POST SCRIPTS

That's why, as a life-long Republican and after serving in every position of our Central Committee, including Chairman, and being active at the State level when I served on the Crime and the Justice Committee and now as a CRA member I knew we needed to make some fundamental changes in how we elect people. Because the old way wasn't serving the interests of the people, in fact it is just the opposite, it was serving the special interests.

So, here I am, taking a stand against what I see is an encroaching threat to our free elections. I am doing that by how I BEHAVE in THIS election and I am taking the moral high road at every opportunity.

Now consider that to run for the State Assembly takes a lot of money, about $500k, sometimes twice that, depending on the opposition. This daunting financial part gives voters the perception the candidate was bought and paid for before his first day in office! It also has the effect of pushing too many potentially great candidates right out of the running before they even have a chance to be heard. This is really wrong on a fundamental level!

Our government "of the people and by the people" is becoming more like an exclusive membership club where the price of admission is a little bit of your soul and we just can't keep marching down this dead end road.

Since I started running I discovered the process of [candidate] selection" by those [in] power was based more on what the candidate could [do for them] or [had done for them] than what he could do for the people. That’s not good for democracy is it? No, and the results speak for themselves...look at the dismal performance coming from Sacramento!

For too many years elections have manipulated and as a result they have not been producing the kind of good, independent candidate that we desperately need. Haven't you ever wondered why?

This victory of the ad men has resulted in a failure at the ballot box and that has not only resulted in waste and corruption scandals, it's threatening our very future. That part pushed me into this race!

In your heart of hearts you must know what I am saying is true.

I CHOSE to run a low budget campaign and simple campaign, not because I was FORCED to do it. But because I needed to do it to restore some of that lost trust and distain for politicians. I need to demonstrate by example that I can make do with less now so I can make do with less later in Sacramento! My intention is to run hard, take risks, be blunt, discuss in detail the tough issues and listen to the people. And to do all this without a coach or a net.

Example: Nobody wrote this for me...this is me talking to y-o-u.

Sure, I will make mistakes and I will tick people off, but then what you see is exactly what you will get. And the best part is anything you need to know about me and my thoughts are all out here on the net for anyone to see. I've published well over 500 articles on good government in just the last 3 years.

Who else has expressed themselves so openly while raising questions and giving answers?

That being said, the bottom line is my loyalties are with the people first, the party second and all else a distant 3rd. I can't do it any other way.

California is facing a real crisis in border security, economics, education and even at the cultural level that defines who we are as a people. To win we need the best minds with the highest standards we can get in Sacramento, not the best fund raisers nor the best avoiders of tough issues or controversy.

It will take a certain amount of courage for voters to depart from the old "status quo" campaigns of the past that we've come to expect and support a new ethical campaign like ours, but I'm trusting the people will come through for us. So much is riding on the outcome.

Jack Lee
Candidate for the 3rd Assembly District

PS Thank you Aaron for the nudge to put my thoughts down. I look forward to meeting you and other Republicans in Placer County very soon.