PICTURED: Troy Miller,
Brenda Walker, Elie Evens and Candidate for House District 95 and former state
employee, Mike Walker.
It’s
not easy getting out of bed on a weekend morning to spend your day going door
to door talking with voters about the importance of voting for an OPEAPAC
endorsed candidate. Former Board member Troy Miller and co-worker Elie Evens
have spent their second weekend along with other OPEA activists in important
political races and describes why volunteering valuable free time is hard—but
necessary.
Why do OPEA
members and their families get up on Saturday mornings to work on behalf of
OPEAPAC candidates? They have the same inclination to want to sleep in on the
weekend or get the long list of personal errands done. So why did some state
employees come out on Saturdays to knock doors or hand out literature?
When people
ask me that question, I think about how I will be helping inform voters and
their families about the upcoming election and our endorsed candidates who are
fighting for state employees and improving our state services. At stake this
election are dozens of state legislative races, and we have the opportunity to
take back the state Legislature for working families.
And then I go
out on the neighborhood walks.
I meet and talk
to families and I hear their stories about working harder every year just to
keep from falling behind and how they wonder how their children will ever be
able to do as well as they have, let alone dream about doing better. I am
reminded that we are walking for our families, having a say in our future;
having a chance at getting ahead and not fighting so hard just to break
even.
So really it
is simple. We are walking for our
Association. We are walking for our
families. We are walking for each other
and a better future.
Who are you going to be
walking for this Saturday?
Posted on
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
by Mark Beutler