Questions for School Board candidates

We are quickly approaching the next local election cycle, that being for School Board. The Van Buren Tea Party will be offering video interviews to all school board candidates that get on the ballot.

It is our intention to ask a standardized set of questions in each interview and post the interviews in their entirety, or in an unedited sequence as we are limited in video time with you tube.

We would like to keep these questions within the core principles of the Tea Party, fiscal responsibility, constitutional government, and free markets. This may be difficult given the multitude of problems facing our local schools, as well as the limitations placed on the local school board.

We are seeking input on what questions you would like to see asked at these interviews. Feel free to add your questions below this posting as anonymous.

R.B.

We the People

The consent of the governed

The Declaration of Independence states that “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. that consent is most plainly expressed at the ballot box on election day. It is our civic duty to exercise that right, otherwise that consent is granted to our elected officials by a very few, the power to tax, spend, regulate, and govern over all of us is controlled by an elite group who vote. This is the cycle that has repeated itself time and again simply because “we the people” have failed in our responsibility to our selves, our families, and our community. The Declaration of Independence goes on to state, “whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it”. No institution of Government could possibly fit this description any better than our school boards. Schools no longer serve to educate our kids to the highest standard we can afford. Schools instead focus on indoctrinating the kids in socialism, the green movement, and a bizarre form of tolerance, all the while showing intolerance to anyone who questions the programs. Thanks to the unions we now spend more money than we can afford to employ as many administrators and union members as possible, with no regard for their performance on the job. It is only through the actions of we the people that this cycle will be broken. We must find the best possible candidates for these positions by paying attention to what they stand for. We must educate our friends and neighbors as to which candidates have all of our best interest in mind. We must get out the vote. We must pay attention to when the elections are held and tell everyone all day long of their responsibility as citizens of a free state to help in getting the right people elected. If we cannot “alter” what is going on within the existing process, we will be forced to abolish it by other means.