Advocate. Educate. Elevate.
Vote Lou Ness for Woodstock City Council
Advocate | Policy and Practice to:
• Create a platform that reflects the concerns of working families and marginalized groups
• Assure reproductive choice for women and girls
• Promote solution-based ideas to end homelessness and reduce poverty
Educate | Securing Democracy:
• Provide opportunities to ensure constituents believe the sacred act of voting is secure
• Replace disinformation with truth
• Enroll community members around the importance of being engaged in community life
Elevate | Solutions to Address:
• Local solutions to difficult issues
• Transparency in government accountability across local and state bodies
• Promote Healthy communities, one neighborhood at a time
50 Years of Public Service
• Chaplain to People Living in gut-wrenching Poverty
Virtue
This word was meaningful in the 18th Century. Virtue was the core of public life and embraced by the First President, George Washington. Virtue meant putting the common good before one’s own interests. Virtue writes the historian Joyce Appleby, was the “lynchpin” of public life – that is the fastener that held together the structure. (First Principles, Thomas E. Ricks)
For me, returning to the intention of those early founders is a primary pillar of my campaign. I believe, putting the common good above personal interest has disappeared from the national and state discourse. I believe we make the most significant changes at the local level and have the greatest impact when we are concerned about the health and well-being of our neighbors. Throughout my career I have always put the common good above personal gain. The few times I strayed from this core value, I did so at my peril.