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Blog | Thank You and Congratulations to Mike Bonin

Thank you and congratulations to Mike Bonin on becoming our council member.

It is with tremendous gratitude that I move forward today – gratitude for the people now in our family’s life, for the knowledge I’ve acquired, and for the opportunity to participate in our democratic process. Over the past 6 months, I was permitted nearly unfettered access to our community and its people as we engaged in thousands of conversations on thousands of doorsteps, sidewalks, restaurants, and street corners.

Thank you to all of the people who invested their time and money in our campaign. Everything in life is more successful, effective, and farther reaching when it comes from a community of people and I am honored to say that we were blessed with the insights and efforts of some very amazing people.

I wish to send my congratulations to Mike Bonin. His success is a direct result of tremendous focus, patience, and insight while employing shrewd strategy and ample resources in his campaign to win this position. I personally admire his efforts to win and believe that our community will blossom under his hand if his actions in council are even 1/10th what he showed during the campaign.

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I voiced many criticisms during our campaign and hold no regrets for those because they’re rooted in honest issues that have plagued our community too long. But, now that the choice has been made and our complaints heard, it’s time for our community to support our new councilmember’s efforts to help bring consensus back to our community.

Winston Churchill once infamously said, “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

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As a culture, we have come to a point in history where partisan battles never cease and the result is a perpetual state of politicking – a culture of government that is constantly posturing and that allows no room for compromise or progress.

Mike Bonin’s desire to serve is earnest and I urge anyone who supported the tenets of my campaign to come together and help him serve us. We have a potentially powerful councilmember representing us. Moving forward, let’s remember that his successes are now our successes.

As for me, I will regroup, dissect our successes and failures form this campaign, and march forward with more insight and experience into the next challenge - knowing how wonderful the people in my community are.

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