a premier spending socialist idealog. There is no TRUE difference between the two.
Both parties use subsidies to pay for the votes of voters.
Both parties spend money by the fistful then blame the other party for HUGE deficits.
Both parties proclaim to be in favor of the 2nd amendment(to an extent).
Both parties claim to be the party of the average joe, but when joe isn't paying attention they steal him blind.
Both parties proclaim to be in favor of the 1st amendment(to an extent).
One party wants religious beliefs to be taught by government educators, while the other party proclaims there is "a seperation of church and state" in the constitution.
Neither party understands;
The Tenth Amendment provides that powers the Constitution does not delegate to the United States and does not prohibit the states from having are "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The phrase "or to the people", somewhat puzzling as to its applicability, was included to prevent this clause from overriding limitations on State powers within the States' respective constitutions.
The people through the process of government education clearly have forgotten that we as a country are a representative republic and not a democracy.
Listen to our selected leaders both "left" and "right" and to a man or woman narily a one will mention that this country is a representative republic and it was set up this way by the founders of this nation so the people would retain the power of government.
A Google search of political speeches containing the word democracy will garner over a million hits.
It's your country and it is your choice to how we as a country are going to continue, I hope that many of you wake up in time.
VOTE,
MARTZ4MISSOURI
for the betterment of all missourians.
tom martz
I wonder what makes a good candidate?
could it be the little letter representing the political party at the end of their name?
We have some here in town that believe a good candidate has a "r" after their name. Most of our city council and school board members and the city leaders carry this "r" moniker, but yet the people still complain. I thought this is what they wanted someone with an "r" after the proper name.
I live in an area that is heavily populated with republicans and yet our city leaders are doing their damnest to allow the good ole boys network to prosper here in John Q Hammondville, and they do this with the acknowledgement of the democrats.
I'm sorry to say but the elephant and jackass has merged to become a premier spending socialist idealog. There is no TRUE difference between the two.
Both parties use subsidies to pay for the votes of voters.
Both parties spend money by the fistful then blame the other party for HUGE deficits.
Both parties proclaim to be in favor of the 2nd amendment(to an extent).
Both parties claim to be the party of the average joe, but when joe isn't paying attention they steal him blind.
Both parties proclaim to be in favor of the 1st amendment(to an extent).
One party wants religious beliefs to be taught by government educators, while the other party proclaims there is "a seperation of church and state" in the constitution.
Neither party understands;
The Tenth Amendment provides that powers the Constitution does not delegate to the United States and does not prohibit the states from having are "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The phrase "or to the people", somewhat puzzling as to its applicability, was included to prevent this clause from overriding limitations on State powers within the States' respective constitutions.
The people through the process of government education clearly have forgotten that we as a country are a representative republic and not a democracy.
Listen to our selected leaders both "left" and "right" and to a man or woman narily a one will mention that this country is a representative republic and it was set up this way by the founders of this nation so the people would retain the power of government.
A Google search of political speeches containing the word democracy will garner over a million hits.
It's your country and it is your choice to how we as a country are going to continue, I hope that many of you wake up in time.
VOTE,
MARTZ4MISSOURI
for the betterment of all missourians.
tom martz
Sunday, April 16, 2006
putting caps on election spending
Have you ever wondered why politicians will spend 20 to 30 times more money then the job actually pays?
Does it make sense for a person to spend 1 million dollars to get elected to a job that pays $35,000 annually?
Should there be spending caps placed on spending for an elected seat?
I believe there should!!!!
How else do the individuals get political power back from the politicians?
Imagine if you would a person running for office only being allowed to spend the equivalent of a years salary at that political job on their campaign?
Would other people be willing to or at least afford to be able to run a political campaign?
I would muster a guess at yes. The average person knows it cost at least 20 times more money to be elected then what they will make in a full term of their elected position.
Does the thirst for this POWER drive one to lose sanity of the obvious. In order to get this type of money into your political campaign coffers, YOU will OWE many favors to many people.
I won't be spending myself into oblivion just to get elected into the state HoR, but I can and will do my duty to state and individual just as well as the HIGH dollar candidates.
I don't believe money in campaigns does anything but make a candidate beholden to those that have filled the campaign coffers.
NFL, NBA, NHL, just about every major sporting series has spending caps in place to make the playing field more competitive. I disagree with this thought process for individual sports but it seems to work and the owners of each team have agreed to these demands and therefore it wasn't demanded of them to be compliant. Even NASCAR is limited teams to ownership of 4 cars and they are actually going to tell the teams what type of car body will be used. I'm a huge NASCAR fan and I can see how NASCAR, the sanctioning body, is starting to mirror the federal government. Be compliant or else, imagine the NFL telling teams how many of each individual position they must carry on the roster.
Sorry for the off track. I believe spending caps on campaigns would be a good idea and it would allow the individual to have more control over the elected official. An elected official can raise as much money as they want, however there would be strict guidelines on how much could be spent on a campaign depending on the position the individual is seeking.
I don't have the hardcore numbers for this idea yet but it is gathering steam inside my head.
Granted I firmly realize that the 1st amendment and the SCOTUS has ruled that spending money is the equivalent to free speech. I've also come to realize that term limits aren't defined in the Constitution and then should therefore be ruled unconstitutional.
The people of the United States need to rise up and make there voices heard.
only you can change the politics of normalcy VOTE
tom martz
Does it make sense for a person to spend 1 million dollars to get elected to a job that pays $35,000 annually?
Should there be spending caps placed on spending for an elected seat?
I believe there should!!!!
