Busy, Busy, Busy for You!

As with facebook, it has been also been 10 days since posting to my blog. Gaining the knowledge to be the best prepared and informed candidate for mayor has been, and will continue to be my highest priority.  Today I will write two blog postings.  In this post I will include the text to an advertisement I ran in yesterday's Herald.  It will run on Monday and Tuesday also.   

Before the somewhat lengthly, but important ad included below, I want to thank all of my supporters, friends, and members of the public who have shared their concerns, opinions, and ideas with me.  They know I will listen to the people of Jasper and serve thier best interest, not by the decisions I make, but by the decisions our citizens make.  I truly want to be know as the people's mayor.

Here is the text to my ad running in The Herald:

“Mack” (Jeffrey Mack) Steffen

The Uncommon Candidate for the Common Man wants you to know…

• If elected mayor, I will hit the ground running with an intimate understanding of the day to day operations of the city. I hit the ground running as a young kid and teen, working at the Dubois County Courthouse, buying my own clothes and other things not considered necessities. I hit the ground running in my late teens and worked my way into management and obtained two A.S. degrees from VUJC. I hit the ground running when I opened the largest, best, and fairest full service coin and precious metals shop in southern Indiana. I have hit the ground in running as the people’s representative for mayor of Jasper.

 • I will be prepared to hit the ground running as your mayor by gaining extensive knowledge of the day to day operation of the city by sitting down and talking with all city officials. I have already begun scheduling meetings with all the city managers, department heads, city employees, appointed officials, and city and county organizations. I will also be touring all of our city facilities for this exacting knowledge.

• I believe it is important that as your representative, I will be able to tell you I will have a better understanding of running the city government than the other candidates. Most importantly, your voices will be heard, and the majority will always decide the major issues facing the great city of Jasper.

• I have asked the local university and several civic organizations in Jasper to step forward and mediate debates between the candidates. Thus far, responses have not been positive. Reasons given to date from these organizations have been that they don’t see any benefit for their club in doing it, they do not have time because other activities are more important, and/or they do not want to become politically involved.

• I plead to the sense of civic duty to the citizens of Jasper that one of the many civic organizations or clubs will do their duty to the people of the Jasper and mediate debates among the candidates.

• I vow as your mayor to uphold our Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and Constitution, which begins “We the People”. It will be, ‘You the People’ to exercise your choice to elect the person who will represent your interests in all things.

• I believe you know where I and one of the other candidates stand on the biomass issue. I will be the first to publicly announce at this time we do not need a new library and I will be voting ‘NO’ on the referendum for it in November.

Website: www.mackformayor.com - Phone: 482-7025 (available 24/7) - Email: mackformayor@psci.net

Paid for by Mack for Mayor Committee, “Mack” (Jeffrey Mack) Steffen, Treasurer