Your Most Important Votes
Your Most Important Votes
This election year is unlike any other we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Our great nation has been wracked and wrecked these past seven long and painful years in ways none of could have imagined when a young Senator named Barack Obama was elected to lead a destructive left-wing “fundamental transformation.”
This is the year “We the People” are struggling to assert a NEW American Revolution and win back the White House and Congress.
The signs are unmistakable: candidates who represent business-as-usual have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and are being soundly rejected and struggling. Candidates hated by “the establishment” are turning out huge crowds and winning votes and delegates nationwide.
I’d like to make the case that the most important that the most important 28 votes (25 for At-Large National Delegates and 3 for each Congressional District National Delegates) we will each cast this Saturday are for those who will help decide, in Cleveland, the fate of the Grand Old Party and thus America.
This may be our last chance this year to save our deeply divided country, culture, and party from the inevitable ruin of abandoning the God of our Fathers and the Constitution that has united us as states and as We the People.
Please consider, however, what we’re up against. We’re as deeply divided as a party as we are a nation. We need to return to the common ground of the principles that unite us and not stay rooted in the self-interest that divides us.
1) There are powerful factions within our Party who believe that money – in the form of buying advertising and signatures – should be all that is necessary to win elections and thus perpetuate the perks and power they enjoy by gaining and holding office. They seem to believe in their own goodness and greatness, and that our caucus system is a relic to be worked around. This faction is powerfully entrenched in the party in the State and Federal Government – let’s just call it “The Establishment” for convenience.
2) There is another group who are honestly devoted to the caucus system and love the same Constitutional principles of liberty and justice that made our Republic great, but have bought into a big lie – the delusion of “electability.” These people believe that someone devoted to the traditional principles of Constitutional conservatism is unelectable. They believe that our nominee needs to be half-devoted to those “extreme” principles, but halfway “reasonable” to appeal to “low-information voters.” This is the kind of moderate who so desperately wants to “win in November” that they adopt the kind of thinking that would have made them lukewarm about the Reagan Revolution until it was already successful.
3) Traditionally, in Utah, delegates to the National Convention have been those with recognizable names who hold state and local offices – including many from groups 1) and 2) – but also party regulars, hard-working volunteers, and even long-time civic servants who love the same-principles you and I do. You’ll find these folks on a variety of slates put together by the party regulars who have been at this a long time and know that the secret to winning the election and going to convention has always been to get on as many slates as possible, even if that means creating your own.
However, it has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. This is NOT the year to cast your precious votes for National Delegate based on the same old tired formula of cronyism as reflected in slates, and taking the easy way out of letting someone else decide your vote based on any given slate.
This is the year you can change everything. Identify candidates for National Delegate who will bring fresh thinking to the convention, who are passionate about principle but who have no political ambition to move up the ranks in the party, and who are revolutionaries in the best sense of the word.
Proposed slates can have value in helping you fill out the list of National Delegates / Ballot Numbers (e.g. #324) you will vote for, but voting for everyone on any straight slate can be a dangerous surrender of your duty to those who elected you to use your best judgment in casting your votes. Rarely should any one factor be the deciding factor for you for all 28 key votes. Vote your informed conscience – not a slate.
Do what your precinct elected you to do – vet the candidates and vote for those you find who best represent your values and principles. That matters most.
Please click on the link below to read my blog post: “Guide To Decide Who to Send to Cleveland.”
http://whos4us.com/national-delegate-voting-guide-utah-sta…/
4) The National Delegates you elect have voting power and personal discretion beginning with the second round. Be sure you vote only for those who have demonstrated good judgment in assessing candidates and share your belief about who will make the best candidate and who has the best chance of uniting the party and being elected in November.
Please click on the link below to ready my blog post: “The Case for Cruz.”
http://whos4us.com/the-case-for-cruz/
5) In addition to being a reliable vote for or against certain candidates and having the good judgment to vote on rules, platform, and other potentially contentious issues this year, try to identify and vote for those candidates who have special skills and abilities that will contribute to the success of our delegation.
In particular, I’d like to ask for your vote if you believe that your ideal delegate should have a strong background in the persuasive arts and in media relations – because those skills could very well make a difference in influence other delegates in key states who can influence their state delegations, and even make a difference in the national media in how votes and candidates are perceived.
I’ve been down this road before – as IBM’s first dedicated online PR Representative / Evangelist in the ‘90s. I’ve been a guest lecturer at Duke and BYU as the author of a visionary book titled “Cyberspace: The Human Dimension.” I have 30+ years of PR and online marketing experience. I’ve been an online communications pioneer since the early ‘90s.
I will use my skills and connections to communicate with you from the floor of the convention. I will leverage my skills and extensive experience and connections (see www.linkedin.com/in/davewhittle) to give you an amplified voice.
I’ll help like-minded souls unite in a NEW American Revolution to take back the national dialogue and narrative from the dishonest and biased in the media. I’ve done this before. I started what one national magazine called an “Ethical Revolution” within IBM – which eventually led to the resignation of IBM’s CEO. I also started a worldwide movement named Team OS/2 – see Wikipedia. I’ve been featured, mentioned, or quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the L.A. Times, Deseret News, NPR, and many others.
Why am I running if I have no political ambitions? That’s an easy question to answer: Because I have 12 grandchildren I love, and because I try to love all of my brothers and sisters and even my enemies, and this is the right thing to do for them – if I can pull it off with your help. If delegates choose the same-old-same-old, I can at least hold my head up high that I gave it my best shot.
I would be grateful for your vote for David Whittle, Ballot #324, as one of your 3 votes for National Delegate Congressional District 3.
If I’m elected, I’ll be in touch about how we can work together to make a difference. Out of small things come great things.
Cheers!
Dave Whittle, 801-489-0605, www.linkedin.com/in/davewhittle