How else do the individuals get political power back from the politicians?
Imagine if you would a person running for office only being allowed to spend the equivalent of a years salary at that political job on their campaign?
Would other people be willing to or at least afford to be able to run a political campaign?
I would muster a guess at yes. The average person knows it cost at least 20 times more money to be elected then what they will make in a full term of their elected position.
Does the thirst for this POWER drive one to lose sanity of the obvious. In order to get this type of money into your political campaign coffers, YOU will OWE many favors to many people.
I won't be spending myself into oblivion just to get elected into the state HoR, but I can and will do my duty to state and individual just as well as the HIGH dollar candidates.
I don't believe money in campaigns does anything but make a candidate beholden to those that have filled the campaign coffers.
NFL, NBA, NHL, just about every major sporting series has spending caps in place to make the playing field more competitive. I disagree with this thought process for individual sports but it seems to work and the owners of each team have agreed to these demands and therefore it wasn't demanded of them to be compliant. Even NASCAR is limited teams to ownership of 4 cars and they are actually going to tell the teams what type of car body will be used. I'm a huge NASCAR fan and I can see how NASCAR, the sanctioning body, is starting to mirror the federal government. Be compliant or else, imagine the NFL telling teams how many of each individual position they must carry on the roster.
Sorry for the off track. I believe spending caps on campaigns would be a good idea and it would allow the individual to have more control over the elected official. An elected official can raise as much money as they want, however there would be strict guidelines on how much could be spent on a campaign depending on the position the individual is seeking.
I don't have the hardcore numbers for this idea yet but it is gathering steam inside my head.
Granted I firmly realize that the 1st amendment and the SCOTUS has ruled that spending money is the equivalent to free speech. I've also come to realize that term limits aren't defined in the Constitution and then should therefore be ruled unconstitutional.
The people of the United States need to rise up and make there voices heard.
only you can change the politics of normalcy VOTE
tom martz
Congratulations Tulsa
It appears that the city of Tulsa,OK can now go into the record books along side Washington D.C.
Yes the citizenry of the District of Criminals placed Marion Berry back into power after he had served time for cocaine possession.
The citizenry of Tulsa has elected a person that it has been proven, she voted twice during the presidential campaign of 2000. Yes my friends the Bush/Gore fiasco. Kathy Taylor, newly elected mayor of Tulsa, voted absentee for Mr. Gore in her residency state of Fl. Then she turns around and votes for Mr. Bush in her home state of OK. Could say she was making sure she had her bases covered. It is clearly against the law to cast two ballots during one election, but if you are a member of the highly maligned then these simple rules don't apply to you. Ms. Taylor won by 51% to 47%. A third party candidate came in third with 2% of the votes cast.
One could say that a Bush operative voted for Mr. Bush and then signed on the line of Ms. Taylor. Highly unlikely since Ms. Taylor lives in a rather well to do area and these types of mistakes don't happen. Being a democrat though she has certain priviledges that others of us don't have.
Most people of any decency would've recussed themselves in this matter, but one shouldn't expect this of anyone in the major two political parties, because after all they are the ruling class of American.
Mayor's Race: Voting Complaints: Taylor's eligibility being challenged
By P.J. LASSEK World Staff Writer
3/3/2006
A top campaign staffer for mayoral candidate Don McCorkell helped a Tulsa woman draft voting complaints filed Thursday at the Tulsa County Election Board against McCorkell's Democratic opponent, Kathy Taylor.
The complaints come only four days ahead of Tuesday's primary election as a Oklahoma Poll indicates McCorkell is trailing Taylor by a sizeable 22 percent margin.
Taylor's eligibility to hold the mayor's seat is being challenged because she allegedly wasn't a "qualified elector" in Tulsa at the time she filed for office because she was registered to vote in two states.
Taylor is accused of giving false information on her Tulsa County voter registration. A probe also is being sought into whether she voted twice in the 2000 presidential election.
Veretta Carter said she was told by McCorkell's campaign manager, Marvin Branham, how to write the complaints and what state laws to cite.
Branham said Carter was having trouble drafting a complaint and sought help from the McCorkell office.
"Here he goes again," Taylor said about McCorkell.
"This is just another campaign attack orchestrated by a desperate politician," she said. "My opponent seems intent on engaging in the politics of personal destruction, and I simply will not play at that level."
Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said any complaint must go through an investigative agency before being presented to the District Attorney's Office.
Carter said she filed the complaints because of comments that Taylor made earlier this week that "really ticked me off."
On Tuesday, McCorkell held a news conference in which he revealed records that indicated Taylor voted twice in the 2000 presidential election.
Taylor not only vehemently denied that charge, but questioned why she would jeopardize her legal career to cast a second presidential vote in Oklahoma that would not have changed the outcome of the race.
Taylor said she voted by absentee ballot in Florida and can't explain a 2000 voting-history record that indicates she voted in person in Tulsa.
Polling books that could clear up the discrepancy have been destroyed.
Tulsa County Election Board Secretary Gene Pace said that errors do occur on voter histories because of the "human factor," but he figures it is a less than 5 percent margin of error.
Oklahoma State Election Secretary Michael Clingman said there are three possibilities for how Taylor got credited for voting -- a mistake in the data transfer, another person inadvertently signed the wrong line in the polling book or Taylor voted.
Carter said she got angry when Taylor questioned why a person like herself would try to vote twice.
"I'm trying to figure out what that means, a person like her," Carter said. "Just because she has money does it make you above the law?"
