
| Why I am Running |
| Written by Todd Sharkey |
| Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:48 |
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Over the past several years, I have watched a number of my friends lose their jobs. They have struggled to find new employment here in Northeast Ohio. And our representatives and leaders are only concerned with getting re-elected. We need representatives that understand it is a privilege for them to represent their constituents, and not that we are privileged to be represented by them.
My wife, friends, and I are concerned for the future of our children and grandchildren. We need to restore the greatness of our country. I know with the help of others I can serve the people of the 13th district. Together, we can make the changes needed to preserve a better future. In order to achieve this goal, we need leaders that will stand for the principles that made this country great. I am in this race because I believe the principles I have learned from my father, friends, and mentors make me the best candidate for this time. |
As a Constitutional Conservative representing the people of Northeast Ohio...
I pledge to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America by enacting legislation and reform that will protect the freedom of the American people and limit the power of the federal government.
I will endeavor to protect the liberties of the American people.
I pledge to begin working toward a federal government that will reestablish the rights of the people and the states as they are protected within the Constitution through the 10th Amendment.

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
-President Ronald Reagan
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding."
- Louis D. Brandeis