Dark side of Politics in Elections

Elections should be a fair, clean and transparent process, with healthy debate about divergent perspectives or platforms.

Different perspectives should be embraced. Having multiple perspectives at our Council table is important and usually make for better decision making.

However- when elections become marred with lies and misinformation, with people choosing to make a fake profile to share a malicious video, or call citizens to pick up a magazine that has negative stories in it about a candidate - to tear at a person’s character to try to make another candidate look better - this is the Dark Side of politics and we need to reject it.

I was very honest when I spoke out about the Dark Side of politics and my experiences with it.

Unfortunately, the Dark Side is occurring during this election.

I am asking our citizens and our candidates to Publicly reject this kind of politics – To Publicly Reject the strategies employed that are meant to derail, humiliate, and annihilate a person’s character or credibility.

I ask our citizens to choose their Mayor and Council based on truth, experience, work record, their platforms, how involved they are in the community, and the job YOU think they will do in 2020-2024.

When people campaign AGAINST someone using dehumanizing political tactics instead of campaigning FOR a candidate - we ALL lose as a community.

Please stand with me against this kind of negative and divisive politics - it hurts us all and turns friends and family into enemies. I will continue to reject it - and stay strong - and I hope citizens and candidates will do the same

Please stand against “The Dark Side of Politics”!

If people are telling you “negative things” about a person instead of differences in platform ideas or campaign issues - Tell Them To STOP!

The Dark Side of Politics is not welcome in our community - in any form!

I hope you all stand with me on this, both citizens and candidates.