Carter, a black woman, said to say that one vote wouldn't make a difference "was disrespectful. Our people have had to fight and struggle to vote."
Carter is the executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services. In 2005, the city was ordered to use taxpayer money to pay back $496,811 in Community Development Block Grant program funds that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development determined were owed by Neighborhood Housing Services.
Carter's complaint questions why Taylor didn't list Florida as her last place of residency when she registered to vote in Tulsa in January 2004. The complaint claims Taylor instead listed a former Tulsa home.
Taylor moved back to Tulsa from Florida in late 2002.
Although the three-year statute of limitations has expired on investigating whether she voted twice in 2000, the complaint seeks to have that extended to seven years because Taylor allegedly voted in Oklahoma while still being registered in Florida.
You can make a difference by Voting your conscience and not a political party.
I am the only candidate in the 139th district that will FIGHT for smaller government, spending caps, and the freedoms and liberties of the people of the state of Missouri.
to make a political contribution please make checks payable to "Vote4Tom" and send them to 334 East Kearney St. Suite #135 Springfield, MO 65803
Yes the citizenry of the District of Criminals placed Marion Berry back into power after he had served time for cocaine possession.
The citizenry of Tulsa has elected a person that it has been proven, she voted twice during the presidential campaign of 2000. Yes my friends the Bush/Gore fiasco. Kathy Taylor, newly elected mayor of Tulsa, voted absentee for Mr. Gore in her residency state of Fl. Then she turns around and votes for Mr. Bush in her home state of OK. Could say she was making sure she had her bases covered. It is clearly against the law to cast two ballots during one election, but if you are a member of the highly maligned then these simple rules don't apply to you. Ms. Taylor won by 51% to 47%. A third party candidate came in third with 2% of the votes cast.
One could say that a Bush operative voted for Mr. Bush and then signed on the line of Ms. Taylor. Highly unlikely since Ms. Taylor lives in a rather well to do area and these types of mistakes don't happen. Being a democrat though she has certain priviledges that others of us don't have.
Most people of any decency would've recussed themselves in this matter, but one shouldn't expect this of anyone in the major two political parties, because after all they are the ruling class of American.
Mayor's Race: Voting Complaints: Taylor's eligibility being challenged
By P.J. LASSEK World Staff Writer
3/3/2006
A top campaign staffer for mayoral candidate Don McCorkell helped a Tulsa woman draft voting complaints filed Thursday at the Tulsa County Election Board against McCorkell's Democratic opponent, Kathy Taylor.
The complaints come only four days ahead of Tuesday's primary election as a Oklahoma Poll indicates McCorkell is trailing Taylor by a sizeable 22 percent margin.
Taylor's eligibility to hold the mayor's seat is being challenged because she allegedly wasn't a "qualified elector" in Tulsa at the time she filed for office because she was registered to vote in two states.
Taylor is accused of giving false information on her Tulsa County voter registration. A probe also is being sought into whether she voted twice in the 2000 presidential election.
Veretta Carter said she was told by McCorkell's campaign manager, Marvin Branham, how to write the complaints and what state laws to cite.
Branham said Carter was having trouble drafting a complaint and sought help from the McCorkell office.
"Here he goes again," Taylor said about McCorkell.
"This is just another campaign attack orchestrated by a desperate politician," she said. "My opponent seems intent on engaging in the politics of personal destruction, and I simply will not play at that level."
Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said any complaint must go through an investigative agency before being presented to the District Attorney's Office.
Carter said she filed the complaints because of comments that Taylor made earlier this week that "really ticked me off."
On Tuesday, McCorkell held a news conference in which he revealed records that indicated Taylor voted twice in the 2000 presidential election.
Taylor not only vehemently denied that charge, but questioned why she would jeopardize her legal career to cast a second presidential vote in Oklahoma that would not have changed the outcome of the race.
Taylor said she voted by absentee ballot in Florida and can't explain a 2000 voting-history record that indicates she voted in person in Tulsa.
Polling books that could clear up the discrepancy have been destroyed.
Tulsa County Election Board Secretary Gene Pace said that errors do occur on voter histories because of the "human factor," but he figures it is a less than 5 percent margin of error.
Oklahoma State Election Secretary Michael Clingman said there are three possibilities for how Taylor got credited for voting -- a mistake in the data transfer, another person inadvertently signed the wrong line in the polling book or Taylor voted.
Carter said she got angry when Taylor questioned why a person like herself would try to vote twice.
"I'm trying to figure out what that means, a person like her," Carter said. "Just because she has money does it make you above the law?"
Carter, a black woman, said to say that one vote wouldn't make a difference "was disrespectful. Our people have had to fight and struggle to vote."
Carter is the executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services. In 2005, the city was ordered to use taxpayer money to pay back $496,811 in Community Development Block Grant program funds that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development determined were owed by Neighborhood Housing Services.
Carter's complaint questions why Taylor didn't list Florida as her last place of residency when she registered to vote in Tulsa in January 2004. The complaint claims Taylor instead listed a former Tulsa home.
Taylor moved back to Tulsa from Florida in late 2002.
Although the three-year statute of limitations has expired on investigating whether she voted twice in 2000, the complaint seeks to have that extended to seven years because Taylor allegedly voted in Oklahoma while still being registered in Florida.
You can make a difference by Voting your conscience and not a political party.
I am the only candidate in the 139th district that will FIGHT for smaller government, spending caps, and the freedoms and liberties of the people of the state of Missouri.
to make a political contribution please make checks payable to "Vote4Tom" and send them to 334 East Kearney St. Suite #135 Springfield, MO 65803
Friday, April 14, 2006
the city audit buzz
It seems like we are now firing on all cylinders. Peoples from many different organizations are rallying around this effort to have the city of Springfield audited.
