REMEMBER: This Friday, 16 February 2024, 5 p.m. is the deadline for filing your application to run for one of three (3) City Council seats in the 04 May 2024 City Municipal Election.
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
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Elections 2024, Run for 04 May Willow Park Municipal Election
Index: Filing Dates documents and procedures; Why run for City Office.
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Winston Churchill
"We are made wise, not by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility for our future."
George Bernard Shaw
How
Willow Park Citizens have until 16 February, 2024, Friday at 5:00 p.m. to file an application to run for the following City Council Seats:
Councilmember Place No. 3. incumbent Lea Young
Councilmember Place No. 4. incumbent Greg Runnebaum
Councilmember Place No. 5. incumbent Nathan Crummel
The term for Councilmember Place No. 3, Councilmember Place No. 4, and Councilmember Place No. 5 are for a term of two years, ending May 2026.
• City of Willow Park (#3)
Why
Someone suggested, to bookend the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, there should be a Statue of Responsibilities off the US West Coast, to remind us that our Citizen rights will only be available if we also implement our Citizen responsibilities.
The United States “Founding Fathers” used the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution to document the Bill of Rights for US Citizens.
The Founders continued to document the responsibilities that accompany these rights -- the two foundational obligations each citizen is obliged to perform. These Citizen obligations maintain Citizen rights.
First, each Citizen had a duty to stay informed of the civic issues affecting the community in order be an educated and informed voting participant, and to engage in civil discourse at all levels: local, state, and national.
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to W. C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
”Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted with their own government."
Thomas Jefferson
Second, each Citizen has a duty to actively participate in government.
• Participate in the democratic process.
• Participate in your local community.
• Support and defend the Constitution.
• Respect and obey federal, state, and local laws.
• Respect the rights, opinions, and beliefs of others.
• Pay income and other taxes honestly, on time, to federal, state, and local authorities.
• Serve on a jury when called.
• Defend the country if the need should arise.
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains
to bring it to light."
George Washington
Willow Park Civics Research
• Willow Park Civics Blog > Elections 2024, May Willow Park Municipal Election posted 16 January 2024,
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• Texas Secretary of State > Running for a Local Office
• Ballotpedia > How to Run for Office in Texas (State or Federal) In order to get on the ballot in Texas, a candidate for state or federal office must meet a variety of state-specific filing requirements and deadlines. These regulations, known as ballot access laws, determine whether a candidate or party will appear on an election ballot. These laws are set at the state level. A candidate must prepare to meet ballot access requirements well in advance of primaries, caucuses, and the general election.
• Party Involvement
You can be a delegate to the Republican State Convention!, Republican Party of Texas
• John Jay and the Constitutional Convention of 1787: Editorial Note, National Archives, Founders Online
• "it has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved, that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their very figure deformity."
Alexander Hamilton, Speech to Congress, June 21, 1788
• "When annual elections end, there slavery begins.”
John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
• “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to W. C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
• “The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Hunter, 1790
• “A government of laws, and not of men.”
John Adams, Novanglus Papers, 1774
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