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Imagine you are rich, filthy, stinking rich. Happily so. What do you do with the money? You open a business. But you're rich and have other things to do, so you hire people to manage the business. You hire managers, supervisors, thinkers, workers, laborers, you hire everyone you need to operate that business. But then, down the road a little, something strange happens. Half of the folks you hired won't speak to the other half. They form sides, divisions, groups, and will not

I have been approached and reprimanded by friends and family members of both parties, republicans and democrats, who believe that I will take enough votes from their side and allow the other side to win. This is half true. It is my intention to get votes from both sides, plus those independents out there, and win. That is the plan. Let me be clear, I will take votes from both sides, not to upset the vote for the opposition, but to win outright. That is the plan. On a side not

We have been practicing politics in this country backwards for some time now. Decades, at least. We have two very large political parties that gather themselves together from time to time and decide on a platform. The platform for these parties is the agenda, the ideology, it's what they want to do, what they want to accomplish, it's their stand on whatever issues are forefront. And the voter, when they get to the ballot box, choose the candidate based on their party and the

My only boss will be the residents of district 96. I will be the voice of district 96, not the party voice, not hold the seat for the party, not for control, not for majority, nor for opposition. Not to lead, but to serve. To serve the people, not a party. To serve those who live in district 96, and no one else, they're the boss.