Life Matters

In this episode, Commissioner Johnston examines, along with Stephen Frank, the upcoming local elections on the November ballot.  In every one of California's 58 counties there are local, city and county elections. Whether it be for supervisor, school board, City Council, Mayor or special districts such as library district, junior college district, water districts, even fire districts. Many are anxiously looking to the national elections and often feel helpless as they 'observe' from afar. But in point of fact, 'All politics are local." There are literally thousands of important offices that often go uncontested or are intentionally captured by big government bureaucrat types who seek to use government position to herd citizens according to their social inclinations. The value of the human individual is minimized and often dismissed by those who see the State as the arbiter of right and wrong. Much of our current cultural confusion is due to the fact that those who have solid moral, ethical and cultural values