Why you may ask would people want to have the city entity audited?
It seems the leaders of the city have made numerous promises in the past, by delaying pay raises or trading pay raises for other like minded services. These promises are now due and the city doesn't have the money to pay for these promises.
City Utilities which operates the local water treatment plant has had three pumps fail in the recent weeks that has put the water suppply system in jeopardy. The failure of these pumps can be narrowed down to be overworked equipment or lack of proper maintenance.
Both of these scenarios could've been avoided by having a spare pump or replacement parts on hand in case of an emergency.
I own a water treatment company in town and I have spare parts and equipment in case I have a customer which has a unit that fails to work. To my way of thinking this makes sense and hopefully this would also make sense to CU. Apparently not!!!!!!
And you wonder why we want to have the city audit. Where is this almost $213 million dollars going?
The cost of this audit is going to cost every man, woman, and child living in Springfield a grand total of $.53, to not have this audit done is costing over $24,000 an hour.
The city leaders will have you believing that the city is audited by KPMG every single year and everything is just fine. What the city doesn't tell you is that this so called "audit" is only balancing the checkbook. The city supplies the numbers and the receipts so therefore the books should balance.
The state will actually start asking the city leaders WHY this money is being spend in certain areas.
I ponder to think WHY the city leaders are so opposed to this audit? They say it is a waste of $$$$$$$$$$, but anytime the bureaucracy of government is questioned the better the people are.
These very same people that don't want the books opened for all to see would tell us that we should be open to the city leaders after all the only people that scoff at these ideas are people that are hiding something.
Sorry city leaders you can't play both sides of the court at the same time.
Only you can change politics by VOTING
"I choose to think for myself, therefore I vote Libertarian.
Tom Martz
Candidate for 139th
Why you may ask would people want to have the city entity audited?
It seems the leaders of the city have made numerous promises in the past, by delaying pay raises or trading pay raises for other like minded services. These promises are now due and the city doesn't have the money to pay for these promises.
City Utilities which operates the local water treatment plant has had three pumps fail in the recent weeks that has put the water suppply system in jeopardy. The failure of these pumps can be narrowed down to be overworked equipment or lack of proper maintenance.
Both of these scenarios could've been avoided by having a spare pump or replacement parts on hand in case of an emergency.
I own a water treatment company in town and I have spare parts and equipment in case I have a customer which has a unit that fails to work. To my way of thinking this makes sense and hopefully this would also make sense to CU. Apparently not!!!!!!
And you wonder why we want to have the city audit. Where is this almost $213 million dollars going?
The cost of this audit is going to cost every man, woman, and child living in Springfield a grand total of $.53, to not have this audit done is costing over $24,000 an hour.
The city leaders will have you believing that the city is audited by KPMG every single year and everything is just fine. What the city doesn't tell you is that this so called "audit" is only balancing the checkbook. The city supplies the numbers and the receipts so therefore the books should balance.
The state will actually start asking the city leaders WHY this money is being spend in certain areas.
I ponder to think WHY the city leaders are so opposed to this audit? They say it is a waste of $$$$$$$$$$, but anytime the bureaucracy of government is questioned the better the people are.
These very same people that don't want the books opened for all to see would tell us that we should be open to the city leaders after all the only people that scoff at these ideas are people that are hiding something.
Sorry city leaders you can't play both sides of the court at the same time.
Only you can change politics by VOTING
"I choose to think for myself, therefore I vote Libertarian.
Tom Martz
Candidate for 139th
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
What is a conspiracy
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=conspiracy
con·spir·a·cy Audio pronunciation of "conspiracy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kn-sp�r-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
First we have to define it before we can discuss it. You might ask WHAT does a conspiracy have to do with a campaign? I thought the same thing the other day while listening to our local talk radio show and local host.
It seems like our local host believes that anyone that doesn't BUY the "official" government story about 9-11 is a conspiracy minded liberal. Now I know our mystery host means well in his terminology since he is striving to become the next Sean Hannity, but really do we have to paint such a broad brush over everyone.
Our government being involved in cover-ups isn't really anything new and therefore when people question governments "official" story it should be expected. Questioning our government doesn't make a person a conspiracy nut or a liberal, however it will make a personknowledgeabledgable of how the system works.
One only need to read the following article to see how easy it is for government officials to cover-up information. I'm sure the people that swore the government was covering something up in this article was also known as a conspiracy nut.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The U.S. government's 40-year experiment on black men with syphilis
by Borgna Brunner
"The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens... clearly racist." —President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.
The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”
Using Human Beings as Laboratory Animals
The true nature of the experiment had to be kept from the subjects to ensure their cooperation. The sharecroppers' grossly disadvantaged lot in life made them easy to manipulate. Pleased at the prospect of free medical care—almost none of them had ever seen a doctor before—these unsophisticated and trusting men became the pawns in what James Jones, author of the excellent history on the subject, Bad Blood, identified as “the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.”
The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites—the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain.
Although the PHS touted the study as one of great scientific merit, from the outset its actual benefits were hazy. It took almost forty years before someone involved in the study took a hard and honest look at the end results, reporting that “nothing learned will prevent, find, or cure a single case of infectious syphilis or bring us closer to our basic mission of controlling venereal disease in the United States.”
When the experiment was brought to the attention of the media in 1972, news anchor Harry Reasoner described it as an experiment that “used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.”
