Thank You!

Now that the elections are over I want to thank all those who participated in the process for there efforts in helping us exercise our rights and obligation as citizens in selecting our leaders. Congratulations also to Wendy Hart who is now our school board representation. She has already started to make a difference in terms of transparency.

At the risk of leaving someone out thanks to:

• Wendy Hart, who was both a candidate and active vice-chair. Wow what an example
• Carin Hadley, our secretary who did a great job keeping us informed via her blog posts and Facebook updates.
• Rey Johnson, Ken Bushman, Jesse Adamson, Carin Hadley and Wendy Hart who spent time as county delegates meeting the candidates. Mike Bready and Terry Melendez who did the same for us as state delegates. All the delegates invested a lot of time on our behalf and made an effort to share their views and solicit our input. Thanks to Howard Siegel as well who was elected as a county delegate but, because of an unavoidable calendar conflict could not attend convention, bowed out and let Carin take his place as a delegate.
• Rey Johnson, Vern May, Carin Hadley, Karin Kinghorn, Sandy Williams, Devirl Barfuss, Becky Rainer, Ray Ellison, Rod Lisonbee, Gary Nixon, Janice Hymas and Kurt Holmestead who helped survey our precinct to ensure that the state voter info was correct and handed out registration forms.
• Ed Ludaescher who distributed literature to a lot of homes and donated his yard for campaign signs for an extended period of time. And Dorothy for putting up with it :)
• Jennifer Bengzten, Karin Hadley, and Suzanne Mann who helped organize our precinct garage sale Morgan Philpot.
• Mike and Lisa Olson for letting us use their garage and yard for the sale.
• Caitlin Bengtzen, Devon and Jason Kinghorn also helped with garage sale.
• The Bengtzens for being willing to host a campaign advisor from out of state for Morgan on very very short notice late one Friday night.
• Michael O'Halloren Teague Bengtzen, Caitlin Bengtzen and Vern May who helped with poll watching.
• Diane Kingston, Lon & Kaye Nally, Suzanne Mann, and Karen Kinghorn who helped with election day calls
• Mike Bready who sponsored the best primary debate between Tim Bridgewater and Mike Lee at Novell. 
• Ken Bushman, Rey Johnson, Jesse Adamson, Teague Bengtzen, Wendy Hart, Carin Hadley, and Vern May who helped staff the debate.
• Mike Olson who was a district captain for Morgan Philpot's campaign
• All those who let us use their fence or yards for large campaign signs: the Bengztens, Garrets, Thurmans, Hyatts, Johnsons (Rey and Carolyn), Olsons (Mike and Lisa), Herrons, Thelma Smith ... 
• Scott Hart gets a big thanks for editing the video of Morgan's visit to our precinct and creating 13 clips for us to put on YouTube. This was no small task and it was excellently done.
• Tim Aalders who had Morgan Philpot on his radio show multiple times and ran Morgan ads his show as well.
• Plus all of you who encouraged people to vote and shared your thoughts and opinions with your neighbors.

You all made a difference this year. I'm inspired by your involvement. Now we have to hold those elected accountable. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" as Jefferson said.