The American Form of Government

Meet the Candidates Questions

1. How are you at managing your own finances?
2. What, in your opinion, is the proper role of government? How would you live the proper role of government as a mayor or city council member?
3. Would you be willing to cut spending and how would you do it? What is wasteful spending?
4. Would you be willing to save money toward a purchase before you buy something?
5. What responsibility, if any, does a city have to provide a recreation center or something similar?
6. How do you think city employees’ salaries should be determined?
7. When would it be necessary to change an ordinance voted by the citizens of your city?
8. What in your viewpoint was the vision of the founding fathers?
9. Why do you love America and what can you do to preserve the freedoms we enjoy here?
10. Would you be willing to dramatically lower taxes?


To Cedar Hills candidates specifically:

About the recreation center:
• What is your stance on building a recreation center?
• What responsibility will Cedar Hills citizens have to maintain it?
• A recreation center will compete against private enterprise, why should a city government own and run one?
• Would you be in favor of working with a private business instead of the city owning a rec. center?
• Would you want to work with other cities?

About the Golf Course

(From me) I am a big Dave Ramsey fan and believe in his philosophy. Would you be willing to put the city on rice and beans and beans and rice (in other words cut spending dramatically) and aggressively pay off the golf course bond?

City council salaries

Would you be willing to cut city council salaries that were raised last year?

An Insult to our Republic

Rally for Liberty

On July 23, 2009, we had a rally at at the Cedar Hills Heritage Park. Ken Sumsion of the Patrick Henry spoke to us and shared his thoughts on what we can do to change things in our country's government.

He said:

Send emails to all of our elected officials and let them know how we feel. Send personal but brief emails.

Get involved in State Caucuses.

Stand up and let your voice be heard!

The Patrick Henry Caucus

Even as we stand to salute our American flag, our freedoms are being taken from us in a massive, unprecedented power grab from the federal government. Who could have foreseen the swiftness and boldness with which such change has come?
Citizens are crying out for leadership to unite and act to preserve individual freedoms. We believe this is best done at the state level. Our strategy is simple. We must petition our local state legislators to oppose the overreach of the federal government and uphold the Constitution. We must tell them that we expect them to work with their fellow lawmakers to pass state legislation to accomplish this.
We of the Patrick Henry Caucus are committed to unite, as citizens and lawmakers across our great nation, to take action at this critical time. We urge you to contact your State Legislators and Congressmen to ask that they join with us in our modern states' rights movement. The Patrick Henry Caucus will continue to lead this great movement to restore the powers being usurped by the federal government to the individual states, and to the people.