A Heavy Price in the Name of Bad Science
To ensure that the men would show up for a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment.”
The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed.
By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. How had these men been induced to endure a fatal disease in the name of science?
To persuade the community to support the experiment, one of the original doctors admitted it “was necessary to carry on this study under the guise of a demonstration and provide treatment.” At first, the men were prescribed the syphilis remedies of the day—bismuth, neoarsphenamine, and mercury— but in such small amounts that only 3 percent showed any improvement.
These token doses of medicine were good public relations and did not interfere with the true aims of the study. Eventually, all syphilis treatment was replaced with “pink medicine”—aspirin.
To ensure that the men would show up for a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment.” The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed.
As a doctor explained, “If the colored population becomes aware that accepting free hospital care means a post-mortem, every darky will leave Macon County...” Even the Surgeon General of the United States participated in enticing the men to remain in the experiment, sending them certificates of appreciation after 25 years in the study.
Following Doctors' Orders
It takes little imagination to ascribe racist attitudes to the white government officials who ran the experiment, but what can one make of the numerous African Americans who collaborated with them? The experiment's name comes from the Tuskegee Institute, the black university founded by Booker T. Washington. Its affiliated hospital lent the PHS its medical facilities for the study, and other predominantly black institutions as well as local black doctors also participated. A black nurse, Eunice Rivers, was a central figure in the experiment for most of its forty years.
The promise of recognition by a prestigious government agency may have obscured the troubling aspects of the study for some. A Tuskegee doctor, for example, praised “the educational advantages offered our interns and nurses as well as the added standing it will give the hospital.” Nurse Rivers explained her role as one of passive obedience: “we were taught that we never diagnosed, we never prescribed; we followed the doctor's instructions!”
It is clear that the men in the experiment trusted her and that she sincerely cared about their well-being, but her unquestioning submission to authority eclipsed her moral judgment. Even after the experiment was exposed to public scrutiny, she genuinely felt nothing ethical had been amiss.
One of the most chilling aspects of the experiment was how zealously the PHS kept these men from receiving treatment. When several nationwide campaigns to eradicate venereal disease came to Macon County, the men were prevented from participating. Even when penicillin—the first real cure for syphilis—was discovered in the 1940s, the Tuskegee men were deliberately denied the medication.
During World War II, 250 of the men registered for the draft and were consequently ordered to get treatment for syphilis, only to have the PHS exempt them. Pleased at their success, the PHS representative announced: “So far, we are keeping the known positive patients from getting treatment.” The experiment continued in spite of the Henderson Act (1943), a public health law requiring testing and treatment for venereal disease, and in spite of the World Health Organization's Declaration of Helsinki (1964), which specified that “informed consent” was needed for experiments involving human beings.
Blowing the Whistle
The PHS did not accept the media's comparison of Tuskegee with the experiments performed by Nazi doctors on Jewish victims during World War II. Yet the PHS offered the same defense offered at the Nuremberg trials — they were just carrying out orders.
The story finally broke in the Washington Star on July 25, 1972, in an article by Jean Heller of the Associated Press. Her source was Peter Buxtun, a former PHS venereal disease interviewer and one of the few whistle blowers over the years. The PHS, however, remained unrepentant, claiming the men had been “volunteers” and “were always happy to see the doctors,” and an Alabama state health officer who had been involved claimed “somebody is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.”
Under the glare of publicity, the government ended their experiment, and for the first time provided the men with effective medical treatment for syphilis. Fred Gray, a lawyer who had previously defended Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, filed a class action suit that provided a $10 million out-of-court settlement for the men and their families. Gray, however, named only whites and white organizations as defendants in the suit, portraying Tuskegee as a black and white case when it was in fact more complex than that—black doctors and institutions had been involved from beginning to end.
The PHS did not accept the media's comparison of Tuskegee with the appalling experiments performed by Nazi doctors on their Jewish victims during World War II. Yet in addition to the medical and racist parallels, the PHS offered the same morally bankrupt defense offered at the Nuremberg trials: they claimed they were just carrying out orders, mere cogs in the wheel of the PHS bureaucracy, exempt from personal responsibility.
The study's other justification—for the greater good of science—is equally spurious. Scientific protocol had been shoddy from the start. Since the men had in fact received some medication for syphilis in the beginning of the study, however inadequate, it thereby corrupted the outcome of a study of “untreated syphilis.”
You see Mr talk radio show host a person that questions government at all levels will never fall prey to swallowing the "official" story hook, line, and sinker. If questioning my government on the events of 9-11 make me a liberal then I guess I'll wear that label proudly. Unlike others I have viewed some aspects of the 9-11 footage that others choose to ignore because it doesn't fit into the agenda from which they speak. I will continue to keep my eyes open and not allow my mind to close, after all the mind is like a parachute it only works when open.
"I choose to think for myself, therefore I vote Libertarian"
remember only you can change the face of politics VOTE.
tom martz
HoR District 139 candidate
con·spir·a·cy Audio pronunciation of "conspiracy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kn-sp�r-s)
n. pl. con·spir·a·cies
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
First we have to define it before we can discuss it. You might ask WHAT does a conspiracy have to do with a campaign? I thought the same thing the other day while listening to our local talk radio show and local host.
It seems like our local host believes that anyone that doesn't BUY the "official" government story about 9-11 is a conspiracy minded liberal. Now I know our mystery host means well in his terminology since he is striving to become the next Sean Hannity, but really do we have to paint such a broad brush over everyone.
Our government being involved in cover-ups isn't really anything new and therefore when people question governments "official" story it should be expected. Questioning our government doesn't make a person a conspiracy nut or a liberal, however it will make a personknowledgeabledgable of how the system works.
One only need to read the following article to see how easy it is for government officials to cover-up information. I'm sure the people that swore the government was covering something up in this article was also known as a conspiracy nut.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The U.S. government's 40-year experiment on black men with syphilis
by Borgna Brunner
"The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens... clearly racist." —President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.
The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”
Using Human Beings as Laboratory Animals
The true nature of the experiment had to be kept from the subjects to ensure their cooperation. The sharecroppers' grossly disadvantaged lot in life made them easy to manipulate. Pleased at the prospect of free medical care—almost none of them had ever seen a doctor before—these unsophisticated and trusting men became the pawns in what James Jones, author of the excellent history on the subject, Bad Blood, identified as “the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.”
The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites—the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain.
Although the PHS touted the study as one of great scientific merit, from the outset its actual benefits were hazy. It took almost forty years before someone involved in the study took a hard and honest look at the end results, reporting that “nothing learned will prevent, find, or cure a single case of infectious syphilis or bring us closer to our basic mission of controlling venereal disease in the United States.”
When the experiment was brought to the attention of the media in 1972, news anchor Harry Reasoner described it as an experiment that “used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.”
A Heavy Price in the Name of Bad Science
To ensure that the men would show up for a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment.”
The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed.
By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. How had these men been induced to endure a fatal disease in the name of science?
To persuade the community to support the experiment, one of the original doctors admitted it “was necessary to carry on this study under the guise of a demonstration and provide treatment.” At first, the men were prescribed the syphilis remedies of the day—bismuth, neoarsphenamine, and mercury— but in such small amounts that only 3 percent showed any improvement.
These token doses of medicine were good public relations and did not interfere with the true aims of the study. Eventually, all syphilis treatment was replaced with “pink medicine”—aspirin.
To ensure that the men would show up for a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment.” The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed.
As a doctor explained, “If the colored population becomes aware that accepting free hospital care means a post-mortem, every darky will leave Macon County...” Even the Surgeon General of the United States participated in enticing the men to remain in the experiment, sending them certificates of appreciation after 25 years in the study.
Following Doctors' Orders
It takes little imagination to ascribe racist attitudes to the white government officials who ran the experiment, but what can one make of the numerous African Americans who collaborated with them? The experiment's name comes from the Tuskegee Institute, the black university founded by Booker T. Washington. Its affiliated hospital lent the PHS its medical facilities for the study, and other predominantly black institutions as well as local black doctors also participated. A black nurse, Eunice Rivers, was a central figure in the experiment for most of its forty years.
The promise of recognition by a prestigious government agency may have obscured the troubling aspects of the study for some. A Tuskegee doctor, for example, praised “the educational advantages offered our interns and nurses as well as the added standing it will give the hospital.” Nurse Rivers explained her role as one of passive obedience: “we were taught that we never diagnosed, we never prescribed; we followed the doctor's instructions!”
It is clear that the men in the experiment trusted her and that she sincerely cared about their well-being, but her unquestioning submission to authority eclipsed her moral judgment. Even after the experiment was exposed to public scrutiny, she genuinely felt nothing ethical had been amiss.
One of the most chilling aspects of the experiment was how zealously the PHS kept these men from receiving treatment. When several nationwide campaigns to eradicate venereal disease came to Macon County, the men were prevented from participating. Even when penicillin—the first real cure for syphilis—was discovered in the 1940s, the Tuskegee men were deliberately denied the medication.
During World War II, 250 of the men registered for the draft and were consequently ordered to get treatment for syphilis, only to have the PHS exempt them. Pleased at their success, the PHS representative announced: “So far, we are keeping the known positive patients from getting treatment.” The experiment continued in spite of the Henderson Act (1943), a public health law requiring testing and treatment for venereal disease, and in spite of the World Health Organization's Declaration of Helsinki (1964), which specified that “informed consent” was needed for experiments involving human beings.
Blowing the Whistle
The PHS did not accept the media's comparison of Tuskegee with the experiments performed by Nazi doctors on Jewish victims during World War II. Yet the PHS offered the same defense offered at the Nuremberg trials — they were just carrying out orders.
The story finally broke in the Washington Star on July 25, 1972, in an article by Jean Heller of the Associated Press. Her source was Peter Buxtun, a former PHS venereal disease interviewer and one of the few whistle blowers over the years. The PHS, however, remained unrepentant, claiming the men had been “volunteers” and “were always happy to see the doctors,” and an Alabama state health officer who had been involved claimed “somebody is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.”
Under the glare of publicity, the government ended their experiment, and for the first time provided the men with effective medical treatment for syphilis. Fred Gray, a lawyer who had previously defended Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, filed a class action suit that provided a $10 million out-of-court settlement for the men and their families. Gray, however, named only whites and white organizations as defendants in the suit, portraying Tuskegee as a black and white case when it was in fact more complex than that—black doctors and institutions had been involved from beginning to end.
The PHS did not accept the media's comparison of Tuskegee with the appalling experiments performed by Nazi doctors on their Jewish victims during World War II. Yet in addition to the medical and racist parallels, the PHS offered the same morally bankrupt defense offered at the Nuremberg trials: they claimed they were just carrying out orders, mere cogs in the wheel of the PHS bureaucracy, exempt from personal responsibility.
