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Subject: Candidate for NWPL-CC position
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:36:17 -0500
From: bluebear <bluebear(a)new.rr.com>
To: Mike Sweeney <sweeney2(a)wolfenet.com>
I'd appreciate your forwarding my email to the Washington list. Thank you.
Greta Thompson
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Hello, I'm Greta Thompson, a candidate for the position of an NWPL-CC
position on the USGenWeb Advisory Board.
Like many of you, I'd prefer to focus on my counties and my local
project and shut out the storms swirling in and around the project. Who
needs it? Not you, not me. I'll do the best I can in my little corner,
and that's enough.
Only it isn't. If we don't speak up, we let the cynics dominate. We give
prominence to the negative and the divisive. We need better things to
listen to and think about, and those positive, motivating,
community-making words and, more importantly, actions have to come from us.
That's why, when I was hoping to settle comfortably into my rocking
chair for a few quiet years, I'm runnng for a place on the AB. If things
are going to get better, I can't say, "Yeah, go for it, I'll be cheering
from the sidelines." And I can't say, "Okay, okay, I'll do it." I
can
only say, "I'll try to do my part, but you have to help too."
The first thing we can do together is vote. I'd welcome your vote and
the opportunity to serve on the AB. But whoever you vote for, just be
sure you do vote.
Greta
You'll find my campaign page, and those of other candidates, at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/national-2006/meet.htm
and you can find me at bluebear(a)new.rr.com.