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Welcome!
To those of you who are visiting this site for the first time, I have some disappointing information to share with you. My campaign for governor as an independent is over. (For the background and details, see
"Release #14: Failed Campaign Effort", which is under the black tab to the left,
"News Flash". There is more on the subject of ballot access in
Release #11: Ballot Access. These are eye-openers you should read.
Nonetheless, the graphics on this page are misleading. I am no longer a candidate for governor of the State of Georgia for the general election in November because I failed to collect nearly 40,000 signatures that are required to obtain ballot access.
However, the end of this campaign is the beginning of another. Many Georgians have expressed an interest in and have encouraged me to lead the fight to change Georgia's restrictive ballot access laws. I have decided to do so.
I hope you will decide to join the effort. If you do, you will not be alone. There are hundreds across the state who will be your partners.
But, that doesn't explain my rationale for keeping this website active. I could have, and some will say I should have, taken this website off the world wide web and simply created another on ballot access. True, but…….
I chose to keep this website active until after the general elections in November for two reasons. One is to use it as a tool to promote the ballot access initiative. It will take time and money to create another web site. In time, that will be done.
The other is for you to use this website as a source of reference to press the debate on many issues that affect your life and the lives of your loved ones.
Under the section "Georgia: Where Are We Now?" are pages of research. However, you should know that it is dated. I completed writing it in July '05. It wasn't posted to the website until Oct '05. Though it is dated, all of the problems I address are as bad as they were then, or have worsened. All, that is, except the revenue situation in the state. Elevated fuel prices, generous pay raises to hundreds of thousands of state and local government employees (which results in generous increases in income taxes to the state), sales tax increases due to very aggressive automobile incentive programs twice during this tax year and the last throes of the housing boom explain most of the increases in tax revenues.
Under the section "John's Vision for Georgia" very little has changed. They were good ideas when I wrote them. They are good ideas today.
The point is this. It is all there for you to become as informed from an apolitical perspective as you desire. There is no benefit to me. It remains there for you.
Having said that, I will close with a final line of thought.
If you want it to return to government of the people, by the people and for the people, you must get "in" the game. You can no longer be content with being "at" the game. The "game" is about how Georgia is governed.
It's your Georgia. You can make it the state you want it to be, or it will remain the way it is.
Thank you for your interest.
John Dashler
Citizen of Georgia
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