The study's other justification—for the greater good of science—is equally spurious. Scientific protocol had been shoddy from the start. Since the men had in fact received some medication for syphilis in the beginning of the study, however inadequate, it thereby corrupted the outcome of a study of “untreated syphilis.”
You see Mr talk radio show host a person that questions government at all levels will never fall prey to swallowing the "official" story hook, line, and sinker. If questioning my government on the events of 9-11 make me a liberal then I guess I'll wear that label proudly. Unlike others I have viewed some aspects of the 9-11 footage that others choose to ignore because it doesn't fit into the agenda from which they speak. I will continue to keep my eyes open and not allow my mind to close, after all the mind is like a parachute it only works when open.
"I choose to think for myself, therefore I vote Libertarian"
remember only you can change the face of politics VOTE.
tom martz
HoR District 139 candidate
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
it's for the children
to set the stage it was quite a quiet election and not a lot of hoopla over any of the ballot measures.
The voters have approved a 96.5 MILLION DOLLAR bond measure for repairs to be made to the schools and air conditioning. The benefactors of this measure were so quiet leading up to this election that you wouldn't have even know there was a tax increase measure on the ballot. Yes, I call it a tax increase; because, when the payments come due we will be hit with a tax increase to pay for it. I watched it happen year after year in California.
The voters would get talked into a ballot measure for a bond issue, after all it isn't a tax increase, to support pet projects then when the bill came due a tax increase was implemented to cover the cost. It took a few years but the populace started to figure this bait and switch out and told the politicians NO MORE TAXES. The politicians figured out how to get around this as well. They would ONLY apply this new levy to newly built homes in the area. The masses jumped at the chance to pass a tax increase on unsuspecting home buyers, to the point that large developers were asking for back room deals so the newly instituted tax wouldn't effect thier development.
The voters of John Q Hammondsville were snuckered by the silence and passed a measure that they believed was for the benefit of the children that wouldn't come back and hit them in the pocketbook. I long for the day when the electorate takes the job of these votes more seriously and actually researches how this is going to effect not only them, but the neighbors and the children that aren't quite tax paying age yet.
Almost by a two to one margin this went through. in a few years when the people complain about paying higher taxes NO ONE will remember this "bond measure" and what actually happened to the money.
If you are happy with the status quo, vote for your republican and democrat candidates. If you want CHANGE
VOTE4TOM Martz
next post will contain my views on the so-called conspiracy theories and those that disagree with the "official" government story.
If you would like to help my campaign donations can be mailed to
334 East Kearney Street #135
Springfield, MO 65803
The voters have approved a 96.5 MILLION DOLLAR bond measure for repairs to be made to the schools and air conditioning. The benefactors of this measure were so quiet leading up to this election that you wouldn't have even know there was a tax increase measure on the ballot. Yes, I call it a tax increase; because, when the payments come due we will be hit with a tax increase to pay for it. I watched it happen year after year in California.
The voters would get talked into a ballot measure for a bond issue, after all it isn't a tax increase, to support pet projects then when the bill came due a tax increase was implemented to cover the cost. It took a few years but the populace started to figure this bait and switch out and told the politicians NO MORE TAXES. The politicians figured out how to get around this as well. They would ONLY apply this new levy to newly built homes in the area. The masses jumped at the chance to pass a tax increase on unsuspecting home buyers, to the point that large developers were asking for back room deals so the newly instituted tax wouldn't effect thier development.
The voters of John Q Hammondsville were snuckered by the silence and passed a measure that they believed was for the benefit of the children that wouldn't come back and hit them in the pocketbook. I long for the day when the electorate takes the job of these votes more seriously and actually researches how this is going to effect not only them, but the neighbors and the children that aren't quite tax paying age yet.
Almost by a two to one margin this went through. in a few years when the people complain about paying higher taxes NO ONE will remember this "bond measure" and what actually happened to the money.
If you are happy with the status quo, vote for your republican and democrat candidates. If you want CHANGE
VOTE4TOM Martz
next post will contain my views on the so-called conspiracy theories and those that disagree with the "official" government story.
If you would like to help my campaign donations can be mailed to
334 East Kearney Street #135
Springfield, MO 65803
Saturday, April 01, 2006
a campaign none the less
Well I have to admit there is more to a political campaign then I ever imagined. Is it any wonder why people that aspire to become politicians join either the democrat or republican party?
These two parties are so well funded that most of the leg work has already been done for the eventual winner of the primary. What fun is that?
What happened to the days when someone that aspired to be a politician actually went out on their own and proceeded to do the legwork portion of the campaign? This is a new experience for me, not being a honed politician and all but I'm looking forward to meeting with as many people as I can that reside within this district. Taking the pulse of the local people to find out what bugs them the most.
I stand for Constitutional government and let the chips fall where they may.
On a side note we are getting closer to having the required signatures to get the city of Springfield audited. The more people become aware of the real issues the more they want to become involved in the process. I can see the city council right now trying to explain away the "good ole boy" practices that have been going on for years. The city leaders have made promises to the police, and the firefighters and then reneged on it. How can one trust the word of someone that continiously tries to stab you in the back?
When I first heard of this problem I tended to believe the city leaders, after all the police and firefighters unions will do anything to get "perks" for the men and women in blue.
Upon futher investigation I found my thought process to be flawed and found that the city leaders made many promises that are now being swept under the table.
Our downtown district is BOOMING but of course with the influx of taxpayers dollars it should be, but does the city have the justification to ignore the rest of the city while it concentrates on the downtown area????
