Good Morning...

It is day 2 of the official filing period, and for the next few weeks the potential candidates will be meeting with the city clerk to pull their nomination papers. My appointment is on July 20th. I am looking forward to the two hour meeting, each step is part of the learning process to really understand our city council. Remember..."put one step in front of the other..."

Soooo... let me recap for you what has happened so far:

Last summer someone had the not so brilliant idea that downtown did not need a community library,but we needed a huge preforming arts center. That upset me, I volunteered at that library when I was 12...spent a lot of time there reading and checking out books,Encyclopedia Brown books were some of my favorite. Thankfully HBDRA was there!

Fast forward to March 2010... I decided to file my intent to run for city council.

Since filing my intent, I have been contacted by different groups within our community... HBDRA, R4RD,HBT,Lincoln Club. A couple journalists... Dave G. and Michael M. I tell ya, the most memorable experience to date was at a town hall meeting when another potential candidate came up to introduce himself and the first thing out of his mouth was..Hi, I'm so and so and I'm running against you...I responded there are 4 seats available how do you know we are running against each other instead of with each other.

... What have I gotten myself into???

Andrissa ;)