Got out to Westland on other side of Wildwood on another muggy but lower temperature day. Did get to talk to some folks. One lady relayed her fear for where the country was headed. She was very concerned about the moral direction of the country. Another older woman said that she didn't vote and was leaving it in God's hands. If you know someone who feels like the second lady does perhaps you, as a friend or family member, can convince them that they need to help get the country headed back in the right direction by voting for the right people. God has given us free will which we can practice in this country to make good, moral choices.
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Was invited and participated in this well moderated event. Questions were first asked by the 3 sponsors of the event, followed by questions from the moderator, and finishing with written questions from those in attendance. Questions were excellent at seeing who the candidates were and where they stood on a wide range of issues. Replay of the event should be on the Western Wayne County NAACP Facebook page. Great way to do your due diligence. Here's a link. https://www.facebook.com/wwcnaacp/videos/1219401592570027
Headed back to the Wayne and Wick roads area of Romulus. Shaded area with windy roads and a departure from the local standard, North/South and East/West street grid patterns. Appreciate the offer of water about 2/3 of the way through the campaign walk. Temperature was decent but that humidity made it challenging again. Thanks to the other resident who followed up with me to make sure that he had a way to contact me for questions. He is doing his due diligence. Something that everyone must do for every election. Our future depends upon it.
Do have lawn signs available. Probably more important for the general election than the primary. However, if you would like one, especially if you're near a polling area or on a major street or road, fill out the contact page. You can also email me direct at jeffgorman4noregrets@gmail.com.
Was out in Garden City again today in the Ford and Merriman roads area. Very pretty area with some spacious lots shaded by huge trees. Not as many folks around on a SUN morning but did manage to talk to a few. One lady told me how much of a burden the economy has placed on her and her children. The American dream of owning their own house seems distant for them at this time. She sees problem both at the state and federal level. She was also distraught at the great divide among US citizens. She said we needed divine intervention to get us back on track. Could not have agreed with her more.
Back in Garden City today. Campaigned in an area with a lot of apartments. Talked to some very enthusiastic folks at the end of the trail. One had flown a flag on his house. His window was shattered with a rock and he received anonymous, threatening and insulting mail. Is this what society has come down to? The people targeted definitely want a change in Lansing and, if elected, I will give them the voice to effect it.
Continued in the city today. Found my way on to Clair Ave and Betty Lane. Great little tree shaded streets with winding lanes. Also cruised down similarly treed Grandview. More interesting conversations with some folks out and about. One over the top conversation with a man who believes all politicians are "liars and scumbags" and that is why he doesn't vote. Reminded him that not voting is what has caused local, state, and federal government to devolve into agencies staffed by self servers and not public servants. Do your due diligence and find the people out to serve you. Then VOTE!!!
Good to be in the old neighborhood where I lived from birth through 5th grade. Thanks to the homeowner that spruced up our old home on Glenwood making it look the best it has been in years. Thanks to the other homeowners in the area who are working hard to make the neighborhood welcome and inviting. Some good conversation with some about the state of the state and the nation.
Worth a few minutes of your time.
In Congress, July 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton North Carolina William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Massachusetts John Hancock Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Pennsylvania Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire Matthew Thornton
Took on the brutal humidity today and hit the trail in SE corner of Westland, south of Cherry Hill and east of Wildwood. Got to meet a few of you today as you were coming and going on errands. Some folks did come to the door as well.
Wonderful to meet you. Hope you stayed cool today.
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Went out campaigning door to door in the Romulus portion of the district. Visited homes between Van Born and Beverly, west of a gated community up to and including Fourth St. A lot of nice homes on spacious lots with a couple of parks. Plenty of trees and vegetation.
Fortunate to meet a few people on this early Sunday day enjoying a break in the heat. Most folks that I spoke with were very open minded and pleasant.
Last house I visited, I met a young man, originally from the area but now residing in the Lansing area. Believe that he was an owner/operator of a flat bed truck. We had a good discussion on the role of government and what it should be. He noted how the trucking industry was adversely affected during the scamdemic and with this administration's installation of the Green New Deal on day one. Told him that stopping government interference in business and in our lives would be a priority if sent to Lansing as a representative.