Our Mayor seems to want to have us known as the "city of public parks" or that just might be his legacy that he saddles the taxpayers with when he finally leaves office. We have neighborhoods with NO sidewalks, streets with no crosswalks, areas where people can cross the street that have neither a crosswalk or a light to allow such a manuever, we also have sidewalks that don't allow handicap access. This is hardly the legacy of a "good" mayor or city council for that matter. How many millions of dollars has the ice arena lost since its inception into the city?
One per peeve of mine is the limited bike riding areas in and around town. For any bicycle riding enthusiasts riding on the north end of Springfield can be a lesson in vehicle dodging. Granted bicycles don't pay taxes nor do they collect taxes on the fuel consumption of a bicycle, but as a business owner, and homeowner here in Springfield I would expect that I or anyone else that chooses to do so could ride a bike in this city without the fear of being run over or off the road. After all I do pay my share of taxes to see to such. The south end of town has some nice walking/bike paths, but in order to get to them from the northend of town you take your life into your own hands to get to them.
It's going to be a great year and I look forward to hearing from the people to see if I can address their concerns.
Remember only you can change the status quo of government
VOTE
tom martz for 139th
These two parties are so well funded that most of the leg work has already been done for the eventual winner of the primary. What fun is that?
What happened to the days when someone that aspired to be a politician actually went out on their own and proceeded to do the legwork portion of the campaign? This is a new experience for me, not being a honed politician and all but I'm looking forward to meeting with as many people as I can that reside within this district. Taking the pulse of the local people to find out what bugs them the most.
I stand for Constitutional government and let the chips fall where they may.
On a side note we are getting closer to having the required signatures to get the city of Springfield audited. The more people become aware of the real issues the more they want to become involved in the process. I can see the city council right now trying to explain away the "good ole boy" practices that have been going on for years. The city leaders have made promises to the police, and the firefighters and then reneged on it. How can one trust the word of someone that continiously tries to stab you in the back?
When I first heard of this problem I tended to believe the city leaders, after all the police and firefighters unions will do anything to get "perks" for the men and women in blue.
Upon futher investigation I found my thought process to be flawed and found that the city leaders made many promises that are now being swept under the table.
Our downtown district is BOOMING but of course with the influx of taxpayers dollars it should be, but does the city have the justification to ignore the rest of the city while it concentrates on the downtown area????
Our Mayor seems to want to have us known as the "city of public parks" or that just might be his legacy that he saddles the taxpayers with when he finally leaves office. We have neighborhoods with NO sidewalks, streets with no crosswalks, areas where people can cross the street that have neither a crosswalk or a light to allow such a manuever, we also have sidewalks that don't allow handicap access. This is hardly the legacy of a "good" mayor or city council for that matter. How many millions of dollars has the ice arena lost since its inception into the city?
One per peeve of mine is the limited bike riding areas in and around town. For any bicycle riding enthusiasts riding on the north end of Springfield can be a lesson in vehicle dodging. Granted bicycles don't pay taxes nor do they collect taxes on the fuel consumption of a bicycle, but as a business owner, and homeowner here in Springfield I would expect that I or anyone else that chooses to do so could ride a bike in this city without the fear of being run over or off the road. After all I do pay my share of taxes to see to such. The south end of town has some nice walking/bike paths, but in order to get to them from the northend of town you take your life into your own hands to get to them.
It's going to be a great year and I look forward to hearing from the people to see if I can address their concerns.
Remember only you can change the status quo of government
VOTE
tom martz for 139th
Friday, March 31, 2006
only the beginning
Well it has finally happened "hell froze over" no not that just kidding. I made the trek last week and filed to run in congressional district 139.
I'm not a spit and polished politician, but I do have one item the other candidates may not have. What you may ask? I've never been a politicain. Some say you have to place experienced people in office in order to accomplish anything, but we've had experienced people in both state and federal government and all that has happened is the people have become COMPLIANT to the elected leaders. By my reading of the Constitution this isn't what the founding fathers had in mind when they formed this republic. YES a representative republic not a Democracy The citizenry was supposed to be able to communicate to the politicians and they in turn were supposed to be able to offer solutions to the peoples problems or concerns.
I've contacted my elected representative many times to express my desire for the "FairTax Act"(H.R. 25) to be implemented on the federal level so our nation can once again prosper and businesses will bring back the jobs to the United States. I don't believe my representative has even once heard my voice since he himself doesn't answer any calls.
Ever get the inclination you're being ignored? Welcome to the politics of the status quo. As a representative for the 139th I will answer the concerns of the constituents personally. That is a pledge to the people that elect me.
only YOU can change the direction of politics
VOTE
tom martz
I'm not a spit and polished politician, but I do have one item the other candidates may not have. What you may ask? I've never been a politicain. Some say you have to place experienced people in office in order to accomplish anything, but we've had experienced people in both state and federal government and all that has happened is the people have become COMPLIANT to the elected leaders. By my reading of the Constitution this isn't what the founding fathers had in mind when they formed this republic. YES a representative republic not a Democracy The citizenry was supposed to be able to communicate to the politicians and they in turn were supposed to be able to offer solutions to the peoples problems or concerns.
I've contacted my elected representative many times to express my desire for the "FairTax Act"(H.R. 25) to be implemented on the federal level so our nation can once again prosper and businesses will bring back the jobs to the United States. I don't believe my representative has even once heard my voice since he himself doesn't answer any calls.
Ever get the inclination you're being ignored? Welcome to the politics of the status quo. As a representative for the 139th I will answer the concerns of the constituents personally. That is a pledge to the people that elect me.
only YOU can change the direction of politics
VOTE
tom martz
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