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Volunteer Opportunity: Affect NE Unicameral District 46 – Walk for Chad Wright SATURDAY

Click to visit Chad Wright's election website

As Linda noted in her article “2010 Election NE Unicameral: Show These 3 Senators the Door“, we’ve learned over the last year and a half through working on and researching legislative issues in Nebraska that the quality of our legislators is in definite need of improvement.

Of course, election time is the opportunity to make that happen. Candidates require all kinds of help ranging from donations to volunteers.

There are still plenty of opportunities to provide the assistance needed before November 2 and we wanted to point out that District 46 candidate for the NE Unicameral, Chad Wright, is looking for volunteers for the last stretch in his campaign, particularly for SATURDAY, October 23, at 10am.

Those interested in distributing Chad’s campaign literature within his district by walking door to door on Saturday are asked to meet in the Walgreen’s parking lot at the corner of 27th & Vine Streets.

Those interested in helping who cannot make it on Saturday or wish to help in some other way, can contact Chad’s campaign manager, Ryan Post. ryan [at] electchadwright [dot] com or 402-269-7339.

It is important, once again to note that GiN does not formally endorse particular candidates. We urge all voters to do their own homework and investigate candidates for themselves. We are putting Chad Wright forward as a candidate we believe is worth considering for the Legislature because from our conversati0ns with him and the information available to us, his principles appear to be consistent with GiN’s mission statement and overall principles.

It is important to reiterate that we will be monitoring elected officials, including our State Senators. Should any Senator vote in ways that are inconsistent with our mission statement or principles, we will not hesitate to publicly point it out, regardless of whether or not we brought that individual’s candidacy to the attention of our readers and members.

In addition to checking out Chad’s election website (click on the image above), an additional source of information available that might be worth looking at is the Journal Star’s Voter’s Guide.

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts